{"id":761422,"date":"2026-02-19T01:32:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/761422\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:32:27","slug":"christian-parker-once-knew-the-cowboys-as-rivals-now-hes-seeing-the-other-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/761422\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Parker once knew the Cowboys as rivals, now he\u2019s seeing the other side"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRISCO \u2014 The Cowboys<\/a>\u2019 newly hired defensive coordinator Christian Parker spent the last two seasons with the Eagles as the passing game coordinator\/defensive backs. Parker, who was introduced to the media on Thursday<\/a>, was asked whether he watched the HBO series, Hard Knocks on the NFC East to get some intel on the Cowboys. <\/p>\n

He did not. <\/p>\n

But he did watch the Netflix series on Jerry Jones, called the Gambler<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was snowed-in in Philly and accepted the job,\u201d Parker said. \u201cI was there and couldn\u2019t get really out. We were just doing Zoom interviews all day and I started watching a couple of those episodes to try to educate myself a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When it comes to the hate between Eagles and Cowboys fans, Parker said it\u2019s real and that it was a little awkward putting on Cowboys\u2019 colors. He got over it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think all division rivalries are a great part of the game and why you do it,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what makes it special when you have those rivalries. That usually means you\u2019re playing for something. You don\u2019t have rivalries if you\u2019re a bad team. You have rivalries when you have significant opponents and you know those games are high-leverage situations. That\u2019s when the best players show up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Dallas<\/a>To help Christian Parker succeed, Cowboys should prioritize boosting talent on defense<\/a><\/p>\n

Parker is a young and bright hire for the Cowboys. Dallas can make him look even smarter by fixing its defensive woes this offseason.<\/p>\n

\"Oklahoma<\/a>Oklahoma expected to hire Deland McCullough as running backs coach, reports say<\/a><\/p>\n

McCullough would replace DeMarco Murray, the former Dallas Cowboys star, who was hired by Kansas City last week. <\/p>\n

Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO \u2014 The Cowboys\u2019 newly hired defensive coordinator Christian Parker spent the last two seasons with the Eagles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2066],"tags":[2886,2009,96665,230,229,257,2461,7,2883,6,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-761422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-brian-schottenheimer","9":"tag-brief","10":"tag-christian-parker","11":"tag-cowboys","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-cowboys","14":"tag-dallascowboys","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-jerry-jones","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116094721862988897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761422","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=761422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}