The Titans’ job search will include the coach who guided the early years of Dak Prescott’s career.
As reported by Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, former Cowboys coach Jason Garrett will interview for the head-coaching vacancy in Tennessee on Friday.
Garrett, who was part of three Super Bowl-winning teams with the Cowboys in the 1990s, coached the Cowboys from 2011 through 2019, after becoming the interim head coach during the 2010 season.
He had a regular-season record of 85-67 in the regular season, with three playoff appearances. His postseason record was 2-3.
Garrett won the NFL’s coach of the year award in 2016, the year that started with veteran quarterback Tony Romo being unavailable due to a back injury, opening the door for Prescott, a fourth-round rookie, to lead the team to a 13-3 record.
Garrett then worked as offensive coordinator for the Giants in 2020 and 2021. He joined NBC Sports in 2022, where he’s stuck sitting next to me every Sunday during football season.
Which would explain his desire to find a new job.
Personally, I’d hate to see Garrett go. I’ve learned a lot from him over the past four years. But coaches coach, and his work with Prescott speaks for itself. The Titans need someone to help get the most out of Cam Ward, the first overall pick in the 2025 draft.
The Cowboys have made it official: They’ve fired defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus.
Technically, they “released” him. Which is an unusual choice of words. But it’s fitting. The players (who are “released”) are the pieces of a large football machine that inevitably be replaced. The coaches are, too.
“Having known Matt Eberflus for decades now, we have tremendous respect and appreciation for him as a coach and a person,” owner and G.M. Jerry Jones said in a press release. “After reviewing and discussing the results of our defensive performance this season, though, it was clear that change is needed. This is the first step in that process and we will continue that review as it applies to reaching our much higher expectations.”
The team’s higher on-field expectations haven’t been met, for 30 years. The expectations regarding profit, however, are always met — year after year after year.
The next question becomes how much of that profit will be devoted to the next defensive coordinator. Rex Ryan claims that Mike Zimmer was hired as defensive coordinator instead of Ryan in 2024 because the Cowboys didn’t offer enough Ryan money.
Whether it’s Ryan or Brian Flores or someone else, the Cowboys are now looking for the next defensive coordinator who quite possibly will be “released” in a future early-January statement.
Jerry Jones was right; it wasn’t a difficult decision.
Per multiple reports, the Cowboys have fired defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus, after one year as the team’s defensive coordinator.
Under Eberflus, the Cowboys finished third from last in yards allowed per game, at 377. They allowed the most points of any team in the 2025 regular season, with 30.1 per game.
Head coach Brian Schottenheimer will be back for a second year. With Brian Flores a free agent, he could be the next coordinator in Dallas, unless he gets a head-coaching job.
The Cowboys will have their fourth defensive coordinator in four years. After 2023, Dan Quinn became the Commanders head coach. Mike Zimmer returned for 2024, the final year for Mike McCarthy in Dallas. Then came Eberflus, a seven-year assistant with the Cowboys under Jason Garrett.
Eberflus has gotten a pink slip for two straight years. In 2024, the Bears fired him as head coach the day after a Thanksgiving loss to the Lions.
His job in Dallas became considerably harder when the team decided to trade linebacker Micah Parsons less than two weeks before the start of the season. Regardless, someone had to take the fall for the 30th year without an NFC Championship appearance — and it wasn’t going to be the owner/G.M.
On Monday, Giants quarterback Russell Wilson said he suffered a previously-undisclosed Grade 2 hamstring tear on the last play of Friday’s practice before a Week 2 overtime loss to the Cowboys.
Wilson later reacted to the suggestion that this development will result in the NFL scrutinizing the Giants for failing to disclose the injury.
“Not the [Giants] fault!” Wilson said on Twitter. “They didn’t know bc I didn’t want to tell anyone bc of the circumstances. I just had to play through it to try and go ball that day! Thought we were going to Win that wild crazy game!”
Wilson had said this to reporters on Monday morning: “I played that [Week 2] game, you know, I tore my hamstring on Friday in practice — the last play of practice. And I had a grade two [tear]. I couldn’t tell anybody. I had to go and play on it just because I knew the circumstance, I had to play on it, no matter what. I actually ended up going to the Dallas Mavericks’ facility, training. And, you know, kept it quiet, just trying to get treatment on it and just knowing that I probably couldn’t run from the goal line to the 10-yard line if I wanted to, but I feel like, you know, I got to play this game.”
Under Wilson’s version, he said nothing to anyone from the team about the hamstring injury that occurred during a practice rep, in the presence of teammates, coaches, and anyone else who was there. And no one noticed that anything was amiss — even though, as anyone who has ever suffered a hamstring injury knows, it’s something that prompts a reaction in the form of immediate limping and/or grabbing at the back of the leg.
