{"id":434027,"date":"2026-09-12T16:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434027\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:40:09","slug":"dallas-radio-host-predicts-cowboys-return-to-super-bowl-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434027\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas radio host predicts Cowboys return to Super Bowl in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the opener against the Giants set for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/dallas-cowboys-giants-time-tv-how-to-watch-22423002.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday night<\/a>, some of the biggest names in Dallas sports radio sent their listeners into the weekend with their season predictions for the Cowboys. Some were more bold than others.<\/p>\n<p>Sportsradio 96.7 FM The Ticket&#8217;s George\u00a0Dunham, for instance, is predicting the Cowboys will break their three-decades-long drought and make their way back\u00a0to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1996. Meanwhile his co-host is tagging them as first-round playoff fodder. Beauty is in\u00a0the eye of the beholder.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of their predictions below.<\/p>\n<p>George Dunham: &#8220;I think everybody [in the NFC East] is better, will have better records than they did last year. John Harbaugh, we&#8217;ll see on Sunday night, just his arrival there makes [the Giants] a better organization. Dan Quinn will have somewhat of a bounce-back in Washington, though I&#8217;m not sure about their offense. I think Philadelphia wins this division again because I think they&#8217;re gonna win around 11 games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I&#8217;m gonna give [Philadelphia] the division for the third time in a row, no one&#8217;s done that in the NFC East since the early aughts. And I have the Cowboys finishing second, and being a wildcard team, at 10-7. &#8230; My wildcard teams in addition to Dallas will be Seattle and the Chicago Bears. &#8230; I think Dallas will meet Philadelphia in\u00a0the NFC Championship game. And the Cowboys, for the first time since 1996, I&#8217;ll stick to it out of odds and a belief in Schotty and CP, that they will go to the Super Bowl this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Craig Miller: &#8220;I&#8217;ve also got Philadelphia winning the division, I&#8217;ve also got Dallas finishing second. I think Philly wins 11 games, I think the Cowboys win nine, and get a wildcard. I think Cowboys are\u00a0gonna be better \u2014 they can&#8217;t be worse on defense, I know we said that last year, but they really will be this year, and their offense will be fine. The schedule is really tough, that&#8217;s the one thing preventing me from making them an 11-win team. I think they&#8217;re borderline that caliber, but I think the schedule will be so difficult, they&#8217;ll be a nine-win team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u2026 I don&#8217;t know that Dallas wins a playoff game, I think it all depends on who they&#8217;re matched up against. If they&#8217;re the worst wildcard they get the best division winner \u2014 what if they have to go on the road to play the Rams in the first round? I&#8217;ll put it this way, I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ll be in the NFC Championship Game. I have the Rams winning the\u00a0NFC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bob Sturm: &#8220;After some humming and hawing, I&#8217;ve got the Cowboys as the wildcard. I chickened out. I have the Eagles with a divisional win at the final wire, I just trust their defense more than I trust Dallas&#8217; by quite a bit. And I hope by Thanksgiving my opinion has changed on that, but it hasn&#8217;t changed yet. &#8230; It&#8217;s just, it&#8217;s a tougher schedule. They&#8217;ve got a murderer&#8217;s row of defenses coming up once they get to October through December. It won&#8217;t be easy for the Cowboys&#8217; offense this year, if they&#8217;re gonna be great they&#8217;ll have to be great the hard way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Corby Davidson: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to take your Dallas Cowboys to win the division with the Eagles hot on their heels. And this is gonna be a banger of a race until the very end, but the Cowboys sneak in there with maybe nine wins or so. That gets them in. 10-7, my Cowboys prediction for the overall record.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the opener against the Giants set for Sunday night, some of the biggest names in Dallas sports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,93042,150725],"class_list":["post-434027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-cowboys","tag-tp-sports-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}