Mike Zimmer will not be returning as the defensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys in 2025, and will most likely retire.

"The truth,'' Mike Zimmer tells us with a laugh, "is that I've wanted to be the next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys for 25 years.''

Brian Schottenheimer has made a high-profile addition to his Cowboys staff, bringing in ex-Bears head coach Matt Eberflus to be the team's new DC.

Mike Zimmer, whose contract as Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator expired earlier in January, isn't looking like he'll be returning to the team in 2025. Since before the end of the regular season, speculation began to grow on Zimmer's future as multiple insiders and even Micah Parsons wondered if the coach would hang it up after returning to coaching in 2024.

Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys are ringing in 2025 with a shake-up that has the NFL world buzzing. Brian Schottenheimer has officially been introduced as the new head coach in Big D.

The Dallas Cowboys stayed in-house for their new head coach, promoting Brian Schottenheimer as Mike McCarthy's successor. They're welcoming a former head coach from outside the building to aid Schottenheimer,

The Colts reached the playoffs twice and were a top-10 scoring defense three times in Eberflus’ four seasons as defensive coordinator. Chicago went 14-32 under Eberflus and never had better than the league’s 18th-best scoring defense.

When the Cowboys elected to part ways with former head coach Mike McCarthy earlier this month, the writing was on

Matt Eberflus was fired less than 24 hours after a game-ending coaching blunder against the Lions on Thanksgiving.

Matt Eberflus has a new job. The Cowboys hired the ex-Bears head coach to be their defensive coordinator on Tuesday, according to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero . Eberflus spent parts of three seasons in Chicago, going 14-32, before being fired in late November after a 4-8 start to the 2024 campaign.

Twenty-four hours after a press conference introducing Brian Schottenheimer as the 10th head coach in franchise history, the Cowboys have announced hiring their new defensive coordinator: former Chicago Bears head coach Matt Eberflus.