That willingness to help will be vital for the group's familiarity with new defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus. Sanborn learned under Eberflus while he was the head coach of the Bears.

Among all of the interesting things that happened during this episode, nothing stood out more than the conversation that took place between head coach Matt Eberflus and legendary coach Nick Saban.

Yeah, that former coach, the forgettable Matt Eberflus, who's now the defensive coordinator with the Dallas Cowboys, certainly lobbied for Sanborn, who plans to sign a one-year deal in Big D.

The 24-year-old will be reunited with Matt Eberflus, his head coach in Chicago ... (Darius Harris and Nick Vigil were still on the team's FA list at the time of this writing.) ...

Jack Sanborn was thought to be an ascending star in Chicago. Now he'll re-join Matt Eberflus and his ex-position coach in a thin LB corps in Dallas.