Dallas Cowboys to play 2026 regular season game in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Calvin Watkins, Dallas Morning News
The Cowboys will head to Brazil in 2026.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Dallas Cowboys will play their first international game in more than 10 years with a trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the 2026 regular season, the NFL announced Thursday.
The date of the game and opponent will be announced at a later date.
The Cowboys last played internationally in 2014 in London, a 31-17 victory against the Jacksonville Jaguars. That was also their first regular season international game since the league started scheduling
games outside of the United States in 2007. Dallas’ 11-year stretch of not playing internationally was the longest in the NFL.
Overall, the Cowboys have a 2-7-1 record in international games, with nine of those contests being preseason games. The Cowboys have played preseason games in London, Tokyo and Mexico City.
Ranking all of the Cowboys 2026 free agents by importance – Jess Haynie, Blogging the Boys
The Cowboys have plenty of work to do this offseason. It starts with resigning their own.
The Cowboys have 22 players designated as free agents for the upcoming offseason. Today, we’re going to rank all 22 in terms of their importance to the team for being re-signed or replaced. Among these players, who should be Dallas’ top concerns?
There are multiple factors that contribute to these rankings. The biggest, of course, is how well a player has performed and is projected to in the future. But along with that, how badly is the team hurt if they depart? Is there another guy waiting in the wings who can probably maintain that performance level, or at least partially fill the void?
#4 – DE Jadeveon Clowney (UFA)
Clowney was Dallas’ best pass rusher by the end of last season. That wasn’t a tall mountain to climb, but that doesn’t diminish how good Clowney looked in the rotation and the value of his veteran presence. He’s not going to be a three-down player anymore, or even close to it, but he was better at his job than most defensive players last year. He should fit just as well in Parker’s scheme, and Dallas is looking at a potential edge rusher exodus with Dante Fowler and Sam Williams also free agents. If only one of them returns, we want Clowney.
Joe Milton reflects on learning moments, growth in year one with Cowboys – Tommy Yarish, DallasCowboys.com
How would you grade the first year of Joe Milton?
SAN FRANCISCO – Year one for Cowboys quarterback Joe Milton is in the books. After spending his rookie season with the New England Patriots, Dallas acquired Milton and a seventh-round pick before the 2025 season in exchange for a fifth-round pick.
Seeing his former team play in Super Bowl LX isn’t an odd experience for Milton, and he’s happy for his teammates that’ll play in the biggest game of the season.
“It’s gonna be cool, to be honest,” Milton said. “I already talked to them boys. I’m excited for them. Obviously, this should have been the Cowboys, but at the end of the day, you got to roll with the punches. We’ve got to get ready for next year. Enjoy the game, get you some ribs and chicken, call it a day.”
With New England’s quarterback room getting crowded both going into and after Milton’s rookie season, a fresh start made sense, and Milton felt it was needed.
“Hell yes,” Milton said when asked if going to Dallas was the change he needed. “Because I learned a lot. I feel like I cherished every moment that I had with Dak. I feel like he actually poured into my development, poured into Joe, so it was great. I learned a lot from him, I could talk about it all day.”
As he reflected on his first season with the Cowboys, Milton pointed to the fellow quarterbacks in the room having a big footprint in his growth from his rookie season.
“I learned a lot from Dak and Will Grier,” Milton said. “They are a tremendous blessing to me in my development at quarterback. I’ll say the whole aspect of being in the room with them, I don’t think I could ask for a better situation. They both pour into me, so that’s all I can ask for.”
With Dak Prescott specifically, the biggest lesson he took from the 10-year veteran came in the form of a question.
“What is my end goal?” Milton said. “If I want to be a starter, then be a starter every day. So that’s the goal, be a starter every day.”
Ex-Cowboys assistant Aden Durde is making immense impact on Super Bowl-bound Seahawks – Calvin Watkins, DMN
The Cowboys lost a good one to Seattle, and it’s not DeMarcus Lawrence.
Aden Durde is enjoying this moment.
Durde is in his first year as the Seattle Seahawks defensive coordinator, joining the franchise after spending three seasons as the defensive line coach with the Cowboys.
And before you say, “The Cowboys let a good coach get away,” first ask Durde.
“I was grateful for the opportunity Stephen [Jones], Jerry [Jones], Mike [McCarthy], [Dan Quinn] gave me,” he said. “I got to grow, got my own [coach’s] room, got to work with some amazing players and they’ve helped me to get to this point where I’m at today.”
Today, Durde is at the Super Bowl and his Seahawks will face New England on Sunday. Durde doesn’t call the defensive plays for the Seahawks, head coach Mike Macdonald does, but the impact he’s having is immense.
The Seattle defense finished the regular season No. 1 in point differential, points allowed and rush yards per attempt. Of the 47 sacks, 20 come from the defensive line, where DeSoto native Byron Murphy (Texas), Leonard Williams and DeMarcus Lawrence dominated the line of scrimmage. Seattle’s run defense hasn’t allowed a 100-yard rusher in 28 consecutive games, which includes the postseason, the longest such streak in the NFL.
