Coming off the 2025 season where they were arguably one of the worst, if not the worst, defensive units in the entire league, the Dallas Cowboys has spent the offseason focusing the majority of their attention on improving their defense. From the hiring of new defensive coordinator Christian Parker and his coaching staff to the trades, free agents, and draft picks they’ve added to the roster, defensively things are looking up for the Cowboys in 2026.

While we’re all looking forward to seeing what all of the new faces can add to Dallas’ defense this upcoming season, there’s plenty of...

Back in April, the Dallas Cowboys somehow landed Ohio State superstar Caleb Downs. It was the most excited many of us had been about something related to the team in a very long time, and every day we get closer to seeing him on the field.

One of the aspects of Downs’s inaugural season is his inevitable push for the NFL’s Defensive Rookie of the Year award.

The only Cowboy to win it was Micah Parsons in 2021, so fans are definitely ready for a bit of a palate cleanser to get that out of our collective mind. Downs has...

The overriding narrative for the Dallas Cowboys this offseason is that they have to fix their defense. The offense is contender-worthy, but that won’t get you very far if the defense makes every opposing offense also look contender-worthy.

To that end, the Cowboys overhauled almost everything on that side of the ball. New defensive coordinator in Christian Parker, new scheme in a hybrid 3-4 base. New players, new coaching staff.

But one problem must be solved on the field. That is getting turnovers. Last year the Cowboys were -9 in turnover margin, tied for the third-worst margin in the league....

Right now, every single one of the 32 NFL teams is excited about what they’re doing, and every single fan base believes that if things work out just the right way, their team will make the playoffs.

This is the time of year where hope springs eternal and everybody feels optimistic about the new season. As Cowboys fans, we collectively found reasons to be optimistic about a defense that’s been completely revamped – after all, it can’t get any worse, or can it? We’re still telling each other why the players the Cowboys added via trade and free agency are...

I know Brandon Aiyuk in a Cowboys uniform would look pretty darn good at first glance.

If you put him beside CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens, it would give the Cowboys three wide receivers who all win in different ways. Dak Prescott would have options for days all over the field.

Brian Schottenheimer could draw up some pretty crazy plays with those three lined up, and all I would be able to say to an opposing defense is, in my best bad guy from the movie Taken voice is, “Good luck.”

However, that may be the easy part.

The problem...

Rams writer just made a late-season Cowboys win feel like a Herculean task – Levi Dombro, The Landry Hat

Rams writer spills on what they feel about Cobie Durant.

Q: Cobie Durant has been a pleasant surprise in Cowboys offseason practices. As a Rams expert, do you think that this performance has been smoke and mirrors, or can he be a legitimate part of the Dallas defense in 2026 and beyond?

*A: Durant is a quality starting-caliber corner, just not the elite one the Rams needed on a championship-hopeful roster. Dallas might learn that lesson the...

Who would you say has the biggest potential to break out for the Dallas Cowboys this season? Before you answer, just know that ESPN provided theirs this week.

On Wednesday the worldwide leader offered breakout candidates for every team this season, and their selection for the Cowboys is both surprising and chalk. It is hard to be those things at the same time, but it happens.

DeMarvion Overshown, LB

This is less of a breakout and more of a re-breakout. Overshown lost his 2023 rookie year to a torn ACL in the preseason. When he returned to...

*It is Day 64 of our 100-day countdown to kickoff. We are looking back at the 100 most iconic games in Dallas Cowboys history. The countdown will leads us right up to the opening game of 2026. Our look back doesn’t depend on just one criteria for our rankings. We take into consideration things like how big the game was for the organization, how memorable the game was, games that had unusual events take place, games that are a part of NFL lore, Cowboys firsts, and games where the Cowboys just plain dominated. Variety is the spice of life and...

It’s been 10 years since the Cowboys spent a first-round pick on an Ohio State product, and both are arguably the most hyped-up picks Dallas has had over that time span. We can hope that Caleb Downs makes the same immediate impact that Ezekiel Elliott did, and that he enjoys a far longer period of success.

Background

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Acquired by: 2026 1st-round pick

Downs is no stranger to the spotlight. He was a top-ranked recruit coming out of high school, generally considered the nation’s best safety prospect. Coming out of Georgia, he spurned home-state teams and...

Long-time NFL pass-rusher Von Miller is a few things: a future Hall of Famer, one of the greatest defensive players of this generation, a Dallas-area native, and, most importantly, a free agent who is openly interested in becoming a Cowboy.

The 37-year-old former Texas A&M Aggie has bounced around the NFL since he was traded from the Denver Broncos in 2021, and he’s now looking to add another chapter to his book.

Miller, a two-time Super Bowl champion, won his second with the Rams in 2021, before playing with Buffalo from 2022-2024, and signing with the Washington Commanders for the...

The Dallas Cowboys pretty much wiped the slate clean on the defensive side of the ball after the completion of the 2025 season, bringing in an entirely new coaching staff as well as many new faces, but are running it back with the same offensive unit in 2026. This was an offense that was one of the best last season and has a chance to be even better this year.

Returning all of their starters from a season ago means Dallas’ offense should pick up where they left off last year. But, they shouldn’t be complacent with the past success...

What is it that they say about assuming?

Jumping to conclusions is a dangerous game. We have all done it, and we all will again, but declaring anything to be this or that has burned us all in the past. Sometimes that’s the way things go.

When these things work out we feel like geniuses. We knew it all along! No one could have ever predicted what we did!

But when we are incorrect… well, that isn’t a very fun feeling.

This is more about the latter.

The Cowboys assumption most likely to be wrong

What would you say...