"Both are great coaches, and both are great defensive minds. I think that is one thing that stood out for me with my time in Chicago, and at the same time just both great people, people that you want to play for, and two people that kind of get the best out of me," Sanborn said. "I really enjoyed working with them, I'm excited to work with them more and have a great defense here."
When Eberflus' defenses have been at their best in the past, they specialize in being able to stop the run and take the ball away. Turnovers have been a staple of the Cowboys defense in recent years, but they've struggled to stop the run, finishing 29th in the league last season and have not finished top 10 in the league since 2018 in the run defense category. Sanborn thinks all that will change soon.
"Being aggressive, one of the big things is he wants to stop the run," Sanborn said. "I think being aggressive, being physical, flying around to the football, tackling well, and we've got to get the football taken away from opposing offenses and that's what he harps on and is something he wants to get accomplished."
In order to accomplish that goal, Murray believes that the Cowboys focus should be centered more around the mentality of what they want to be on defense, and that will be what leads to success in the scheme.
"I think run defense is all about mentality, there's definitely some schematics that go into it but I think for us it's just going to be about having the right approach, right mentality, and then just sitting down and getting our goals together of what we want to do, what we want to be…" Murray said.
"I don't think it's rocket science in the sense of you have to do a bunch of different things, I really do think it comes down to making sure that we're communicating and on the same page, understanding what our jobs are within the scheme, and then just play with the mentality that we're not going to let anybody run the ball on us."