For the second year in a row the Dallas Cowboys finished with a losing record, managing only seven wins in back-to-back seasons. They have a lot of work to do this off-season to hopefully right the ship and get back to their winning ways. Their main objective seems to be upgrading the defensive side of the ball, which was historically bad in 2025.

While it still remains to be seen who will replace Matt Eberflus as the Cowboys new defensive coordinator in 2026, that won’t stop any of us speculating as to how the organization will navigate free agency and...

All year long we’ve looked at the rookie class and given previews and reviews on each player for every game of the season. Now let’s look back the season in its entirety and breakdown each rookie and how they performed. Let’s start with first-round offensive guard Tyler Booker.

Season stats- Snaps: 1,003, Pass Blocks: 631, Pressures: 25, Sacks: 3, Penalties: 7

Booker’s first season in Dallas looks very much like the start of a long-term answer at guard after the departure of Zack Martin. Drafted 12th overall and dropped straight into the starting lineup, he finished his rookie year as...

The NFL’s Wild Card Round has officially come to a close and counting the two teams who were on bye during it, there are now eight squads left fighting for this season’s Lombardi Trophy.

As Cowboys fans it feels pretty incredible to have seen both the Packers and Eagles eliminated already. It goes without saying that having to root against your rivals is a worst-case scenario when your team doesn’t make it, but this is the current situation. If the 49ers can get bounced next then we would be able to enjoy the Conference Championships with relatively little stress.

While...

When I watch Caleb Downs, I’m not trying to project traits or guess at upside. I am evaluating what’s already there, and what is there looks like an NFL safety who just happens to still be playing college football.

Downs isn’t flashy for the sake of it. I see efficiency, decisiveness, and a player who is always around the football.

That is the kinda guy who lasts in the NFL, and players who defensive coordinators trust.

Caleb Downs Overview

Downs is listed at 6’00” tall and 205 lbs, and he has a draft range in the top-15, which...

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 Sean Martin and David Howman.

With the season finally over let’s have grades for this team. What grade would you give the Cowboy’s offense this season and who were the standout players, and biggest surprise?

Mike: Let’s give the offense a B+. The ceiling showed up in flashes, but the floor was too low, and toward the end of the season the floor was too often. Early-down inconsistency, red-zone...

Yes, you read that correctly, the Dallas Cowboys have a total of 22 pending free agents heading into the 2026 offseason.

16 of those 22 are unrestricted, meaning their contracts have expired and are completely free to negotiate and sign with any team in the league, with no compensation owed to the Dallas Cowboys.

With that said, I will drop all of those pending free agents here in a moment, and then I will get into the ones that I think Dallas should bring back for the 2026 season.

Pending Free Agents

So 22 players will be a lot...

Cowboys add former Cardinals HC, ex-Ravens LB to interview slate for coordinator job – Todd Brock, The Cowboys Wire

The Cowboys get judged on process just as much as results when it comes to coaching hires, which has made the latest defensive coordinator search interesting.

The list of known candidates for the position formerly occupied by Matt Eberflus is now up to six. Vikings pass game coordinator Daronte Jones and Browns safeties coach Ephraim Banda interviewed on Friday; Broncos pass game coordinator Jim Leonhard met with the team on Saturday. Current Cowboys defensive line coach Aaron Whitecotton made...

If it seems like nearly every decision made by the Dallas Cowboys’ front office this century has been wrong, that would be because that is precisely the case.

From draft picks to free agency moves and trades to coaching changes. When viewed in retrospect, they all have one thing in common.

Most of the time, the Cowboys made the wrong choice.

Draft Busts Abound

For every one pick Dallas got right, the next dozen or so were busts. The Cowboys made 23 picks in the three drafts combined between 2000-2002.

They only got two of them right in defensive...

The Houston Texans beat the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday night and in the process advanced to the Divisional Round of the playoffs. They will visit the New England Patriots on Sunday afternoon.

When the Texans head to Foxborough they will do so seeking their first Conference Championship Game appearance in franchise history. We obviously know a thing or two about title game droughts around here, but it is territory that Houston has literally never conquered. That isn’t so bad when you remember that they have been around since 2002.

In the early 2010s it felt like there was a slight...

One more NFL Wild Card playoff game, and it is tonight. The Texans take on the Steelers.

This is an open thread for game chat.

It’s no secret that the linebacker spot was one of the Dallas Cowboys’ weakest position groups last season. In the offseason, Dallas brought in a pair of veterans, Kenneth Murray and Jack Sanborn, hoping a change of scenery could bring out the best in the two veterans.

Unfortunately for the Cowboys, both acquisitions ended up not helping the team at all. Murray was undoubtedly one of the worst-performing linebackers in all of football, while Sanborn played in just six games before his season was ended due to a groin injury.

Outside of Murray and Sanborn, Dallas’s trio of young linebackers,...

Despite leading 21-3 in the first half, the Green Bay Packers fell victim to an epic Chicago Bears comeback and were bounced from the wild card round, 31-27. This is great news for the Dallas Cowboys, as the Packers’ loss secured them the 20th overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft courtesy of the Micah Parsons trade. Had the Packers won, that pick would have slid down to 25, and potentially even worse if Green Bay kept winning. Fortunately, that’s no longer a concern, and the Cowboys will now have two top 20 picks for the first time since 2005,...