DeMarcus Lawrence made it clear last offseason why he decided to sign with the Seattle Seahawks: He wanted to win a Super Bowl and thought he would be much closer to that dream than he would have been had he stayed with the Dallas Cowboys. He was right.
While the edge rusher's logic was sound, and on the surface, there might have been no menace in his opinion, the truth is that no one freely leaves somewhere they have worked for 11 years without some kind of disappointment with their employer. Lawrence likely had that.
Now he knows when he can pay that former employer back in a negative way. The Seahawks will play the Cowboys on Monday Night Football on December 7 in Week 13 of the 2026 season. This is the edge rusher's first chance at any revenge he might want to take on a team that did everything it could to not win a title.
Seattle Seahawks' DeMarcus Lawrence can have his revenge against the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones did add high-end talent at different spots, but he also installed himself as general manager decades ago. Instead of doing things the Seahawks' way, which is ownership letting the football people make football decisions, Jones thought he knew all there was to know.
Sure, soon after he took over as owner of the Dallas football franchise, he had success. The team chose a number of future Hall of Famers in those years around when Jones took over. But was the reason for the success him? Or head coach Jimmy Johnson?
And yes, Dallas did win a Super Bowl with Barry Switzer after Johnson and Jones had a schism and the coach left, but soon after, the Cowboys started to go south. They haven't sniffed a title since, and they likely won't as long as Jerry Jones has himself as general manager.
The shame is that he is ruining the careers of elite players like DeMarcus Lawrence. The veteran certainly understands that a team wins not just because it has a collection of good players, but also because of the culture of the organization surrounding those players.
In that last regard, the Seattle Seahawks are elite. The Dallas Cowboys are not. Lawrence chose wisely when he decided to join Seattle, and his leadership helped the defense become the best in the NFL. The same will likely be true in 2026, too, and the Cowboys will find that out in Week 13 when Lawrence can beat his former team.
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