In this house, we root for former Dallas Cowboys to have success after they leave the team. That includes DeMarcus Lawrence, who admittedly exited on adversarial terms following an online kerfuffle with Micah Parsons.
Just one year after leaving the Cowboys, Lawrence hoisted the Lombardi Trophy with the Seattle Seahawks, who signed him to a three-year, $42 million contract last March. Seattle beat the New England Patriots pillar to post in a game that was never truly competitive.
Lawrence rubbed a lot of Cowboys fans the wrong way after signing with Seattle, saying that while Dallas would always be home, he knew for sure he wasn’t going to win a Super Bowl there.
Lawrence reaching the mountaintop less than 12 months after leaving the Cowboys is an all-time case of calling your shot, and it serves as one of the worst looks of Jerry Jones' tenure as the team's owner and de facto general manager.
DeMarcus Lawrence winning Super Bowl 60 is an awful look for Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones
There are bad looks, and there is what Lawrence did to Jones by saying that he knew he'd never win a Super Bowl with Dallas, only to turn around and win it all with Seattle.
The Cowboys have not won a Super Bowl since the 1995–96 season, which also marked their last appearance in the NFC Championship Game. The drought is on year 30 and counting. While there are reasons to be bullish about the 2026 season, the franchise isn’t any closer to ending it than it was 10 or even 20 years ago.
A second-round pick in 2014, Lawrence played in Dallas for 12 years. The closest they came to reaching the NFC title game with Lawrence was his second season, when they lost to the Green Bay Packers in the Divisional Round in the "Dez caught it" game. The controversial overturn allowed Green Bay to secure a 26-21 victory.
There's no way to sugarcoat it: the Cowboys are playoff chokers.
Those same Packers clobbered Lawrence and Dallas 48-32 as a road underdog in the 2023 Wild Card Round. In addition to Green Bay, the Cowboys were also bullied by the San Francisco 49ers in the playoffs during Lawrence's tenure, losing 23–17 in the 2021 Wild Card before falling short again a year later, 19–12, in the 2022 Divisional Round.
Whether it was sheer luck or Lawrence seeing something in the Seahawks that nobody else did doesn’t matter -- he was right.
Jerry Jones has endured no shortage of bad looks since he bought the team, but Lawrence shading the Cowboys on his way out only to win a Super Bowl with Seattle in the span of less than a year is as brutal as it gets.
This is the worst possible timeline for the 83-year-old.