Well, it is that time of the year again, and this week is when the full NFL schedule is going to be released, but like they always do they leak games before the official drop, and we now know when and who the Cowboys will play on opening weekend.
The NFL announced Monday morning that the Dallas Cowboys will head to New Jersey to take on the New York Giants on Sunday night, Sept. 13 at 7:20 p.m.
The Week 1 game is the Cowboys’ second to be announced for the 2026 season. The Cowboys will face the Ravens in Week 3 in the first-ever NFL game in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The NFL’s full 2026 schedule will be released on Thursday.
This will mark the 5th time that Dallas and the Giants have met in the season-opening Sunday Night football game.
2013, 2015, 2017, 2023 and now 2026. The Cowboys are 10-1 against the Giants in the last 11 that Dak Prescott has played. The last time they met on opening night, Dallas beat them 40-0.
Dallas has won 11 of the 12 regular-season openers against the Giants. Prescott is 14-3 against the Giants, with the 14 wins representing a streak that began after his rookie season in 2016.
The Cowboys hold a 78-48-2 all-time record against the Giants. The Giants are 1-0 in postseason games against the Cowboys, having beaten Dallas in the 2007 NFC Divisional playoff round when Tony Romo was the starting quarterback.
They’re still the NFL’s biggest brand …
• They’ve opened the season at 1 p.m. ET just once over the last 25 years (2002-26).
• Over the last 17, they’ve opened on NBC—either in the Kickoff game or SNF opener—12 times.
NFC East
The NFC East should be very good this season, and for the first time in a long time, the Giants should at least be able not to get boat raced every single time they play Dallas or the Eagles.
The Eagles will be good again, regardless of what you think about them. The Giants have Jaxton Dart and first-year head coach John Harbaugh, so everyone seems to think they are going to go from last to first, but although they will be better, I still have them finishing third.
The Washington Commanders are going to be more healthy this year, but did everyone fall into that trap because of how good they were in Jayden Daniels’ rookie season? I am not sure.
The Dallas defense is better today than it was a year ago, and I honestly think with George Pickens signing that tag, they might go into a season with no Jerry Jones drama for the first time in his life, and that is the biggest key for Dallas. It finally needs to be an offseason focused on nothing but football.
Sitting here today, my first guess about how this will play out is that the Eagles win the NFC East and the Cowboys come in second, but they will make the playoffs this season.
They won 7 games a season ago with the worst defense in all of football. They had to score over 33 a game just to give themselves a chance.
The Giants are going to jump to third and Washington is going to finish in last. I just don’t like Washington’s roster, I don’t know, but this division could be one of the better ones in football, probably the second in the NFC behind the NFC West.
I am looking forward to the start of the season a lot better than I was back in March. I can tell you that.
@getnickwright: “I don’t think the Cowboys have 14-win upside, but if Philly is closer to their floor than their ceiling, I think 10 wins can win the division.”
Work still needs to be done on the defense and I think they should re-sign Clowney to add another pass rusher who led them in sacks a year ago, but we have a long way to go before September, and I will be interested to see who the Cowboys play week two.
I say that because they start on the road against the Giants, then I would think a home game and then they go all the way to Brazil for a game, it is not a great start to the year travel wise, but hopefully they have three or four games in a row at home to make up for it.
We will see when the full schedule gets released on Thursday.
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