{"id":697017,"date":"2026-01-22T19:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/697017\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:20:13","slug":"dallas-cowboys-jump-ahead-of-packers-for-defensive-coordinator-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/697017\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys jump ahead of Packers for defensive coordinator target"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the more popular names on the to-be defensive coordinator market this offseason was Parker, who was also the first reported defensive coordinator interview for Green Bay in 2026<\/a>. Parker, who coached under the legendary Vic Fangio in both Denver and now Philadelphia, got his start in the NFL in 2019 on Matt LaFleur\u2019s first staff as a quality control coach. Parker was previously interviewed by LaFleur for the team\u2019s 2024 defensive coordinator opening, which went to Jeff Hafley, now the head coach of the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n

Parker is the second defensive coordinator hired in recent days, with Brian Flores re-signing with the Minnesota Vikings on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Without Parker, the known and remaining Packers interviewees for the job are Chicago Bears pass game coordinator\/defensive backs coach Al Harris (interviewed Wednesday), Minnesota Vikings pass game coordinator\/defensive backs coach Daronte Jones (will interview Thursday) and former Arizona Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon (will interview Friday). Worth remembering, though, is that Green Bay tends to keep searches quiet. When Hafley was hired, he had never even been linked to the team until the announcement that he got the job was made.<\/p>\n

The names below are coaches who have received interview requests from other teams, but they have yet to be announced as requested interviews by Green Bay:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the more popular names on the to-be defensive coordinator market this offseason was Parker, who was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[1227,7,41,345,97481,2702,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-697017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-green-bay","11":"tag-green-bay-packers","12":"tag-green-bay-packers-coaching-staff","13":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","14":"tag-greenbay","15":"tag-greenbaypackers","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115940375116799986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697017","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=697017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}