Then, Wilson went about his business, staying silent about the hamstring injury. He flew with the team to Dallas (no high knees on the plane), arranging a secret treatment session at the Dallas Mavericks’ training facility while breathing not a word of his condition to anyone with the team.
Once in Dallas, he left the Giants to get treatment on the hamstring from the local NBA franchise, again with no one from team management (or, apparently, anyone else) knowing what was happening.
He returned, prepared for the game, played in it, and kept completely quiet about the situation — to the point that the injury didn’t appear on the team’s Week 3 injury report, either. Or Week 4, when he was benched for Jaxson Dart. (Wilson next appeared on the injury report in Week 5, with an ankle injury that did not impact his practice availability.)
Through it all, nothing was said to anyone about the secret hamstring injury until today.
Regardless of Wilson’s claim that the Giants didn’t know, the failure of the Giants to disclose the injury via an update to the Week 2 injury report will undoubtedly attract the league’s attention. (The NFL declined comment on the situation via email to PFT on Monday.)
The prevalence of gambling makes the injury report more important than ever. While it’s unclear whether a team is responsible for an injury that the player affirmatively and successfully conceals from the organization, Wilson’s comments compels the league to launch an inquiry. The NBA’s latest gambling scandal has underscored the importance of ensuring full compliance with the injury-reporting rules.
Speaking of the NBA, that league could have questions about the Mavericks’ apparent willingness to provide secret treatment to Wilson. If, as Wilson says, he went to the Mavs’ facility to get the injury treated, someone there knew about the injury — and participated in its concealment.
Then there’s the question of why Wilson wouldn’t say anything to the team about the injury. Did he fear that he’d be benched for the Week 2 game, if the Giants believed he was less than 100 percent? (Apparently, he did.)
Regardless, Wilson said enough to activate curiosity from the league. Claiming the Giants didn’t know isn’t nearly enough to put the toothpaste back in the tube. Either the NFL cares about the integrity of its injury rules, or it doesn’t.
If it does, the only option is to start asking the Giants questions about what it knew, when it knew it, and why it didn’t disclose the injury. If it doesn’t, Wilson’s disclosure will be forgotten and never mentioned by the NFL.
Russell Wilson is giving the New York Giants a parting gift. In the form of an inevitable league investigation and possibly a fine, for the team and/or one or more individuals.
Meeting with reporters during the annual locker clean-out day, Wilson revealed that he tore his hamstring on the Friday before the Week 2 game at the Cowboys.
“I’m not blinking,” Wilson said, as to whether he plans to keep playing. “I know what I’m capable of. I think I showed that in Dallas, and I want to be able to do that again. You know, and just be ready to rock and roll, and be as healthy as possible and be ready to play ball. You know, I played that [Week 2] game, you know, I tore my hamstring on Friday in practice — the last play of practice. And I had a grade two [tear]. I couldn’t tell anybody. I had to go and play on it just because I knew the circumstance, I had to play on it, no matter what. I actually ended up going to the Dallas Mavericks’ facility, training. And, you know, kept it quiet, just trying to get treatment on it and just knowing that I probably couldn’t run from the goal line to the 10-yard line if I wanted to, but I feel like, you know, I got to play this game.”
Wilson played that game, and he played well. Wilson threw for 450 yards in the 40-37 overtime loss, with three touchdown passes. And even though he claims he couldn’t run from the goal line to the 10-yard line, he rushed for 23 yards on three carries, with a long of 15 yards.
Still, Wilson admits he had an injury that wasn’t disclosed. He acknowledges he kept it a secret. The question is whether he kept it a secret from the team and, if not, whether the team kept it a secret from the league, from the Cowboys, and from the general public.
Someone had to know. He went to the Mavericks’ training facility for treatment. Someone there knew. The league will want to know whether anyone from the Giants knew.
Although the incident happened before the latest NBA gambling scandal highlighted the perils of inside information, the league will have no choice but to investigate, to make the full results of the investigation public, and to issue punishment if warranted.
Is Wilson simply trying to make himself look like Willis Reed, months after the fact? That’s for the league to determine. But the Giants won’t be happy about this. And, as one source explained upon hearing the news, it won’t make other teams more likely to offer him a roster spot for 2026.
Not that there was going to be a land rush for his services without his decision to blurt out that he had a hidden injury. His overall skills simply aren’t what they used to be, as evidenced by the overall reaction to a Jaxson Dart concussion evaluation during the Week 6 Thursday night game against the Eagles. Everyone wanted Dart back in the game ASAFP, including then-coach Brian Daboll — whose urgency to know Dart’s status prompted him to enter the medical tent, sparking a league investigation and a slew of fines.
Now, more fines could be coming. All thanks to Wilson’s comments on the way out the door after a season spent mostly on the bench, and in multiple games as the emergency third-string quarterback.
