It is a small thing. To fans of most NFL teams it appears it is a mundane thing when it happens to them.<\/p>\n
On Saturday afternoon it was reported that the Dallas Cowboys have informed their defensive assistants, those who worked under previous defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus, that they have permission to look for jobs elsewhere and they can interview with new defensive coordinator Christian Parker.<\/p>\n
By definition it is an innocuous thing. The staffers who report to the defensive coordinator are not guaranteed to hold the jobs that they did with the new coordinator that they did with the old. Acknowledging that people losing their jobs is never a good thing, and that we wish all of these staffers the best of luck in their future endeavors whatever they hold, this is not an innocuous or mundane thing when it comes to the Cowboys.<\/p>\n
Consider that the previous defensive coordinator who we have mentioned in Matt Eberflus partly got the job because of his past relationship with the Cowboys front office. Consider that the current head coach was a holdover from the previous one (who was named the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday, by the way<\/a>). Maybe you could consider that at one point in time almost 20 years ago the Cowboys hired their offensive coordinator before their head coach and that the OC in question was someone who (gasp!) had a history with the team in having played for them.<\/p>\n The TL;DR of this mess is that allowing a newbie (shout out Scrubs) to join the party and call the shots is not exactly how the Dallas Cowboys have chosen to do business. And yet here we are. Christian Parker hasn\u2019t even been the team\u2019s defensive coordinator long enough to have business cards printed up and he is being given full autonomy to act as he wishes in the position that he holds. What a breath of fresh air sort of thing!<\/p>\n