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Dallas Cowboys Assistant Unfazed Despite Legitimate Interest From Titans
The Dallas Cowboys are going through an offseason shakeup after hiring Philadelphia Eagles passing game coordinator & defensive backs coach Christian Parker as their next defensive coordinator.
Moving forward, the Cowboys will have to fill out the rest of the staff around Parker. Dallas is allowing its assistant coaches to go through an interview with Parker or search for new jobs, per the Dallas Morning News’ Calvin Watkins.
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Prior to bringing in Parker, the franchise also explored the possibility of elevating defensive line coach Aaron Whitecotton to the defensive coordinator position. Whitecotton is getting an opportunity to guide the defense for the East team at the East-West Shrine Bowl
It’s possible an old friend could come calling to try and pluck Whitecotton from Dallas. He’s just staying focused on the job at hand for the time being.
Cowboys Assistant Not Thinking About Potential Interest From Titans
The Tennessee Titans zeroed in on San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh as their next head coach last week. Saleh is leading a franchise once again after being fired by the New York Jets early in the 2024 season.
Whitecotton has a connection to Saleh. The two worked together for one season in San Francisco, and Whitecotton followed Saleh to New York. He served as defensive line coach for all four of Saleh’s years with the Jets.
The Titans have already requested to interview Whitecotton for their open defensive coordinator position. Unlike the situation with offensive coordinator Klayton Adams, Dallas would be unable to deny Tennessee’s request since Whitecotton would be receiving a promotion.
The possibility of change is something Whitecotton is keeping at the back of his mind.
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“I’m just trying to live in the present. I’m so busy with this East-West game and what we’ve got going here in Dallas,” Whitecotton said, per DallasCowboys.com. “I haven’t [interviewed with the Titans yet], so I haven’t really had a chance to go through that in my mind.”
“The game has been an incredibly good distraction. I don’t have to sit there and think about this or think about this, I’m working my butt off trying to get these boys ready to play,” Whitecotton added. “I think that’s kind of where my mind’s at right now.”
Whitecotton has been working at the NFL level since 2013. He spent four seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars, operating as a defensive assistant and assistant defensive line coach. Whitecotton went on to assist the Buffalo Bills from 2017-19. He was the assistant defensive line coach for the Bills in his final two seasons with the franchise.
San Francisco brought in Whitecotton ahead of the 2020 season, leading to his bond with Saleh.
The Cowboys’ defensive line was up-and-down throughout 2025-26. It didn’t help that Dallas moved on from Micah Parsons shortly before the season began and was unable to acquire Quinnen Williams until the NFL trade deadline.
Obviously, Williams and Whitecotton are familiar with one another after their time with the Jets. That would be a plus of keeping the veteran assistant around.
Dallas is making sure to watch its back just in case Whitecotton departs for Tennessee. The team previously requested an interview with Minnesota Vikings defensive line coach Marcus Dixon.
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Temperatures are expected to climb into the upper-90s and triple digits over the next week, with no real sign of relief! Sunshine dominates the forecast, with only a very slim chance of rain by the end of next week.
Dallas police are searching for a shooting suspect after two people were shot early Saturday morning.
The shooting incident happened around 6:30 a.m. when Dallas officers responded to a shooting call in the 7600 block of South Central Expressway, where two people had been shot.
Officials said one victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition by Dallas Fire-Rescue. The other was transported by private vehicle in stable condition.
No arrests have been made as of Saturday afternoon, according to Dallas Police.
The shooting investigation is ongoing and this story will be updated as we learn more.
UPDATE 6-26-2026: Gracie has been found about four miles south of the Cedar Hollow Ranch, according to a Facebook update from Real County Animal Rescue. Ranch manager Vic Jones has assembled a team to safely bring the wandering giraffe home.
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A giraffe named Gracie is missing in Texas, and the search for her has become a tall order.
Gracie, who is about 3 years old, has been missing for nearly two weeks after escaping her enclosure at Cedar Hollow Ranch in the Texas Hill Country, said Vic Jones, who owns the remote property about 100 miles west of San Antonio. He said Wednesday, June 24 that Gracie had wandered into a part of the privately owned preserve that other giraffes previously avoided.
Jones said he has sent up helicopters to look for Gracie, a few sightings have trickled in, and a $5,000 reward is on the table.
But the giraffe, which stands roughly the height of a tree, hasn’t turned up.
“She wound up going up and feeding in an area on the hillside and the rocky ledges that none of the other giraffes had ever gone on before,” Jones said. “And when she came down off of there, she came down on the wrong side of the gate.”
The ranch is in rural Real County, where its roughly 2,700 residents were put on alert to be on the lookout for a missing giraffe. Jones said the search area is extremely remote, and the likelihood of Gracie encountering any humans is low.
“People are not in danger of her because she’s not around people,” Jones said. ‘She’s out in very, very rough, heavily wooded lands.”
The Texas Hill Country has one of the largest concentrations of exotic captive animals in the country. Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson said the mild climate and rugged terrain seems to serve as a good stand-in for most of the animals’ native African environments.
He rattled off a list of animals that have gone missing over the years, especially after floods, but said this was his first giraffe.
“I’ve had wildebeests, I’ve had water buffalo, I’ve had monkeys, I’ve had zebras, all go missing,” Johnson said. “Sometimes we recover them, and sometimes we don’t.”
While the middle of Texas is not a giraffe’s native environment, Jones said Gracie should be able to find plenty of leaves and other vegetation to eat. He said other animals were not likely to bother her.
Jones said he initially had helicopters searching an area of about 7,500 acres (3,000 hectares) with no luck. A few days later, there was a report that Gracie was spotted to the south.
But by the time they could search the area, Jones said, she was already gone.
“We’re always two three days late for where the information is coming from, so that makes it tough,” Jones said.
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