{"id":338800,"date":"2025-12-09T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338800\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:52:07","slug":"dallas-cowboys-playoff-picture-nfc-east-scenario-after-eagles-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338800\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys playoff picture: NFC East scenario after Eagles loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Dallas Cowboys lost to the Detroit Lions on Thursday night, but they were able to pick up some help on Monday night to make it hurt a little bit less. Shout out to the Los Angeles Chargers for beating the Philadelphia Eagles. Seriously. This is huge. It took overtime, but it happened!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cowboys\u2019 loss to Detroit coupled with the little bit of help (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloggingtheboys.com\/dallas-cowboys-nfl-playoffs\/191172\/nfc-standings-wild-card-east-division-week-14-results-picture\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">being generous<\/a>) they received across the rest of Week 14 made their hopes of a Wild Card spot seem all the more improbable. There is a strong argument to be made that the most probable path left for Dallas is as the NFC East winner and that potential reality became more possible thanks to the Chargers beating Philly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In order for the Cowboys to win the NFC East at this point they have to win out and pick up two more Eagles losses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Had the Eagles won then Dallas would have needed another loss from this group which would have been hard to imagine. This is why Monday night\u2019s result is so big.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While the Cowboys did lose last week the idea of them holding up their end of this bargain carries legitimate possibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cowboys will have to face these same Chargers next Sunday. Hopefully they keep up with the plan to help Dallas win the NFC East then, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys lost to the Detroit Lions on Thursday night, but they were able to pick up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[170469,349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-338800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys-playoffs","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}