{"id":676941,"date":"2026-01-14T16:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/676941\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:07:14","slug":"experience-vs-cutting-edge-at-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/676941\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience vs. cutting edge at DC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy: That&#8217;s a great question! Personally, I think you try to find a balance between the two. Not necessarily head coach or coordinating experience per se, but someone who has been around for a while and has had time to think about how they would construct a defense based on what they&#8217;ve learned from coordinators, whether it be just one they&#8217;ve worked under or multiple if the coach has been in different places. I think a nice blend of experiences so you can try different things, while also having the ability to be flexible and adapt\/evolve your scheme to your players and modern offensive trends is what would benefit the Cowboys the most from this defensive coordinator cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy: That&#8217;s a great question! Personally, I think you try to find a balance between the two. Not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,2461,7,417,4661,486,1901,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-676941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallascowboys","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-news-all-news","14":"tag-news-mailbag","15":"tag-news-mickey-spagnola","16":"tag-news-tommy-yarrish","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115894317486491341","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}