The Cowboys are trying to fix their foundering defense on the fly and save their season, with fans and analysts alike trying to figure out everything from where Pettine will be stationed on gameday (the coaches’ booth) to who he reports to (Brian Schottenheimer, not Parker) to what exactly his job will entail. “I think the role will just kind of grow as it goes,” Pettine admitted. “Football’s a game of a million little things. There’s no one magic play to run. It’s a lot of the detail stuff. There’s been taking a lot of notes; it’s not something where, ‘Hey, we’re going to do these 30 things different today,’ but it’s things that need to get addressed.”
