{"id":88777,"date":"2025-12-15T17:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88777\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:24:12","slug":"eagles-magic-number-down-to-1-after-cowboys-lose-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88777\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles&#8217; Magic Number Down to 1 After Cowboys Lose Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/news\/eagles\/\" class=\"self-start link link-hover text-secondary uppercase text-sm font-body-bold font-bold\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            Eagles<br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/author\/kevin-kinkead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rounded-lg grayscale aspect-square\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765819452_8_43bbb22c59c46921d71fc0bb13b13b01dc27c4dc73bc3e3b54c8d1fec35b3694\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Kevin Kinkead\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1024\" height=\"661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/USATSI_27819780_168416197_lowres-1024x661.jpg\" class=\"rounded-xl aspect-video object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dec 14, 2025; Arlington, Texas, USA; Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) calls signals during the second half against the Minnesota Vikings at AT&amp;T Stadium.\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>                    Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys lost at home to J.J. McCarthy and the 5-8 Vikings:<\/p>\n<p>That means the Eagles\u2019 magic number to win the NFC East is down to one. One Birds win or one Cowboys loss and the division has its first repeat winner since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Remaining schedules:<\/p>\n<p>Eagles (9-5): at Washington, at Buffalo, vs. Washington<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys (6-7-1): vs. Chargers, at Washington, at Giants<\/p>\n<p>The best Dallas can get to is 9-7-1. The Eagles would have to lose out to get to 9-8. Barring a miracle, it\u2019s pretty much over for Dem Boyz. <\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rounded-full mx-auto sm:m-0 grayscale aspect-square\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765819452_8_43bbb22c59c46921d71fc0bb13b13b01dc27c4dc73bc3e3b54c8d1fec35b3694\" alt=\"Kevin Kinkead\" width=\"88\" height=\"88\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm mt-4\">Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team&#8217;s 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nemail &#8211; k.kinkead@sportradar.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-3xl font-display-bold font-bold\">\n        You might also like&#8230;\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eagles Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images The Cowboys lost at home to J.J. McCarthy and the 5-8 Vikings: That means&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-88777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88777","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=88777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}