The downside of taking the league by storm, throttling opposing defenses in creatively-fueled point-and-yardage explosions, stifling enemy offenses with a blitzing swarm of takeaway specialists, and becoming the trendy midseason pick for a Super Bowl appearance is that all the other teams start looking to the coaches responsible. Maybe one of those successful staffers is just the spark needed to turn a foundering franchise around by handing them their own keys to a kingdom.
Even if the Cowboys fall flat on their faces for the remaining eight games of their season, they’ve shown enough tantalizing potential during their first nine to draw sizable interest from teams who’ll be making a change in the offseason.
NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero looked across the league and throughout the college ranks to identify the assistants who may be due to get their own shot in 2022. Not surprisingly, several Cowboys staffers made the list.