I’m not someone who believes in curses, ghosts, witchcraft, or supernatural forces deciding football games.

After watching the Dallas Cowboys for the last 30 years, the highs, the heartbreaks, the collapses that always seem to arrive right on schedule. I can’t lie: sometimes it feels like this team is fighting more than X’s and O’s.

I’m not saying the Cowboys are literally cursed, but I am saying this franchise plays like a team that’s been trying to break one since 1996.

Let me explain exactly why and see what you think.

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Every week, we gather to discuss the latest news about the Dallas Cowboys and seek our writer’s perspective on each headline. Welcome back to the roundtable. This week we have David Howman, Sean Martin, and Tom Ryle.

Have all playoff hopes diminished after the Detroit loss? Or do you still have a small bit of hope?

Mike: You’re talking to Mr. Positive here so the way to put this is the Cowboys playoff hopes aren’t dead, but they’re on life support. The path to postseason hopes are very narrow. The team has to stack wins immediately, literally zero losses...

Cowboys’ Schottenheimer: ‘Personnel adjustments’ coming for this struggling unit – Todd Brock, The Cowboys Wire

The Cowboys kickoff coverage unit is really poor this year.

The Cowboys’ kickoff coverage, however, is struggling mightily. They’re making life significantly harder for the Dallas defense before they even take the field, having given up the fourth-most kickoff return yards in the league so far this year. It was especially problematic versus Detroit in Week 14, with the unit allowing 261 yards on eight kick returns.

On those eight kickoffs, the Lions‘ average starting field position was their own 36.5-yard...

The Pittsburgh Steelers have a history of trading away apparent star wide receivers. George Pickens to Dallas was just the latest example.

Pittsburgh is almost always proven right in doing so.

On Thursday night, Pickens may have finally shown why the Steelers unloaded him during the spring.

He seemed disinterested in running routes. He also seemed angry at times.

Pickens (lack of) effort on Thursday is perfectly shown in this compilation:

https://twitter.com/MLFootball/status/1996806441097994252

That isn’t the look you want to see from arguably the best receiver on your team. Especially after CeeDee Lamb goes down with a concussion.

A Solid Start...

The Dallas Cowboys lost to the Detroit Lions on Thursday night, but they were able to pick up some help on Monday night to make it hurt a little bit less. Shout out to the Los Angeles Chargers for beating the Philadelphia Eagles. Seriously. This is huge. It took overtime, but it happened!

The Cowboys’ loss to Detroit coupled with the little bit of help (being generous) they received across the rest of Week 14 made their hopes of a Wild Card spot seem all the more improbable. There is a strong argument to be made that the most probable...

This game between the Eagles and the Chargers will have huge implications on Dallas’ fading playoff hopes. Go Bolts.

This is an open thread for game chat.

The 44-30 loss to the Detroit Lions last week hasn’t mathematically eliminated the Dallas Cowboys from the playoffs, but the chances of sneaking in are extremely slim. With the 2025 NFL season all but over for them, it might be time to start focusing a little more on the future of the organization. That means identifying priorities like maybe extending George Pickens and any other pending free agents who are in their future plans.

It’s nearly impossible to know which pending free agents the Cowboys brass plan to prioritize in a few weeks when the 2025 NFL regular-season comes to...

One of the more stellar moments from the 2024 season for the Dallas Cowboys was KaVontae Turpin’s kickoff return on the road against the Washington Commanders. It was the catalyst for an improbable comeback.

Thankfully that season is behind us, but these current times are a bit somber as well. Dallas was riding high during their three-game winning streak before it all came crashing down following Thursday night’s loss to the Detroit Lions. At least it feels that way. The Cowboys still carry mathematical (and somewhat legitimate) hopes for the playoffs, but given that they were 3-5-1 it was always...

The Dallas Cowboys didn’t beat the Detroit Lions on Thursday, and because of that, it puts the team’s playoff hopes in dire straits. It’s certainly disappointing to not make it into the playoffs. Just a couple of years ago, they were coming off three consecutive appearances. Now, they are on the cusp of missing the postseason in back-to-back seasons.

Missing out on the playoffs would suck, but there are many reasons to be optimistic about what’s to come. The Cowboys have several good players and plenty of promising youngsters who continue to get better. If nothing else, these last four...

If you haven’t been paying attention to how much of a hit the Dallas Cowboys special teams unit has taken this year, maybe you should.

When John Fassel left to take the job with the Tennessee Titans, many thought it might be an easy fix, wrong.

With how brutal the Cowboys special teams play has been this year, Brian Schottenheimer said today on 103 The Fan that personnel changes may be on the way.

The current special teams coordinator is Nick Sorensen.

Major Issues

Outside of Brandon Aubrey, who is just the best kicker in football, the rest of...

It has been a few days. Sometimes that helps. The Dallas Cowboys lost to the Detroit Lions four days ago and for perspective since then a lifetime has happened for some college football fanbases with the College Football Playoff being revealed (sorry Notre Dame fans).

Maybe you enjoyed the weekend off from the Cowboys by watching the conference championship games and Sunday NFL action. Perhaps you did some Christmas shopping. Whatever you did, time passed and that may have cooled things for you relative to Dallas’ lost last week.

Is that the case? Do you feel less upset now that...

Over the last few weeks, the Cleveland Browns have been trying to rally around Shedeur Sanders as their starting quarterback, and while he has been decent, you can’t really judge him after playing the Raiders and the Titans.

With that said, some other news dropped last week about them that makes things very interesting as they head into 2026. The team said they plan to keep Deshaun Watson on the roster, which means they will owe him a total of $46M dollars next year.

Yikes.

Drama On The Way

Although it has been said Watson won’t play the rest...