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Seahawks Interview Cowboys’ Aden Durde For DC Position

Aden Durde’s profile has improved as a result of this year’s defensive coordinator rotation. The assistant for the Cowboys is still in the race for a promotion and has applied to another Washington, DC, job.

Durde and the Seahawks have talked about Durde’s role as a DC, per Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com. This brings the total number of teams that have kept an eye on Durde this offseason to five. Though each NFC team has chosen a different path, the Falcons, Packers, and Rams all gave Durde consideration for their open positions.

The only two teams with open coordinator positions are Dallas and Seattle. Dallas may now hire Dan Quinn, who left for Washington, but the Seahawks are still in need of personnel in Orange County and Washington, D.C. But the two tasks will not be the same. While Mike McCarthy’s squad needs a play-caller on that side of the ball, Mike Macdonald is expected to call defensive plays for the Seahawks.

Durde, 44, had never conducted an interview for an NFL DC position prior to this offseason. However, in the 2020s, he oversaw one of the most well-known position groupings in the NFL. Even though the Cowboys refrained from classifying their star pass rusher Micah Parsons as a full-time D-lineman, Parsons’ rise has raised the group’s profile. Durde has collaborated with Dorance Armstrong, DeMarcus Lawrence, and Also, Dante Fowler

Durde, an Englishman, joined the NFL as an assistant in 2018. After three years of

apprenticeship under Quinn in Atlanta, he moved to Dallas in 2021 with Joe

Whitt. In Washington, Quinn has selected Whitt to be his defensive play-caller,

while Mike Zimmer and Ron Rivera are two more well-known candidates who

are being considered for the Cowboys position. But Durde is the first verified

candidate for the Seattle position. Joe Cullen, the D-line coach for the Chiefs, is

another candidate the Seahawks are considering.

Clint Hurtt, Seattle’s DC of the previous two seasons, departed to take a position as Vic Fangio’s D-line coach with the

Eagles. The Seahawks defense, which has been steadily deteriorating since the

Legion of Boom split up in the late 2010s, finished 25th in points allowed in both of

Hurtt’s two seasons as head coach. Macdonald and his senior lieutenant,

who will be named later, will work to raise that status.