Dallas Cowboys VP Stephen Jones told the The Star Telegram that the defensive scheme former DC Rob Ryan had in place, was too much...

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"Where we fundamentally came down with Rob is that his philosophy is about multiple scheme," Jones said. "I think you have to skinny it down. Philosophically, I don’t think Rob believes in that. And it’s not something that happened and all of a sudden at the end of the year we had a problem. I think Rob will tell you we had long visits about this in the off-season last year that there was too much scheme. He tried to cut it back and he did skinny it back, but it’s still a lot."

"This is no revelation we had after we went 8-8. This was after the year before’s 8-8. We just didn’t feel like at the end of the day Rob could skinny it back enough to our satisfaction that we could make plays."

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The Saints put a provision in Rob Ryan‘s contract that says the newly hired defensive coordinator can’t speak to the media unless it’s approved by the team’s senior vice president of communications, Greg Bensel, according to Andy Fenelon of NFL.com. That is likely in response to the Ryans’ proclivity to make brash statements and victory guarantees in the past.

According to league sources at ESPN, the Saints plan to hire former Dallas Cowboys assistant coach Rob Ryan as their new defensive coordinator.