Inside The Star
As the chase for the NFC East division title nears the halfway mark, two teams are starting to separate themselves.
Sadly, neither of them are the Dallas Cowboys. Dallas is now two games in the loss column behind both the Eagles and the Commanders.
Washington pulled off a miracle win on Sunday on the last play of the game.
The Eagles are getting healthy on offense and will keep the heat on Dan Quinn’s team the rest of the way.
In the meantime, the Cowboys are likely only going to stay out of last place in the division thanks to the Giants.
Here’s how the eighth week of the season played out in the NFC East:
It isn’t time to panic, yet, but after Sunday night’s 30-24 loss to San Francisco, it may be time to be deeply concerned.
Yes, Dallas is just 3-4 and could still get hot and make a run. Yes, Sydney Sweeney could also call me up and ask me to be her new boy toy.
Both are statistically possible. Neither of those events are even remotely likely to occur.
Although the Sweeney scenario is more likely by a few percentage points.
Dallas played a nearly flawless first half, aside from Dak Prescott’s ill-advised heave it up and pray pass that was picked off. They still only led by four points at the break.
Then they took the third quarter off, got the brakes beat off of them, and came up short in a furious end of the game rally.
Just like they did against the Ravens earlier this year. It also resembled the loss to the Packers in January too.
Dallas is just not a good enough team to get behind every week and expect to win.
They were lucky they pulled it off against the Steelers a few weeks back.
The next four games on their schedule are filled with teams with a combined 22-9 record – and none of them have a losing record as of this week.
In other words, these are four teams Dallas cannot afford to get behind by three scores. Otherwise, that 3-4 record will be 3-8 and its season over.
Next game: at Atlanta, Sunday, Noon.
The first half of the Giants’ Monday Night loss at the Steelers can be described in two ways.
It was a great defensive struggle. Or, it was a snooze fest with two bad offenses.
Then again, maybe both are true.
Because the first touchdown that actually counted wasn’t scored until 10 minutes into the third quarter. And that came on a punt return by the Steelers.
This after three touchdowns were taken off the board in the first half of a 9-9 halftime tie. Two were by penalty and the other overturned by replay assist.
The Steelers took over the game in the second half and held off a late Giants’ surge to secure the victory.
Daniel Jones and the Giants are just...
