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Mike McCarthy sought a replacement defensive coordinator after Dan Quinn departed Dallas to seek a head coaching position in Washington.

When choosing Mike Zimmer, a coach who started his NFL career with the Cowboys as a defensive assistant back in 1994 and is delighted to return to Dallas as defensive coordinator after spending two seasons away from the league, he went with experience.

“You always miss football,” Zimmer remarked at his initial news conference on Wednesday. Zimmer was sacked as the head coach of the Vikings following the 2021 season. “Coaching is something you miss. You miss your relationships with the coaches and the players.

Simply because of some of the problems going on with my family, I think I needed a small vacation. That was significant to me.