Once upon a time, the Dallas Cowboys were proudly America’s Team. In the midst of a dynastic run, with a roster overflowing with an embarrassment of riches, their dominance saw no end. However, those days are long gone, with the franchise not lifting a Super Bowl in nearly three decades.
In that timeframe, owner and general manager Jerry Jones has become one of the most ridiculed personalities in all of sports. While the fans cling to desperate hope, no combination has yielded success. As a result, for one NFL insider, their distaste for the team knows no bounds.
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For Kyle Brandt, the issue this time is specific to the roster the Dallas Cowboys are fielding going into the 2025 season. A year after winning just seven games, after signing both CeeDee Lamb and Dak Prescott to historic extensions, the team hasn’t seen a ton of change.
As a result, Brandt has his doubts about the team’s viability as a playoff threat. But he was far more brutal in his assessment, essentially claiming they were irrelevant for the time being. Speaking on Good Morning Football on the NFL Network, he broke it down.
“The 2025 Cowboys have me feeling nothing. Let me explain why. They are by far the least interesting team in their division – fourth out of four, I don’t know if that’s ever been true in my entire life. Even the Dave Campbell era had more sizzle than this team does.”
I was asked my feelings on the 2025 Cowboys.
I don’t have any. pic.twitter.com/kUKfmYCW9C
— Kyle Brandt (@KyleBrandt) May 5, 2025
Simply, they’ve become boring. “Even the small market teams have headlights and neon compared to America’s Team. The Titans are way more interesting, the Jaguars are way more interesting.” Both those teams are entering a new era with superstar quarterbacks or a roster overhaul.
On the other hand, the Cowboys have become run-of-the-mill mundane. “The Dallas Cowboys’ coaching hire was not a bold choice, it was sensible. The Dallas Cowboys’ first-round draft pick was not a bold choice, it was practical. The not paying Micah [Parsons] is a re-run of an episode we’ve seen 10 times from this team.”
What Brandt is referring to is the situation last season. Both Lamb and Prescott had to wait essentially the entire summer for their extensions that felt inevitable throughout the course of the offseason.
In the latter’s case, a historic four-year deal worth $240 million that made him the highest-paid quarterback in league history was signed the day before the first Sunday of football, after Game One of the 2024 season had already taken place two days prior.
For him, the team hasn’t given fans any reasons to be impressed or optimistic. “They are currently like the Tupperware of teams. It’s just something you have. You don’t think about it, you don’t care about it. You have no attachment to it at all. It just serves a practical need of being one of the teams in the league.”
However, he did clarify that not everything was bad or necessarily wrong with the team. “I’m not feeling anything negative about the Cowboys.” But, in a far worse twist of fate, and perhaps Jerry Jones’ worst nightmare, “I just feel numb. I feel nothing.”