The Dallas Cowboys lost to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday night, and since they did, they are almost fully eliminated from playoff contention. Almost.<\/p>\n
Dallas is technically alive as it relates to a spot in the tournament as the winner of their division in the NFC East. It is incredibly unlikely and impractical that they would win it now, it was going to be difficult enough if they\u2019d beaten Minnesota, but it is still possible in a literal sense is all.<\/p>\n
Here is the situation relative to the division and overall NFC playoff picture as far as the Cowboys are concerned.<\/p>\n
Technically speaking the division is still alive for the Cowboys, but it would take a full and total Christmas miracle.<\/p>\n
The Eagles took care of business on Sunday and for what it\u2019s worth the Commanders won as well. Given the fact that Dallas lost the Eagles will clinch the NFC East with a win or Cowboys loss at any point across the next three weeks.<\/p>\n
Current NFC playoff picture<\/p>\n
While the Cowboys technically have hope for the NFC East (being technical!) they are done in terms of any potential Wild Card spot.<\/p>\n
The first team out remains the Detroit Lions, but they lost in Week 15 which opened the door of possibility all the more entering Sunday night\u2019s game. Considering that they and the Packers both fell\u2026 a Wild Card berth was still possible for the Cowboys, although that fizzled out with the loss to the Vikings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys lost to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday night, and since they did, they are almost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,35189,104,103],"class_list":["post-88276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys-playoffs","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}