{"id":748184,"date":"2026-02-13T02:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/748184\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:01:17","slug":"dallas-cowboys-have-work-to-do-to-bounce-back-from-big-letdown-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/748184\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys have work to do to bounce back from \u2018big letdown\u2019 in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Super Bowl LX <\/a>is behind us, NFL fans are starting to look ahead to what other teams are doing to prepare for 2026.<\/p>\n

Pro Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman recently joined Sportsradio 96.7 FM\/1310 The Ticket (KTCK-AM),<\/a> where he shared his thoughts on whether Brian Schottenheimer has changed the culture in Dallas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho knows? It seems every year, there\u2019s a different storyline as to why or how this team is going to be playing in the Super Bowl,\u201d Aikman said. \u201cI just want to see it. We\u2019ve been talking about it for a long, long time. What\u2019s going to happen, what\u2019s not going to happen. How this year is going to be different. I think Brian Schottenheimer is a good coach. As far as changing the culture, I don\u2019t know that that happened. I don\u2019t know that it didn\u2019t happen. How do you know if you\u2019re not in the building?<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t make the playoffs, it wasn\u2019t a very good year. Whether your culture is good or not good. Whatever happened, it wasn\u2019t enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Aikman continued by saying the Cowboys have their work cut out for them as they look to improve from a 7-9-1 finish in 2025. <\/a>The former Dallas quarterback said it was a dissapointment that the team couldn\u2019t capitalize on a healthy season from Dak Prescott.<\/p>\n

Prescott appeared in all 17 games of the 2025 campaign, finishing the year as one of the league\u2019s top passers. He threw for 4,552 yards, 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions while completing 67.3% of his passes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have the type of season that Dak had and the offense had, and you failed to capitalize on it, that\u2019s a big letdown because you don\u2019t know if Dak is going to stay healthy. It\u2019s not easy to do and as you get older, it becomes even harder,\u201d Aikman said. \u201cCan he stay healthy again next year? And if he can, can the offense continue to play at the level that they did?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cowboys have plenty of topics to address before the new season begins. Aikman is hoping some of the team\u2019s defensive staff changes can turn things around.<\/p>\n

Listen to the rest of Aikman\u2019s radio appearance here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that Super Bowl LX is behind us, NFL fans are starting to look ahead to what other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[2886,230,1370,229,257,2461,7,6,16154],"class_list":{"0":"post-748184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-brian-schottenheimer","9":"tag-cowboys","10":"tag-dak-prescott","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-cowboys","13":"tag-dallascowboys","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-troy-aikman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116060860340858079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}