Cowboys' playoff hopes hinge on an Eagles collapse. Discover which teams must falter and who Dallas needs to win, week by week.
FRISCO - Your Dallas Cowboys Rooting Guide for Week 15 is off to a good start.
What might unfold for the 6-6-1 Cowboys as we continue to march through Week 15?
We've covered the core challenge: The Cowboys' best shot at making the playoffs is a continuing collapse of the defending Super Bowl-champion Eagles, who have choked their way to three straight losses.
If Dallas can run the table to finish 10-6-1, while the Eagles lose two of their final four? Dallas - incredibly - wins the division.
But there are also still long-shot ways for the Cowboys to end up as a wild-card entry.
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So, in the interest of both paths ...
Your Cowboys Rooting Guide for Week 15 ....
*On Thursday, the Atlanta Falcons topped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7-7). That helps, as Dallas needs to leap-frog over three teams to be a wild card. And maybe the Bucs will play along.
*Cleveland Browns (3-10) vs. Chicago Bears (9-4): Root for the AFX team. That's easy. Go Browns!
*Green Bay Packers (9-3-1) vs. Denver Broncos (11-2): More AFC, so root for the Broncos.
*Indianapolis Colts (8-5) vs, Seattle Seahawks (10-3): Root for the Grandpappy Philip Rivers' AFC Colts.
*Tenneesee Titans (2-11) vs. San Francisco 49ers (9-4): Are we sensing an AFC trend here? Root for Titans.
*Detroit Lions (8-5) vs. Los Angeles Rams (10-3): LA won't be caught, so root for the Rams.
*Carolina Panthers (7-6) vs. New Orleans Saints (3-10): Root for the lowly Saints.
*And the main course: *Las Vegas Raiders (2-11) vs. Philadelphia Eagles (8-5): Kenny Pickett takes over at QB for the Raiders to play against his own team, in Philly, where the "Positive Vibes Bunny'' is dead ... and where Vegas could put the Eagles on life support in front of 80,000 booing fans. Root for the Raiders!