Dallas Cowboys will face 4 new head coaches in 2026
It has been over a week since Super Bowl LX wrapped and the entire NFL shifted its attention towards the 2026 season. The Seattle Seahawks lifted the Lombardi Trophy and right after they did Klint Kubiak agreed to leave them and become the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. While staffs are having finishing touches put on them across the league, all head coaching vacancies have been filled and for the most part the important pieces across the NFL world have fallen into place in that regard.
We have known since the regular season ended who the Dallas Cowboys will be playing in 2026, but some of the questions about who would be the important figures of some of those teams remained unanswered.
There are four teams who the Cowboys will play next season that made head coaching changes. One of them is the New York Giants who the Cowboys will face both home and away, but the others are all teams that Dallas will host next season.
Here are the new head coaches the Cowboys will face in 2026:
- New York Giants (home and away): John Harbaugh
- Arizona Cardinals: Mike LaFleur
- Tennessee Titans: Robert Saleh
- Baltimore Ravens: Jesse Minter
While Harbaugh and Saleh are in their respective posts for the first time they have obviously been head coaches before. Dallas has had mixed results against Harbaugh’s Ravens in the past and beat Saleh’s Jets the only time they faced him.
For what it’s worth the Cowboys had three games of this kind last year, contests where they faced teams in the first year of their head coach at the time:
- Ben Johnson’s Chicago Bears (loss)
- Aaron Glenn’s New York Jets (win)
- Pete Carroll’s Las Vegas Raiders (win)
This is the kind of thing that is totally out of a team’s control as you never know who is going to be making changes at head coach. We will see how the 2026 Cowboys fare against these teams, and it will surely help that they were no longer be in the first year of their own head coach in Brian Schottenheimer.
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