At the beginning of the season, very few people would have guessed that by the time Week 7 rolled around the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Football Team would be separated by only one game. Both teams are on their second starting quarterback for the season and have no plans to go back.
Now, Dallas is only using Andy Dalton because of a season-ending injury to Dak Prescott, but Washington has decided to move on from Dwayne Haskins in favor of Kyle Allen.
Both of these teams are pretty bad this year. However, since the NFC East is all around bad, playoff hopes are still alive. Dallas will need a win to remain a half-game ahead of the Philadelphia Eagles and can’t afford losing to a team that is still rebuilding.
Here are five bold predictions for this NFC East battle.