Sticky: Poll: How confident are you about this team going into 2026?

How confident are that the Cowboys have turned it around for 2026?

  • A. Very confident this team is a playoff team that can contend for a championship

    Votes: 45 15.1%

  • B. Somewhat confident this team will at least make the playoffs

    Votes: 99 33.1%

  • C. Withholding a strong opinion until after the season starts

    Votes: 108 36.1%

  • D. I have little confidence this team will accomplish anything of importance

    Votes: 47 15.7%
  • Total voters
    299
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I am so jaded by this history of this team over the last 30 years. Confidence is irrelevant. Show me something. I heard the usual post draft hype. Then I heard the pre-season hype. Now it's the training camp hype. But I have heard the same things for the last 30 years. I am using my head not my heart when it comes to this team. My heart has been keel-hauled behind Jerry's yacht for so long it no longer functions.

I think the defense has a chance to be slightly better than last year but I am not jumping on any bandwagon just yet. Show me a pass rush. Show me they can stop the run to the outside. Show me their CBs can cover somebody without getting flagged.

I think t is 50-50 they make the playoffs but that is a guess and experience as a fan talking.
 
DallasEast said:
Not sure fear is involved, but I did a quick Co-Pilot cross-reference of users who posted against those who voted when the poll was at 113 total votes (had to stop and do something else). At that time, only 26 members, or 23%, had both commented and voted. All polls with posted messages are different, but posting and voting patterns generally run the same across all polling threads.

The percentage drops when vote numbers grow larger. As an overall community, members prefer voting over voting and commenting.
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lazy?? no opinions ?
 
For those of us who've been here for all Cowboys SBs , we witnessed what a championship culture looks like. I'm not seeing it when we have an unproven HC who only got 7 wins the previous year. Now several people will bring up Jimmy went 1-15 before winning his first of two SBs. Jimmy also just won a CFB Championship a few years prior. He's a champion HC
 
GMO415 said:
For those of us who've been here for all Cowboys SBs , we witnessed what a championship culture looks like. I'm not seeing it when we have an unproven HC who only got 7 wins the previous year. Now several people will bring up Jimmy went 1-15 before winning his first of two SBs. Jimmy also just won a CFB Championship a few years prior. He's a champion HC
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Bold> I would hope not. The incoming first-year roster situations for Jimmy Johnson and Brian Schottenheimer are markedly dissimilar. It is a bad apples-to-oranges comparison to make.
 
Right now I'm not setting any expectations.. That's why I chose the one I chose it was the closest thing i'm just going to really wanna see some preseason games some real scrimmages 11 on 11


You know against our own team but more so a couple of the scrimmages we have I wish they would go a little more all out and stop making it a glorified breaking up into groups practice and really scrimmage..

But I'll start building a little more expectation when I see tackling real tackling people going to the ground that's why I want to see them against another team I want to see them really showcase some of that physicality that we're hearing but you can't really judge that against our own..
 
Flamma said:
Even though I agree with you, 12 wins doesn't mean you're a contender. We got 12 wins 3 years in a row and we were not contenders. Dallas can compete, but rarely contend for a championship. Since 1995 we had 2007, 2014, and arguably 2016. Other than that, we had zero chance at a championship, and I don't care what our record was. Our overall team was not good enough.
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Correct. We were never a super bowl contenders during the three 12 win seasons.
 
Cowboys5217 said:
LOL. How can you delude yourself like this? You ought to know better.

This isn't a playoff team at all. No chance. Can't sack the other's guy QB. That alone is going to cause another losing record.
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I'd have to ask the same thing back. How can you not assess the additions and see us as a playoff team? That might be even more delusional.
 
deerhunter11 said:
This looks like a solid football team on paper, but we still have the same GM and that is a negative factor here. Can this team win despite this problem, I sure hope so, we will find out in time. Good Post Coog. Let's hope for Super Bowl 6 brother. I think this is as close as Dallas has been to multiple playoff wins in a while. But will Ol Jerry behave, I doubt it, but just maybe Dallas can win anyway.
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I hear you on that, we shall see!!!!
 
It’s all hype at this point . Despite obviously having a better roster on defense no one knows how it’s going to shake out.

My biggest concern. No backup QB.
 
Diehardblues said:
It’s all hype at this point . Despite obviously having a better roster on defense no one knows how it’s going to shake out.

My biggest concern. No backup QB.
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No it's not. It's evaluation and assessment, which leads to an easy conclusion. This team should make the playoffs. Why would you pay much attention to the hype anyway?
 
Voted (D) im not expecting a good season again like I didnt last season. Hoping to be suprised like in 2016. They could have a good season possibly though. Depends on how good the defense is and/or if the schedule ends up not being as tough as it looks.
 
kskboys said:
No it's not. It's evaluation and assessment, which leads to an easy conclusion. This team should make the playoffs. Why would you pay much attention to the hype anyway?
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I don’t make any assessments until the season begins. The rest is hype to me.

Evaluation and assessment are over rated until results come in. That’s what I’m interested in evaluating and assessing.

Not sure why we’d expect this team will make playoffs. How can we know there’s not 7 teams better in NFC? What if Dak goes down. Predictions come dime a dozen my friend . It’s a long season.
 
kskboys said:
I'd have to ask the same thing back. How can you not assess the additions and see us as a playoff team? That might be even more delusional.
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Mainly cause we haven’t seen us perform yet. And I haven’t seen the rest of the NFC perform yet.

Could we be a playoff team? Sure. If our offense is as good and our defense is vastly improved. We could and should be a playoff contender. Will we make playoffs. Nobody knows.

But there’s always contributing factors like how much improved is rest of our division and rest of conference. Will there be any key injuries, etc.

To me it’s foolish to make such predictions. Pure hype and fools gold. Especially with our history this era.

Everyone needs to take a deep breath until at least kick off Sept 13th:)
 
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