\u201cI don\u2019t know that since we\u2019ve had free agency as we know it today, where it\u2019s really very viable, most teams involved very actively making deals if you will. I don\u2019t know since that has evolved and come about that we\u2019ve ever had this kind of reshaping of an aspect of our team.\u201d Jones said while speaking at the Grand Prix of Arlington on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Adding experienced players like OLB Rashan Gary, S Jalen Thompson and CB Cobie Durant to new DC Christian Parker\u2019s defense is only part of the equation that has Jones optimistic about the unit improving in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, we actually have touched some offense with a great blocker, but more importantly, what we\u2019ve done on defense,\u201d Jones said. \u201cThat plus what we have set up for the draft, plus what we really have coming back from our veteran defensive players that really didn\u2019t play that much last year, injury issues, things like that, gives us a lot of promise.\u201d<\/p>\n
When it comes to reconstructing a unit like the Cowboys are having to do, there are a variety of things that need to go right to see the ship steering back in the right direction. Jones knows that, but with all the challenges Dallas faced last season, sees only one direction for the defense to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll tell you, when you have the challenges we had last year, there\u2019s no place to go but up on the defensive side of the ball,\u201d Jones said. \u201cHad we played a lick of defense last year, we would\u2019ve had ourselves, I think, a real playoff run.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t know that since we\u2019ve had free agency as we know it today, where it\u2019s really very…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,932,104,103],"class_list":["post-208217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys-news","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208217","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=208217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}