Frisco, Texas -The recent start of Mike McCarthy has a training effect while the Dallas Cowboys are looking for a new head coach while their list of assistant coaches and posts is not signed either, their contracts having expired on 14 January and Al Harris became the last. To leave the organization.
Harris accepted the conditions with the Bears of Chicago to join them as coordinator of the passenger game for 2025 and beyond, hired by the new head coach Ben Johnson, returning within the familiar limits of the NFC Nord where he has After eight seasons of his All-Pro and career in Pro Bowl with the Packers of Green Bay.
The agreement is being finalized, unless the events are unexpected.
As a benchmark, Johnson and Harris were both members of the Dolphin coaches team in 2012.
Having spent the last seasons to develop talents such as Trevon Diggs and Daron Bland in Dallas-Two all-Pro Record cornerbacks-and having helped to raise Jourdan Lewis at the All-Pro level in 2024, Harris is one of the best- Young promising and respected football minds that have managed to convert its old high level of play into the NFL to a coach capacity at the professional level.
He obtained a promotion under McCarthy to the post of assistant head coach in 2024, after being a defensive coach from 2020 to the 2023 season, also retaining the latter responsibilities under Mike Zimmer, who was defensive coordinator of Cowboys the season last.
Harris leaves a fairly important vacuum which must now be filled, and quickly, by Dallas.
Other notable departures include John “Bones” Fassel and Robert Prince to the Tennessee titans and Miami dolphins in the same roles, respectively, and a fourth would also have left, namely the assistant coach of the special teams Rayna Stewart joining Fassel in Tennessee. Prince joined the cowboys in 2022 and helped Ceede Lamb to become a record player, as well as the development of Jalen Tolbert and others, while Fassel is undoubtedly the best football coordinator on this side of the ball.
The reconstruction of the Dallas team of coaches has officially started, while the race for the head coach is coming to an end.
