Wade Phillips, Lovie Smith and Rex Ryan will be ushering in a new trend next season: Head coaches who will be calling defensive plays. Their success could determine if the strategy takes off.

Cowboys coach Wade Phillips has taken over defensive play-calling duties from defensive coordinator Brian Stewart, according to a team source. Skip to main content Skip to navigation Menu ...

Kris Richard is in Year 1 as a coordinator, but Bucky Brooks still identifies him as one of the game's best defensive minds, thanks to the coach's work with the "Legion of Boom." Where does he rank?

IRVING — Having been hired largely because of his reputation as a top defensive coach, Dallas Cowboys coach Wade Phillips has taken a more active role in that area beginning this week. But he ...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Wade Phillips is the Los Angeles Rams’ new defensive coordinator, the team confirmed Thursday. A week after 30-year-old head coach Sean McVay said the 69-year-old ...

After Wade Phillips agreed to become the Texans’ new defensive coordinator on Wednesday, he and coach Gary Kubiak went to owner Bob McNair’s office. McNair dialed Bum Phillips’ telephone ...

During Phillips’s first stint with the Broncos, from 1989-94, as defensive coordinator then head coach, Greg Kragen was a small, quick nose guard whom they often used on stunts.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- When Dallas Cowboys coach Wade Phillips took over the defensive coordinator duties, it seemed to give him new life. In 2008, when Brian Stewart and Phillips shared defensive play ...