{"id":720570,"date":"2026-02-01T03:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/720570\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T03:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:19:14","slug":"dallas-cowboys-land-dc-christian-parkers-first-two-defensive-assistants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/720570\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys land DC Christian Parker\u2019s first two defensive assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/christian-parker\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/christian-parker\/\">Christian Parker\u2019s<\/a> defensive staff in Dallas is starting to take shape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascowboys.com\/news\/cowboys-finalizing-defensive-staff-derrick-ansley-ryan-smith-officially-hired\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallascowboys.com\/news\/cowboys-finalizing-defensive-staff-derrick-ansley-ryan-smith-officially-hired\">According to the Cowboys\u2019 website,<\/a> the team has hired Derrick Ansley and Ryan Smith as defensive assistants. Ansley will serve as Dallas\u2019 defensive backs coach\/defensive pass game coordinator, while Smith will be the team\u2019s secondary coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Ansley recently worked in Green Bay as the Packers\u2019 defensive pass game coordinator. Smith spent the past three seasons in Arizona, working as the Cardinals\u2019 cornerbacks coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas is working quickly to put together its defensive staff under Parker. The Cowboys hired Parker as their new defensive coordinator earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Be the smartest Cowboys fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2026\/01\/26\/dallas-cowboys-defensive-assistant-coach-tracker-christian-parker-interviews-hirings\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2026\/01\/26\/dallas-cowboys-defensive-assistant-coach-tracker-christian-parker-interviews-hirings\/\">has interviewed several coaches for positions on the staff<\/a>, including former Ravens defensive coordinator Zach Orr and ex-Colorado defensive coordinator Robert Livingston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Parker\u2019s defensive staff in Dallas is starting to take shape. According to the Cowboys\u2019 website, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[96665,230,229,257,2461,7,6,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-720570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-christian-parker","9":"tag-cowboys","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys","12":"tag-dallascowboys","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115993219423530222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720570","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=720570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}