ESPN analyst Seth Walder released a 100‑player MVP ballot that challenged conventional wisdom about the 2025 MVP race, placing Drake Maye and Dak Prescott at the top and leaving Matthew Stafford off the very top tier.
The Dallas Cowboys did not have the season that anyone expected, and they missed the playoffs despite having a relatively healthy roster. It is the first season since QB Dak Prescott was drafted that ended in a losing record without the quarterback suffering an injury that caused him to miss games.
2025 was a season to forget for the Dallas Cowboys. They went 7-9-1 under first-year head coach Brian Schottenheimer. The former offensive coordinator had the offense on track, with Dak Prescott leading them to 471 points on the season.
How many of the quarterbacks in NFL history to win a Conference Championship game before turning 27 years old can you name in five minutes?
Another mediocre season from the Dallas Cowboys cost quarterback Dak Prescott a shot at winning NFL MVP.
The best teams do not always win the Super Bowl. Sometimes, great NFL squads have failed to win a playoff game. Here are the best ones since the AFL-NFL merger to fall short of advancing in a postseason bracket.
The Dallas Cowboys hoped they would find success under first-year head coach Brian Schottenheimer in 2025, but that wasn’t the case. Schottenheimer worked incredibly well with veteran quarterback Dak Prescott, and the two had the offense humming all season.
Mike McCarthy last coached the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL. The NFC East team fired him after a 7-10 record in a tumultuous 2024 season that included a season-ending hamstring injury for Dak Prescott.
After selecting Brian Schottenheimer as their head coach this past offseason, the Dallas Cowboys were accused of playing things too safe. They didn't go for a big-name hire, but instead, went with a candidate they were familiar 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.
For years, Thanksgiving belonged to the NFL, but Christmas belonged to the NBA. Occasionally, an NFL game would fall on Christmas, but it was anomalous, even avoided if possible.
Jerry Jones has entered another defining offseason for the Dallas Cowboys, shaping decisions that will determine Dak Prescott’s next stage as the franchise quarterback.
Back in the offseason, I didn't have high hopes for the Dallas Cowboys to make the playoffs. I thought they'd win nine, maybe 10 games and fall just a little bit short of January football.
Jerry Jones was in his comfort zone on Wednesday, speaking to members of the media about the future of the Dallas Cowboys. Despite missing out on the playoffs this year, Jones believes there's plenty of reason for optimism in the near future.
Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys fell short of expectations during the 2025 NFL season, finishing 7-9-1 and missing the playoffs for a second straight year.
The Dallas Cowboys finished with a subpar record in 2025, going 7-9-1. Typically, the quarterback is the first player to hear criticism for such a finish, but that's not the case this time, as Dak Prescott wasn't the reason for their failures.
The Dallas Cowboys' 2025-26 campaign came to an unfortunate end on Sunday afternoon, falling to 7-9-1 in the first year of the Brian Schottenheimer regime, missing the NFL playoffs, and watching Dak Prescott miss out on the passing yards title after an incredible individual season.
The past two years have brought nothing but frustrations and disappointment for a Dallas Cowboys franchise that has lofty ambitions of competing for a Super Bowl title year-in, year-out.
Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys came up short in Week 18, falling to Jaxson Dart and the NFC East rival New York Giants 34-17 in the season finale.
The Dallas Cowboys enter Week 18 with NFL playoff hopes as a distant memory, but the team aims to end on a high note when they hit the field at MetLife Stadium to face off against the division rival New York Giants.
Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys are set close out their season on Sunday with a road game against the New York Giants. It will technically be a non-bearing game for the 7-8-1 Cowboys after they had already been eliminated from playoff contention, but Dallas will want to end its season on a high note.
The last time we saw these two teams play, it was in week two and, boy was it a thriller to start the season. That now seems like a long gone memory as both of these teams are ready for the 2026 offseason.
There is one game left on the Dallas Cowboys 2025 schedule, and it is once again a road division game versus a team Dak Prescott has owned throughout his career.
Dak Prescott passed for 307 yards and two touchdowns, and the Dallas Cowboys held off the Washington Commanders 30-23 on Thursday in Landover, Md. Prescott completed 19 of 37 passes for Dallas (7-8-1), which snapped a three-game losing streak.
This was a huge statement by the Cowboys signal-caller.
Prescott is sick of watching the playoffs on his couch.
Prescott made it known on Thursday that he "absolutely" wants to start Dallas' final three games of the season.
Dak Prescott put the Dallas Cowboys’ situation into perspective as the team’s playoff hopes went up in smoke. The Cowboys quarterback spoke to reporters late Sunday following his team’s rough loss to the Minnesota Vikings at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
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