{"id":684121,"date":"2026-01-17T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/684121\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:26:16","slug":"dallas-cowboys-news-pros-and-cons-of-every-defensive-coordinator-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/684121\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys news: Pros and cons of every defensive coordinator candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year it didn\u2019t work out well with pass rusher Micah Parsons, who got into a public war of words with Jones over a lucrative extension. That beef was over Jones directly discussing a deal with Parsons instead of his agent, something the owner hasn\u2019t shied away from doing in his past.<\/p>\n

The irony is that Pickens is represented by the same agent<\/a>, David Mulugheta, so more fireworks could be on the way. The team does have the franchise tag at their disposal and will use it, if necessary, but the hope is a deal can be worked out.<\/p>\n

Extending Pickens is priority number one for the Cowboys, so it could be a long, drawn out process to get him a new contract.<\/p>\n

New deals for Javonte Williams and Brandon Aubrey<\/p>\n

Not far behind Pickens, are possible new deals for the Cowboys\u2019 leading rusher and their All-Pro kicker. Finally healthy, Williams had a breakout season in Dallas, and he\u2019ll be just 26 years old heading into the 2026 campaign. That\u2019s still in the prime for a running back and while there\u2019s mutual interest in re-signing Williams, nothing\u2019s a given with the Cowboys.<\/p>\n

The same can be said for Aubrey, a restriced free agent, who has been a revelation since becoming the Cowboys\u2019 kicker. A deal for Aubrey is likely to come and should be easy since it\u2019s not a massive deal, but these things don\u2019t always go smoothly with this front office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year it didn\u2019t work out well with pass rusher Micah Parsons, who got into a public war…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,436,2461,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-684121","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-dallas-cowboys-news","12":"tag-dallascowboys","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115910436358155960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684121","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=684121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}