Dallas Cowboys — 2026 season outlook, updated Aug 31, 2026.
Dallas Cowboys finished the 2025 season 7-9-1 · Missed the playoffs.
Dallas Cowboys: 7-9 regular season.
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2025 · Missed the playoffs
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- 7th-hardest schedule — opponents average 8.73 projected wins.
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Cowboys Camp — Aug 31: Howell's Comeback Makes It Three Quarterbacks
The backup-quarterback race Dallas spent August running ended with no loser: Sam Howell's fourth-quarter comeback in the preseason finale flipped a competition that had leaned Joe Milton's way, and the initial 53 carries both of them behind Dak Prescott with no depth chart announced. The rest of cut day cut against pedigree — edge rusher Sam Williams released on a guaranteed deal, three drafted running backs waived, and the tackle depth churned in a two-trade weekend.
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- Camp · Aug 23, 2026
Cowboys Camp — Aug 23: Milton Outplays Howell in Glendale
Joe Milton took the backup-quarterback start in Arizona and went 9-of-13 for 176 yards with two touchdowns and a rushing score in a 34 to 13 win, while Sam Howell's half ended with an end-zone interception. Von Miller signed a one-year deal to join the pass rush, Shavon Revel supplied the summer's first live-game takeaway, and the Saints joint practice dissolved into fights.
- Camp · Aug 16, 2026
Dallas Cowboys Camp Update — August 16: Three Picks Off Stafford in One Practice
Christian Parker's defense dominated the Rams joint practice — three Justin Barron interceptions, five-plus would-be sacks — then held Seattle to 156 yards in a 17-7 win. The one missing item is the July stat itself: the stops came all week, but the game produced no actual takeaways.
- Camp · Aug 9, 2026
Dallas Cowboys Camp Update — August 9: PJ Locke Picked Off Dak Prescott in the Red Zone Today
The bought defense keeps taking the ball away from the offense that funded it — Locke's end-zone pick today, Durant's goal-line undercut, Downs everywhere. Eleven takeaways was last year's indictment; the renovation is producing them daily, in practice, against a top-five offense.
- 2026 Preview
Dallas Cowboys 2026 Season Preview — They Bought a Whole Defense
Dallas had the widest offense-defense gap in football — a top-five offense welded to the most generous defense in the league — then spent everything, including Micah Parsons' ghost, rebuilding one side; the offense's floor is real, the fix is unproven.
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