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Awesome article to get you prepped for Sunday. A little scary rehashing all those win and in games, but good.
FRISCO, Texas – After all this, after 16 games, just more than four months, going 8-0 in home games and just 3-5 in road games. After a five-game winning streak and a two-game losing streak. After losing Trevon Diggs and Leighton Vander Esch for the season yet riding the likes of Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb, Micah Parsons and DaRon Bland, to name just a few. After ending up with seven Pro Bowlers, two of those special teamers leading the league in their individual categories, and after surviving those Lions' three two-point conversion attempts with 23 seconds left to win by one point, this 2023 NFL season comes down to this for the Dallas Cowboys:
Beat Washington Sunday at FedEx Field to finish 12-5 for the third consecutive year and win the NFC East title for the second time in three years and the third time in the past five years.
That simple. Doesn't matter what the 11-5 Philadelphia Eagles do at the New York Giants starting at the same 3:25 p.m. time on Sunday. Doesn't matter that at one point the then 10-1 Eagles had a two-game lead on the 8-3 Cowboys after Week 12 of the season.
Just win, baby. And even if the Cowboys and Eagles finish tied at 12-5 come around 6:30 p.m. Sunday night, the Cowboys win the title on the fourth tiebreaker – their better NFC record, 9-3 to 8-4. The difference being the Cowboys beat Seattle and the Eagles did not, which also prevented the Eagles from becoming the first NFC East team to repeat as division champs since 2001-04.
https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-just-win-playoff-mentality-starts-now
FRISCO, Texas – After all this, after 16 games, just more than four months, going 8-0 in home games and just 3-5 in road games. After a five-game winning streak and a two-game losing streak. After losing Trevon Diggs and Leighton Vander Esch for the season yet riding the likes of Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb, Micah Parsons and DaRon Bland, to name just a few. After ending up with seven Pro Bowlers, two of those special teamers leading the league in their individual categories, and after surviving those Lions' three two-point conversion attempts with 23 seconds left to win by one point, this 2023 NFL season comes down to this for the Dallas Cowboys:
Beat Washington Sunday at FedEx Field to finish 12-5 for the third consecutive year and win the NFC East title for the second time in three years and the third time in the past five years.
That simple. Doesn't matter what the 11-5 Philadelphia Eagles do at the New York Giants starting at the same 3:25 p.m. time on Sunday. Doesn't matter that at one point the then 10-1 Eagles had a two-game lead on the 8-3 Cowboys after Week 12 of the season.
Just win, baby. And even if the Cowboys and Eagles finish tied at 12-5 come around 6:30 p.m. Sunday night, the Cowboys win the title on the fourth tiebreaker – their better NFC record, 9-3 to 8-4. The difference being the Cowboys beat Seattle and the Eagles did not, which also prevented the Eagles from becoming the first NFC East team to repeat as division champs since 2001-04.
https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-just-win-playoff-mentality-starts-now
