Apparently the NFL knew what it was doing when the schedule got here out final spring. That is the newest Washington and Dallas has ever met for the primary time in a daily season and it appears to come back on the excellent time as Washington has gained 4 straight to get to 6-6, simply two video games behind the Cowboys with 5 to play.
Take a look at what are workers riders assume will occur when the Cowboys go to Washington on Sunday.
Rob Phillips: This week’s feedback from Mike McCarthy and Ron Rivera have added a bit of additional juice to the matchup, however to me, Sunday simply comes right down to which workforce performs a cleaner sport. Washington gained its final two contests by a rating of 17-15. The Cowboys admittedly gained an unsightly one in opposition to the Saints. Is that this the week the offense will get rolling once more? It will be fascinating to see if they’ll get the run sport re-established in opposition to a Washington protection that is solely permitting 4.1 yards per carry this season. Perhaps the extra vital query is whether or not the passing sport can discover its rhythm and timing now that Amari Cooper is again. Washington’s four-game win streak with out some key gamers has been spectacular, and so they’ve been a significantly better defensive workforce the previous couple of weeks. However I am going to take the Cowboys due to their total expertise, discovering a solution to rating simply sufficient in one other one in all these dirty video games.
David Helman: The Cowboys have been ready for this second for the higher a part of a month. They’re wholesome, they’re rested and so they’re COVID-free. The reinforcements we have been speaking about since October are lastly right here. With all these additions on prime of what they’re already bringing to the desk, they need to be the higher workforce on Sunday. I get that it is a division sport. Washington’s protection is impressively salty for a gaggle that misplaced Chase Younger and Montez Sweat, and you’ll’t deny Taylor Heinicke offers them some type of spark. I do not care. I am going to gladly take the Cowboys’ rejuvenated go rush, to not point out Dak Prescott working with a completely wholesome offensive line and his prime three receivers. It’d take a while to get issues located, however I’ve obtained Dallas in a reasonably simple 27-13 win.
Nick Eatman: I feel a lot has been made in regards to the quotes Mike McCarthy mentioned this week after which the response by Ron Rivera and all of the back-and-forth. However to me I feel it is vital to dig just a bit bit deeper in what McCarthy mentioned in his prediction of the Cowboys successful the sport. I feel he really believes the Cowboys are only a higher soccer workforce with higher expertise and at last wholesome and nearly at full power, relying on Tony Pollard state of affairs. I mentioned earlier this week I felt this sport Sunday would be the hardest one but on the schedule. I do know Arizona is taking part in very nicely and have the most effective report however there isn’t any means they are going to be as determined as Washington might be on Sunday. For that purpose I feel that is going to be extra of a boxing match than a soccer sport. However I simply cannot visualize how Washington goes to attain a number of factors and I feel the Cowboys will work out a solution to a minimum of get to twenty … and in my head, that’ll be sufficient. Give me the Cowboys going to 9-4 with a 20-15 win.
Kyle Youmans: It is onerous to consider, nevertheless it’s been 33 years because the Washington Soccer Group has put collectively a three-game successful streak in opposition to the Cowboys. I am unsure how conscious Dallas is of that reality, however they’re undoubtedly conscious of the 2 beat downs that Washington handed them final season. I consider this locker room sees this as revenge alternative, therefore the sturdy confidence and mindset portrayed within the media all through the week. Dak Prescott has been borderline unstoppable in opposition to Washington up to now, and I feel that continues with all three of his prime receivers out there. Dallas will get the offense rolling and takes benefit on a pair defensive takeaways in a 31-21 win on the highway.
Mickey Spagnola: So 30 years in the past on Nov. 24, 1991, the Cowboys with a 6-5 report went as much as Washington to defeat an 11-0 WFT, 24-21, kick beginning a five-game successful streak to complete 11-5 and earn their first playoff berth since 1985. For symmetry sake, these Cowboys go as much as FedEx Discipline on Sunday to defeat the red-hot Washingtons by the identical rating, 24-21, and as a substitute of Michael Irvin the offensive star he was 30 years in the past, this time it is CeeDee Lamb, burning WFT by turning brief passes into large performs the Cowboys offense should generate if they’re to attain sufficient factors to defeat this workforce.
