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The Dallas Cowboys have a new defensive coordinator in Mike Zimmer.

but “new” doesn’t mean he has no plans to detonate what has been built defensively by now-Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn.

“We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel here,” Zimmer said in his Wednesday introductory presser at The Star. “I mean, they’ve been pretty good.”

With Zimmer now taking over a defense from Quinn that ranked first in takeaways in 2021 and 2022 and had a knack of sacking quarterbacks (ranked 14th in ’21 and ’23, 4th in 22), it is no surprise that Zimmer isn’t about to throw about what has been built already.

Instead, he is more focused on developing a scheme that brings out the players’ talents while also hammering home the want to be a disciplined unit at all times.

“We’re going to look at the players, try and figure out the best way to use them, put the scheme together and we want to take the good things they’ve done, maybe add a few more other things that we’ve done good in the past and try to make this thing manageable,” he said.

“We’re disciplined and we’re well-coached, play together as a team, we try to make sure everybody understands their role so that other people on the field can have success doing their job.