The Dallas Cowboys "absolutely" want to sign Dak Prescott to a long-term deal.

"Our whole thing with Dak is him being a Cowboy," executive vice president Stephen Jones said. "That's all that's on our mind."

Prescott is scheduled to count $59.4 million against the salary cap for 2024 in the final year of his contract. 

The Cowboys could do a simple restructuring that would give them $18.52 million in cap relief for this season, but it would push money to 2025 and 2026 with Prescott counting nearly $55 million against the cap in 2025 even if he played elsewhere.

The Cowboys, though, say they are committed to Prescott long term and want to sign him to a long-term deal.

"We got ways to adjust his cap number for this season," Jones said of Prescott. "Obviously between Dak and Micah [Parsons] and CeeDee [Lamb], the salary cap is real for us. We want to do deals with all three of them. Do you get to do everything you want to do with the salary cap? I don't think any team does. But we're certainly going to be able to go out and go to work and get the things done that we feel like we need to get done to be successful."

Tyron Smith has no plans to retire, according to a report, and the left tackle hopes to continue his career with the Dallas Cowboys.

Smith, 33, is set to become a free agent next month.

Smith hasn't played a full season since 2015 and has played only 82 of 131 games since.

If Micah Parsons had his way, Tony Pollard would be the RB1 for the Dallas Cowboys again in 2024.

"I would say toward the end of the season Tony Pollard was catching his rhythm again," Parsons said. "I do think he's an every-down guy. You've got to think, he broke his fibula, tibia, something, that's a catastrophic injury. You're talking about a guy that's really been off from that January, came back Week 1 but he didn't really do a lot. It takes a while to get back into football. He didn't do OTAs. He didn't do minicamp. He kind of did camp a little bit like working through it, getting back into it. You saw him increase, like he even said, 'I'm just now getting back to myself.' I would give Tony Pollard another shot."

Pollard was battling back from a fractured fibula, but was slightly disappointing in his first season as the featured back. He now heads into free agency after a year on the franchise tag.

Mike Zimmer isn't going to try to reinvent a Dallas Cowboys defense that has ranked seventh, tied for fifth and fifth in points allowed while totaling an NFL-best 93 takeaways over the past three seasons.

Zimmer is the team's new defensive coordinator with Dan Quinn leaving to become the head coach of the Washington Commanders.

"We're not trying to reinvent the wheel here," Zimmer said. "I mean, they've been pretty good. I've been in some situations where things that haven't happened, but that happens in coaching. It happens a lot.

"We're going to look at the players, try to figure out the best way to use them, put the scheme together and, again, we want to take the good things that they've done and maybe add a few more other things we've done good in the past."

The Cowboys reached agreement Monday with Mike Zimmer to make the former Minnesota Vikings coach Dallas' new defensive coordinator.

"I'm excited and honored to be back with a great organization," Zimmer told ESPN's Ed Werder. "I'm thrilled to work with Mike McCarthy, for whom I have had a ton of respect in our NFC North days, and to do anything I can do to help the Joneses and the Cowboys."

The Seattle Seahawks plan to hire Aden Durde as their defensive coordinator under new coach Mike Macdonald, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Friday.

Durde was the Dallas Cowboys' defensive line coach for the past three seasons under then-coordinator Dan Quinn.

The Dallas Cowboys will hire Mike Zimmer as defensive coordinator to replace Dan Quinn. 

Zimmer was a Cowboys' assistant coach from 1994-2006, starting as a defensive assistant, moving to defensive backs in 1995, the last year Dallas won a Super Bowl, and serving as the coordinator from 2000-06 under two different head coaches, Dave Campo (2000-02) and Bill Parcells (2003-06).

Zimmer was head coach of the Minnesota Vikings from 2014 until 2021.

Rex Ryan has interviewed for the vacant defensive coordinator position with the Dallas Cowboys. 

The Cowboys are searching for a new defensive coordinator following the departure of Dan Quinn to the Washington Commanders. 

Ryan has worked in media since he was fired as head coach of the Buffalo Bills in 2016. 

The Washington Commanders have agreed to hire Dan Quinn as head coach. Quinn returns to head coaching after spending the past three seasons as defensive coordinator of the Dallas Cowboys.

Quinn was head coach of the Atlanta Falcons from 2015 to 2020.

The Commanders previously hired Adam Peters as general manager.

Bill Belichick appears unlikely to get a head coaching job this offseason, but that doesn't mean teams aren't keeping him on their radar.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said there's "no doubt" he could work with the former New England Patriots coach, whom he calls a "friend."

"I know him personally and I like him," Jones said. "There's no doubt in my mind we could work together. None."

The Cowboys announced earlier this month that Mike McCarthy would return.