{"id":120327,"date":"2025-09-04T22:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120327\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:05:16","slug":"cowboys-vs-eagles-live-updates-how-to-watch-2025-nfl-season-kickoff-predictions-odds-and-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120327\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys vs. Eagles live updates: How to watch 2025 NFL season kickoff, predictions, odds and injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from Scoop City, The Athletic\u2019s NFL newsletter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/newsletters\/scoop-city\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up here<\/a> to receive it directly in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys, arguably the greatest marketing success story in team-sports history, finally might be underrated.<\/p>\n<p>When I asked eight NFL executives to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6592419\/2025\/09\/03\/nfc-rankings-eagles-packers-cowboys-lions-executives\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rank the NFC teams from 1-16,<\/a> the Cowboys landed 13th. This seemed low, but when I checked preseason Vegas win totals at BetMGM, the Cowboys were 13th in the NFC by this measure as well (a dozen teams topped their 7.5 projected win total).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s why that might be misleading: Although the top three AFC teams have higher average win totals than their NFC counterparts, the reverse is true in the eighth through 13th slots \u2014 teams just outside the playoff picture.<\/p>\n<p>As one exec put it: <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcac \u201cI think a team from the NFC is going to make the playoffs, that\u2019s like, \u2018Where the f\u2014 did that come from?\u2019 But it\u2019s going to be a team that just got super lucky. Whereas in the AFC, I don\u2019t think I got all seven right, but I bet I got at least five right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why not Dallas? The Cowboys have gone 36-15 (.706) in their last three full seasons when Dak Prescott started more than half of the games.<\/p>\n<p>My sense is Dallas might bounce back after two circuses of their owner\u2019s making left town. (Mike McCarthy playing out his contract in 2024 after three successive 12-5 seasons was one of them. Micah Parsons\u2019 public battle with Jerry Jones was the other.) Even if those situations were handled poorly, they are no longer distractions.<\/p>\n<p>There will be other distractions, for sure. Jones wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. It\u2019s just tougher to get much bigger than the head coach and star pass rusher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LiveBlogs_GoFurtherLabel__crP9X\">GO FURTHER<\/p>\n<p class=\"LiveBlogs_GoFurtherText__kkQ2L\">Seven predictions for 2025, including the top rookies, Cowboys\u2019 surprise and Super Bowl winner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following is an excerpt from Scoop City, The Athletic\u2019s NFL newsletter. Sign up here to receive it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-120327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}