It appears that some are confused as to what to expect from the Dallas Cowboys in 2025.

Brian Schottenheimer’s Dallas Cowboys continue to divide opinion when it comes to expectations on what they could amount to in 2025.

Some have the Cowboys missing the playoffs altogether and finishing third in the NFC East with just seven wins.

Others have Dallas as a playoff team and potentially something more, but we haven’t found many who are stone-cold in their convictions about what this team can do.

But for Bleacher Report’s Brad Gagnon, in what he considers a “nightmare” season, Dallas ends the year without a playoff victory.

“Considering their resources and talent, failing to win a playoff game for a sixth time in seven seasons would have to be considered the extension of an ongoing nightmare in Dallas,” Gagnon writes.

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) passes the football in front of quarterback Trey Lance (15) before the game against the San Francisco 49ers at Levi’s Stadium.

Given how the Cowboys are being perceived and the unknown quantity about Schottenheimer’s team, there is still some talent on this roster.

Granted, not everyone is sold on Dallas in 2025 as anything other than an also-ran, but we feel that the playoffs are what this team should be achieving. Is that as a division winner? Who knows, but we have seen the Cowboys being mentioned as a Wildcard team over the past couple of weeks.

So, if this version of the Cowboys makes the playoffs and then loses their first playoff game, is that considered a “nightmare” scenario? We hardly think so. Yes, it continues the nearly three-decade drought, but it’s not a nightmare.

But getting to the postseason in Schottenheimer’s first season could be seen as somewhat of a success given the roster turnover, but this franchise wants playoff wins, and if that isn’t achieved, we can’t sit here and definitively say it would be the end of the world.

After all, Schottenheimer is getting more than one year to end this over three-decade drought.