Carlos Polk hired by Buccaneers

Dallas Cowboys make Carlos Polk assistant special teams coach

By Brandon George / Reporter
bgeorge@dallasnews.com
1:28 pm on January 20, 2014 |

MOBILE, Ala. — Carlos Polk has been hired as the new assistant special teams coach for the Dallas Cowboys.

Polk was a new face among some of the Dallas Cowboys assistant coaches who watched Monday morning’s Senior Bowl weigh-in at the Mobile Convention Center.

Polk spent last season as an intern for the Cowboys. He was an assistant special teams coach for San Diego from 2010 to 2012. Polk said Monday he’ll have the same title with the Cowboys.

In 2011 and 2012 in San Diego, Polk worked under special teams coorindator Rich Bisaccia, who just finished his first season as the Cowboys’ special teams coordinator.

Polk replaces Chris Boniol, who said earlier this month he and the Cowboys mutually agreed to part ways after his one-year contract had ended. Boniol is in Mobile, Ala., this week at Senior Bowl practices in search of a new gig.

Polk, 36, played eight seasons in the NFL. The former Nebraska linebacker played his first seven seasons in San Diego before playing his last season in the league with the Cowboys in 2008.

From 2008...I am struggling to think of one we have had since.

Well, I guess not.

So...for those keeping track at home, we have had three "mystery" coaches on the staff as interns or what the hell ever...Borganzi, Lovie's kid and now Polk.

What the frick are we? A minor league development system for them?

This is just really fricking weird.

Wow.