{"id":146405,"date":"2026-02-01T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146405\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:26:10","slug":"dallas-cowboys-news-mock-drafts-defensive-coaches-salary-cap-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146405\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys news: Mock drafts, defensive coaches, salary cap details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">FRISCO, Texas \u2013 Christian Parkers\u2019 inaugural staff as a defensive coordinator is coming together, as the Cowboys hired Derrick Ansley to be their DBs coach\/defensive pass game coordinator and Ryan Smith to be their secondary coach. Yesterday, the Cowboys and Smith, the former Arizona Cardinals cornerbacks coach, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascowboys.com\/news\/cowboys-to-hire-ryan-smith-from-cardinals-for-parker-s-staff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were working towards<\/a> a deal and it was finalized on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Ansley, the former Packers pass game coordinator, interviewed with the team earlier in the week and officially signed with the Cowboys on Saturday as well. Both coaches have ties to the collegiate and professional ranks, as Ansley spent time coaching at Northwestern, Virginia Tech and James Madison. Ansley has spent a lot of his career in the SEC, coaching at Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee, where he was the Volunteers\u2019 defensive coordinator for two seasons in 2019-20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Additionally, both coaches have learned under some of the best in the collegiate ranks. Ansley worked as a graduate assistant and defensive backs coach under Nick Saban at Alabama, and Smith was the safeties coach under now national champion Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti. Ansley spent a year as the Raiders\u2019 DBs coach in 2018 before taking the Vols\u2019 DC job, and then returned to the NFL as the Chargers\u2019 defensive backs coach in 2021. In 2023, Ansley was promoted to be the defensive coordinator, a role he held for one season before joining the Packers in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">In the last two seasons as the Packers\u2019 passing game coordinator, Green Bay has finished 13th and 11th in the NFL in passing yards allowed per game. In 2024, the Packers were third in the NFL with 17 interceptions on the season. Now, both Ansley and Smith will be tasked with helping Parker, whose coaching history has centered around the secondary, rebuild Dallas\u2019 secondary, a unit that allowed the most passing yards per game in the NFL a season ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO, Texas \u2013 Christian Parkers\u2019 inaugural staff as a defensive coordinator is coming together, as the Cowboys hired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,932,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-146405","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\/146405","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=146405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}