Ezekiel Elliott: Cowboys ‘exact where we would prefer to be’ in NFC East
Throw out the tips reach Thanksgiving afternoon when the Washington Soccer Crew faces rival Dallas Cowboys. No, significantly. Throw them out and never leer at them again.
With each Washington and Dallas incomes Ws on Sunday and the Philadelphia Eagles losing, the entirety of the four-crew NFC East has three wins apiece. Meaning the winner of the Thanksgiving showdown will hold the division lead with four wins.
The Cowboys snapped a four-sport losing stir to fetch to three-7, beating the Minnesota Vikings on the motorway with an Andy Dalton-led 31-28 comeback.
“We never thought we were out of it,” Ezekiel Elliott acknowledged, by device of ESPN. “Our division’s been struggling this year. We’re exact where we would prefer to be with what’s been occurring with the division. We’ve got got to make on this success, so we are able to no longer reach out on a transient week and hold a step abet in opposition to a division opponent. We’ve got got to make certain that we make on the success and withhold making improvements to.”
Context is all the pieces.
In any other NFC division, the Cowboys would be within the basement. As yet every other, they’ve of endeavor to swoop into the lead with a Thanksgiving feast.
Sunday marked Dallas’ first pick under a starting QB no longer named Dak Prescott since Matt Cassel in Week 13, 2015 at Washington. The Cowboys scored greater than 20 capabilities and topped 375 total yards for the first time since Prescott’s effort in Week 5 in opposition to the Giants.
The pick over Minnesota puts the Cowboys in situation to kind a plod at the division title. Starting Thursday, Dallas plays exact one crew that has greater than four wins: Washington (3-7), Baltimore (6-4), Cincinnati (2-7-1), San Francisco (4-6), Philadelphia (3-6-1) and the Contemporary York Giants (3-7).
“There is a amount of soccer left to be played,” coach Mike McCarthy acknowledged. “It be indispensable to play your handiest soccer in November and December, so obviously with the utter of our division, that focal level is ours. We must pick Thursday, and this will be our first opportunity to in actual fact stack success, and that is the explanation the key to where we are as a crew. All three phases played properly. That is clearly doubtlessly the most rounded performance, victory now we glean had this year. It took us just a minute longer to fetch here, but I clearly mediate the lunge will kind us stronger.
“We must enact one thing with this pick. It wants to point out one thing.”
A loss to Washington would push Jerry Jones’ crew abet into the cellar of the NFC East. A pick would possibly enviornment up McCarthy for a postseason show in his first year in Dallas.