{"id":115499,"date":"2026-01-08T13:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115499\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:54:17","slug":"dallas-cowboys-news-team-lists-attributes-of-new-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115499\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys news: Team lists attributes of new defensive coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYeah, it [the conversation] was great. Actually, Tyler and I just had it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=URzngQdak_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Schottenheimer said<\/a>. \u201cI was explaining to him, \u2018Hey, we feel that you\u2019re an incredible all-decade type guard, but at the end of the day, you\u2019re such a good player that we have to play the five best guys.\u2019 In no way, shape, or form do I think we can\u2019t with a full year of Nate Thomas and those guys, getting those guys going.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBut Smith wants some direction, I said, \u2018Right now, you\u2019re a guard,\u2019 but at the end of the day, we\u2019re going to do what\u2019s best for the Dallas Cowboys, winning a Super Bowl,\u201d Schottenheimer added. \u201cJust like we did last three games, if we have to move you to tackle, we will. What I love about that is Tyler and I were able to have that conversation, and he\u2019s like, \u2018Makes perfect sense, I understand.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Smith\u2019s versatility is impressive and he\u2019s still extremely young, meaning he should be a key cog for years to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBy the way, that\u2019s why he\u2019s a core piece going forward and why we wanted to sign him,\u201d Stephen Jones added. \u201cI mean, versatility is huge when you can have a player that can be the best guard in the league and also swing out there and play to a Pro Bowl caliber level at tackle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYeah, it [the conversation] was great. Actually, Tyler and I just had it,\u201d Schottenheimer said. \u201cI was explaining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,932,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-115499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys-news","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}