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...

The Dallas Cowboys will play a football game on a Sunday for the first time in a while, and when they do they will host the Minnesota Vikings. The game is on Sunday night.

It will mark the latest moment that Dallas has commanded the spotlight as they played consecutive games on Monday Night Football before a huge Sunday afternoon that led into Thanksgiving Day and eventually a Thursday night tilt. America’s Team!

The Cowboys went 3-2 in those games and if they want to add to the win column here it will mean conquering the Minnesota Vikings. Kevin O’Connell’s...

When the Cowboys dropped to 6-6-1 after the Thursday night loss to Detroit, I felt what a lot of us felt, that punch in the gut that told us the playoff hunt may be over.

When I saw the playoff odds fall to 6%, it didn’t shock me, but it still hurt. At this point, we all understand this very clearly: if the Cowboys are getting into the postseason, it’s going to be by winning the NFC East.

There’s no other door left open.

The more I look at the numbers, the more obvious it becomes. The wild card isn’t...

The Dallas Cowboys (6-6-1) need help. Lots of it. This was true before they lost to the Detroit Lions last week, but that result exacerbated the issue. If the Cowboys want to be a playoff team in 2025 then they have to win out and have a lot of things go their way.

Sunday’s NFL action did not exactly bring any of these things. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost, which was nice in the sense that they could be a contender for a Wild Card spot, but we are really reaching to use that as a positive data point. No...

After the bye week additions of Quinnen Williams and Logan Wilson, along with the return of DeMarvion Overshown, the Cowboys’ run defense looked impenetrable.

They shut down Ashton Jeanty and the Raiders. Las Vegas had 12 carries for 27 yards in a 33-16 Dallas’ win.

Saquon Barkley and the Eagles fared little better the following week.

Philadelphia only gained 63 yards on 18 carries, with Barkley throttled for 22 yards on 10 carries in the 24–21 Cowboys’ win.

The Chiefs cracked the code somewhat, gaining 119 yards on 23 carries.

But 30 of those yards came courtesy of quarterback Patrick...

3 recently-extended Cowboys should be released in 2026 – Mark Heaney, Inside The Star

Dallas could save money by letting go these three names.

3. Terence Steele: High-Cost Gamble Needs To End After 2025 Season

Lastly, we have Terence Steele, the Cowboys’ starting right tackle since essentially the 2020 NFL season. In December 2022, he tore his ACL and MCL in a major knee injury; not even a year later, Dallas gave him a five-year, $86M extension.

It was a huge gamble that banked on Steele returning to form. They tied themselves to him...