When the 2025 schedule was released back in the spring, it was clear to every one, even Jerry Jones, that the Dallas Cowboys had to be at .500 or better by the bye week.
Six of the final seven games of the season would be against teams that made the playoffs in 2024 and would likely do so again.
The Cowboys 2025 bye week is next week, the 10th week of the season. They head into that bye now two games below .500 at 3-5-1 after Monday night’s loss to Arizona.
In short, this season is over at the midway point and this news must be made perfectly clear to Jones.
Do you honestly believe the team we saw last night isn’t going to get chewed up and spit out by the Eagles, Chiefs, Chargers, Lions, and Vikings?
Shoot, the Raiders will probably be favored to win in Week 11 when the Cowboys next take the field in Vegas. Probably because this guy is going to shred the Cowboys’ defense.
This story will run at six this morning Central time. I will post it around 11 p.m. on Monday night.
Jones, allegedly, has one trade in place to be filed sometime before this afternoon’s deadline.
He alleges that two more deals are in the mix.
I will say just this: Don’t bother. Call those teams up and tell them you changed your mind.
There are no combination of trades that can save this season.
So save the picks instead.
Trade some of the dead weight on this team, yes. But save all the picks you currently have for 2026.
Because it is time to commit to a full rebuild after this shipwreck sinks to the bottom.
No one is safe from the trade block after Monday night’s (non)performance.
No coach’s job is safe either. Nor should anyone in the front office feel comfortable that they will remain employed after the season finale in New York.
And that goes double for the Owner/GM and his trusty sidekick, Cap Boy Blunder.
Send Jerry Jones A Message
It’s time for the fan base to save the franchise and to do that we all must make a second thing clear to Jones.
The remaining eight games of the 2025 schedule are evenly split. Four at AT&T, four on the road.
At all four remaining home games, from the moment the first fan arrives to stand in line before the game, until an hour after they turn off the lights, you have one job.
Stand there and chant: SELL THE TEAM.
Yell it loud and clear every time the Arkansas snake oil salesman’s image graces the jumbo screens at AT&T.
Yell it every time you see him out in public. Every time any member of this accursed family shows their face, you must rain down these three words upon their ears:
SELL THE TEAM!
The 2025 season is lost. It’s time that we fight to save all the seasons that follow.
And the only way to do that is under new ownership. So get busy, my friends.
We have a franchise to save.
By The Numbers
Dallas is now 56-36-1 all-time against the Cardinals. The Cowboys are 32-14 against Arizona when the teams meet in Texas.
Arizona has won the last four games between the teams, eight of the last nine overall, and the last four played in Dallas.
The last time the Cowboys held serve at home against Arizona was a 34-13 win in 2005. Back when Dallas called Texas Stadium home.
The Cardinals are 4-0 all-time at AT&T Stadium.
The Cowboys are 30-33 all-time in Week 9 contests, with one missed game in the 1982 strike and two bye weeks, and 10-14 when playing at home.
Dallas has lost the last five Week 9 games overall and the last four played at home. The last Week 9 win at home was all the way back in 2017 against Kansas City.
The last Week 9 win anywhere was at New York against the Giants in 2019.
The final score of 27-17, was the 11th time a Cowboys’ game has ended in such a score, with Dallas now 7-4 in those contests.
What Were You Thinking?
You’re down 31 points with 12 minutes to go. Your offense has done nothing all game.
So why on Earth do you have your starting quarterback still in the game?
That’s a question Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn should be hearing every day for the rest of the season.
Quinn sent Jayden Daniels back out onto the field in Sunday night’s blowout loss to Seattle. He was rewarded by getting to watch Daniels suffer what is likely a season-ending elbow injury.
No matter what end of the blowout you’re on, at some point you need to start thinking about the long term and get your starters off the field.
Especially when they’ve already missed games this year due to other injuries.
Why Do We Have Replay Again?
Midway through the third quarter of the Bills 28-21 win over Kansas City, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw an incomplete pass on second and six at Kansas City’s 44.
After discussion, the officials threw a flag for intentional grounding. The Chiefs threw a challenge flag, correctly pointing out that the ball was tipped by a Bills player.
The challenge was disallowed as “there being no reviewable elements of the play.”
So, we can review if a ball was tipped to negate defensive pass interference, but not for intentional grounding?
I get it. A review of the rule book actually supports this decision.
Look for the rule to be adjusted this offseason.
Because if replay cannot be used to correct every missed or incorrect call, why even have the system at all?
Especially when what constitutes a catch seems to vary from game to game. And a clear video showing a ball not braking the plane does not overturn an incorrect call that allowed a two-point conversion.
The Chiefs still nearly tied the game at the end, but who knows what happens if that penalty is overturned?
In the other case, Texas still held off Vanderbilt, so that bad call did not cost them the game.
But if the replay system still can’t get the calls right, why have it? I’d rather not disrupt the flow of the game and just live with the bad calls like we did back in the before times.
