The Dallas Cowboys 2025 season is officially over. After dropping their Week 18 game to the New York Giants 34-17, the Cowboys head into the offseason with a lot of work to be done. While the offense was as good as we have seen it in recent years, the Dallas defense gave up more than 500 points in the 2025 season and ranked near the bottom of the league in every advanced metric tracked by RBSDM.com.
The NFL coaching cycle is rocking and rolling and Tuesday evening saw it take an even more eventful turn as the Baltimore Ravens fired John Harbaugh. Pretty wild stuff. Way back in the middle of the season, the Tennessee Titans became the first team to be in the market for a head coach this cycle as they fired Brian Callahan.
The Cowboys' season never seemed to get off of the launch pad. It took the team 13 weeks to finally get over.500 for the first time. The three-game win streak, capped by a Thanksgiving Day win over Kansas City, put Dallas at 6-5-1 and gave the franchise hope for the playoffs. The three-game losing streak that followed ended the playoff hopes. Sunday's loss to the Giants sealed the Cowboys' fate of suffering a second-straight losing year.
"Yea, I would like there to be some clarity, for sure," Smith said ( via the team's website). "And I'll get that, we're going to have those conversations when we have a conversation later today. I'll kind of get that clarify from him and what their vision is and what they say. While Smith wouldn't explicitly endorse one position over the other, he did admit that he's naturally more comfortable playing at the guard position."
I watched the 2025 Cowboys defense, and it was like owning a jacked-up 4×4 that still gets stuck in the mud. The potential was obvious, but the execution? That's where the wheels fell off. We saw penalties in critical moments, missed tackles that made me question defenders, communication busts on seemingly every play, and the thing that bothered me most, the team didn't lack talent.
Following their decisions to shelve Brock Bowers and Maxx Crosby, the Raiders secured the No. 1 overall pick. After entering Week 17 in that slot, the Giants - as they did in 2024 - slipped out of the top two thanks to a late-season win. Big Blue's victories over the Raiders and Cowboys dropped them to No. 5, with today's win allowing the Jets, Cardinals and Titans to leapfrog them.
Securing good health for an older fella who's had some injury issues in recent seasons seemed like it would take precedence over finishing out the season. Plus, wouldn't they want to get a better look at their young backup, Joe Milton III? There was some buzz that they wanted Prescott to finish as the league's leader in passing yardage, who entered the week with a 34-yard advantage over Matthew Stafford.
Jaxson Dart is the captain now, and he has a firm grip on the starting job. Dart has flashed immense promise and, while not perfect, has helped put the Giants in position to win games... right before his defense gives up the lead. Sound familiar? Containing Dart and his ability to improvise outside of the pocket is key to limiting his effectiveness.
The season is over for the Dallas Cowboys which means that they are fully in offseason mode. Much will be said by the team's leadership about how they want to avoid a season like 2025 (and 2024 for that matter) moving forward which means that there is work to be done. One of the first points of work for the Cowboys will be tending to their set-to-be free agents.
I've watched Mafah play in college, and he is a back who sets the tone without talking about it. He's a downhill runner with patience in his approach and power in his finish. He doesn't play in a hurry, but there is not much wasted motion in his game. He presses the line, lets blocks develop, and the moment a crease opens, he gets vertical. What I think really stands out is how he handles contact.
Currently, the 7-8-1 Cowboys would be 14th in the draft order. Their other first-round pick from Green Bay won't be decided until we see how the Packers fare in the playoffs, but we know it won't be any better than 19th. This weekend really doesn't matter on that front, but it could have a tremendous impact on Dallas' original pick.
This time tomorrow, the Dallas Cowboys will be gearing up for their final game of the 2025 season; at best, it will be their first .500 season since the 2019 campaign - at its worst, 7-9-1. That would be the first losing season Dak Prescott has had in a year when he was fully healthy. Based on that, and what we've seen on screen since September, it is clear that changes must be made in Dallas this offseason.
Currently the defensive coordinator with the Vikings, Flores has been one of the best defensive minds in the league for the last few years. But his contract is up after this season, and Mike Florio recently lent credence to the idea that Dallas may pursue him. Few would be more thrilled than myself to see Flores on the sidelines in Dallas, especially after campaigning for him to be the head coach this past offseason, but the likelihood of that happening is exceedingly low.
Across 948 snaps and 694 pass-blocking reps, he's been charged with only 23 pressures, six QB hits and one sack, that's very clean for a first-year right guard. His overall PFF grade sits at 72.0 with a 62.4 pass-block grade and strong run-block numbers at 77.4, which ranks seventh among all guards this year. He's already a plus people-mover in the run
Bain Jr. is Miami's built-in chaos button off the edge, playing with low pads, heavy hands, and a first step that jolts tackles before they settle, with enough size to kick inside and handle guards on passing downs. He wins with leverage, torque, and a relentless motor that turns pressures into drive-killers, and he sets a sturdy edge for a guy his size.
2026 has officially arrived and here at Blogging The Boys we hope that it is off to a special start for you and yours. It is amazing to think that this site is over 20 years old and that so many people have been here through the entire ride. As we embark upon a new year and the subject of resolutions is all over the place, what should the Cowboys' resolutions be?
Other than determining where the Dallas Cowboys will be ultimately slotted in the 2026 NFL Draft, this Week 18 matchup with the New York Giants is a meaningless game anyway you choose to try to break it down. And no matter how much Brian Schottenheimer and several of the Cowboys starters say they want to go out and win this game, it may be more beneficial as far as the future is concerned to sit several of their key starters.
