Feb. 9, 2026, 10:48 a.m. CT

DeMarcus Lawrence is a Super Bowl champion, although he had to leave the Dallas Cowboys to do it.

And now he’s reminding his former team’s fans that he was right all along, with a message that may be tough for America’s Team to hear.

The 33-year-old defensive end is finally in line for a ring after the Seattle Seahawks‘ 29-13 win over the New England Patriots, marking the first championship in the 12-year veteran’s career.

That it came in Lawrence’s first season in Seattle made the victory even sweeter, backing up a prediction he made back in March after leaving the team that made him a second-round draft pick in 2014.

“Dallas is my home,” Lawrence famously said after signing with the Seahawks in free agency, “but I know for sure I’m not going to win a Super Bowl there.”

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Now he has after just one season in Seattle. Lawrence posted two tackles, a QB hit, a defended pass, and a forced fumble as part of a smothering Seahawks defense nicknamed the “Dark Side” that maintained a shutout into the fourth quarter of Sunday’s contest.

Afterward, while celebrating in the locker room with his new Seahawks teammates, Lawrence was asked what he would say to Cowboys fans who cheered him on for the first 11 years of his pro career.

He echoed his earlier sentiment from the spring.

“I appreciate all my fans that supported me through it all, but at the end of the day, players win championships,” Lawrence told Josina Anderson of Exhibit News Network, “not logos. Don’t ever get it twisted.”

Ouch.

When Anderson pressed him to elaborate on why he believes the Cowboys aren’t in Super Bowl contention of late, the outspoken Lawrence elected to not fan the flames.

Much.

“I’m just focused on celebrating with my guys, enjoying this moment,” Lawrence replied, “leaving the past where it’s at. At the end of the day, I’m a Super Bowl champion now. I don’t have to even worry about situations like that no more. That situation is below me. I’m a champion; what are we talking about, really?”

Cowboys fans, by and large, still hold Lawrence as one of their own and were thrilled to see him hoist the Lombardi Trophy, even if living vicariously through him and his long-awaited championship run stung a little bit.

The inarguable truth he’s dropped about the state of the Cowboys only adds to the pain.

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