Jerry Jones Fires Up Cowboys For Playoffs, Team Sees Super Bowl Streak End
The Cowboys have been active upgrading their defense in NFL free agency, and Jerry Jones believes that will make Dallas a Super Bowl contender.
The Dallas Cowboys entered 2026 NFL free agency seeking to improve a defense that performed poorly throughout the 2025 season. Team owner and general manager Jerry Jones believes the Cowboys accomplished that goal. "I don't know that since we've had free agency as we know it today, where it's really very viable, most teams involved very actively making deals if you will.
I don't know since that has evolved and come about that we've ever had this kind of reshaping of an aspect of our team. " Jones said at the Grand Prix of Arlington on Sunday, per the team's official website . The Cowboys were active in upgrading their defense during the early stages of NFL free agency.
They signed five defensive players on the open market and swung a trade for veteran Green Bay Packers pass rusher Rashan Gary to bolster a unit that ranked dead-last in defensive EPA per play in 2025, per the NFL's Next Gen Stats . In addition to Gary, the Cowboys acquired Otito Ogbonnia and Tyrus Wheat to continue reshaping their defensive line. That process also involved trading defensive tackles Osa Odighizuwa and Solomon Thomas to the San Francisco 49ers and Tennessee Titans respectively.
Dallas also added three experienced players to its secondary. Safety Jalen Thompson and cornerback Cobie Durant pencil in as starters for the squad, while P. J.