The in-season version of Hard Knocks officially wrapped this week and in case you were unaware it spent the last few weeks chronicling the Dallas Cowboys and the NFC East as a whole.

The show that we all know and love pivoted to covering an entire division midseason last year with the AFC North and this season decided that the only division where every team has won a Super Bowl was the spot to be. That decision makes sense given when it was made as the Philadelphia Eagles were the reigning champions, the New York Giants and Washington Commanders are...

The Dallas Cowboys are going to be getting some inside knowledge. It was announced on Thursday that tight ends coach Lunda Wells is set to serve as the West Team head coach for the upcoming East-West Shrine Bowl. It was also announced that Aaron Whitecotton will be the defensive coordinator for the East Team.

It should be noted, for those unaware, that the Shrine Bowl is played at The Star so the Cowboys have a baked in advantage in that sense. Still though, having Wells and Whitecotton with the opportunity to directly interact with the players throughout his team will...

The Dallas Cowboys are searching for their fourth defensive coordinator in as many years. You already know that since it has been said a lot in the lead-up to, and obviously throughout, this process so far.

Isolating a filter, so to speak, on the time in question though, this is only the second time they are doing it in one particular way. To be clear this is only the third defensive coordinator search that Dallas has been a part of as Dan Quinn is a part of the “four in four years” narrative, but within the three searches only two...

We begin our 2026 NFL Draft preview of draft prospects that could interest the Dallas Cowboys. Today we are looking at linebacker Arvell Reese from Ohio State.

Arvell Reese

LB
Ohio State
Junior
4-star recruit
6’4”
243 lbs

History

On the recruiting trail, Arvell Reese was viewed as a high-upside, modern linebacker. He was the number five player in Ohio and the 19th linebacker nationally rating him among the top linebackers in the 2023 cycle. He committed to Ohio State in June 2023.

As a true freshman in 2023, he played in six games, with all 58 snaps...

There haven’t been any NFL Divisional round games played yet, but there already have been nine different head coach openings across the league.

John Harbaugh signing in New York is the first domino to fall, and there are eight openings left.

The AFC North nearly swept the entire division, with three of the four teams now needing new leadership on the sidelines.

Like most jobs, some are more attractive than others.

Today, I want to list the openings and discuss how each team ended up moving on from the head coach.

I will be working on more in-depth analysis on...

At the moment there are mime head coach openings in the NFL and one of them is within the NFC East at the New York Giants.

Obviously we have a level of interest in what the Giants do as Dallas Cowboys fans given that there are two games the team plays against them every year. The Cowboys have owned the Giants for the most part in the Dak Prescott era, so a decade now, even if they did lose a meaningless Week 18 game to them to close the most recent season.

Part of the reason for Dallas’ dominance against...

Cowboys fans have watched and learned enough to know something feels off, and the search for a new defensive coordinator definitely feels different.

This time around, the Cowboys aren’t just flirting with a couple of familiar names. We are watching the team cast a wide net, involving different coaching trees, and philosophies.

I’ve watched this cycle repeat itself more times than I care to count, and I keep coming back to the same question.

Is this a real change in philosophy, or did Brian Schottenheimer finally get a bigger say after Jerry’s last hand-picked coordinator blew up?

The Defense...

The Dallas Cowboys have 22 players with expiring contracts this offseason. They will have to make some tough decisions about who they will try to retain and who they will let walk. Some of the toughest decisions may come from their Restricted Free Agents (RFAs).

A RFA is a player who has completed three accrued seasons and has an expiring contract. They are free to negotiate and sign with any team, but the original team can extend a qualifying offer, also known as a draft tender. Each tender has a predetermined cost that is depending on which one is used....

With all the other offseason news happening right now, if you haven’t gotten the news yet, DaRon Bland, for the second time in as many years, underwent surgery on his left foot.

The surgery was performed by Dr. David Porter, a consultant for the Indianapolis Colts. Near the end of training camp in 2024, Bland had a screw inserted into his left foot to help with a stress fracture, so here we go again.

He is expected to be ready at some point in the offseason program with the focus on making sure he is 100 percent for the start...

Cowboys reach out to NFC East rivals as interview request for vacant DC gig continue – Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News

Dallas has put in interview request for multiple defensive coordinator candidates within their division.

And now there are eight.

The Dallas Cowboys requested two new defensive coordinator candidates to interview on Wednesday, a person familiar with the situation told The Dallas Morning News, in Philadelphia Eagles defensive passing game coordinator Christian Parker and Charlie Bullen, who finished the season as the interim defensive coordinator for the New York Giants.

Parker, 34, has been with...

In 2025, for the second time in three seasons, Dak Prescott started every game of the NFL season for the Dallas Cowboys.

It was also the second time he’d done son in the last five seasons. In 10 NFL seasons, he’s started every game in six of them.

Prior to this season, the Cowboys hadn’t finished below .500.

If you ignored the won-loss record and focused on Prescott’s numbers alone, you might have expected him to be a leading candidate for MVP.

But 7-9-1 records don’t win MVP hardware for quarterbacks in the NFL.

An Incredible Season

[Prescott was...

With the Dallas Cowboys season coming to an end, this is a good time to continue looking at the biggest needs for the team, and who the key prospects are in the first round they could take with either of their Day 1 picks. In this edition we look at the safety position.

Caleb Downs, Ohio State

Strengths:

Downs’ superpower is that he can play multiple roles without subbing. He’s a rare no-weakness safety who plays like a defensive coordinator’s remote control. Has elite eyes and takes great angles as a tackler who arrives under control and finishes consistently....