Bitter rivals. Sunday afternoon. AT&T Stadium.The Philadelphia Eagles.

The Dallas Cowboys. A game that could decide the NFC East. The Cowboys (7-5) might have changed the course of their season last Thursday night with a statement victory over Drew Brees and the Saints in prime time.Dallas remains a flawed team. It has not yet solved its ills on offense Giants Customized Color Rush Jerseys , despite a four-game winning streak. But the Cowboys are a dangerous team. And with four .500-or-below teams remaining on their schedule, the rest of the division is playing catch-up.Enter the defending champs.Dallas can all but seal an NFC East title with a win Sunday over the Eagles (6-6). A victory would give the Cowboys a two-game lead, plus the head-to-head tiebreaker — it beat Philadelphia, 27-20, less than a month ago — with three to play.Meanwhile, Philadelphia’s final three games? At the L.A. Rams (11-1). Home against Houston (9-3). At Washington (6-6).But the Eagles looked dead as recently as last month, with poor play and locker room strife. Yet here they are. Speaking of the Washington Redskins, Mark Sanchez shall lead them.That exemplifies how far they have fallen in three short weeks.From 6-3 to 6-6. From Alex Smith to Colt McCoy to the Sanchize. Washington may stand only a game behind the first-place Dallas, but that deficit now feels nearly insurmountable with Sanchez quarterbacking the Redskins the rest of the way, beginning Sunday against the Giants.Here are some of the other big stories around the NFC East this week:Dallas CowboysNothing says rivalry game like trash talk. The Eagles, winners of two straight, are feeling good about themselves. And they’re talking. At least, LB Kamu Grugier-Hill is, Blogging the Boys’ RJ Ochoa informs us. The Cowboys are feeling pretty good about themselves as well. Let’s start with LT Tyron Smith, who returned to practice Wednesday. He has missed the past two games due to a stinger, but looks to be a go on Sunday.That bodes well for an offense that still has not hit its stride despite the significant impact WR Amari Cooper has made.In other injury news, it does not seem like LB Sean Lee will make his return this week. Jerry Jones said that the veteran will regain his starting role over eye-popping rookie Leighton Vander Esch when he does return. But Lee did not practice Wednesday.Want to know how the Cowboys turned it around, going from 3-5 and coach Jason Garrett on the hot seat to first place? Tom Ryle’s in-depth analysis on what the Dallas front office got right makes it clear that the turnaround began long before the season started.And a parting shot: How does Ezekiel Elliott’s $21 Salvation Army donation on Thanksgiving turn into a $13,369 fine? At least he doesn’t seem concerned:Philadelphia EaglesThe Eagles could return some important pieces for their showdown with Dallas. They had only a walk-through Wednesday because they played on Monday night, so they listed an estimated injury report. It said Jordan Hicks, Timmy Jernigan, Avonte Maddox New York Giants T-Shirts , Jalen Mills and Jason Peters did not participate.However, coach Doug Pederson made it sound as if all but Mills have a shot to play Sunday, writes Bleeding Green Nation’s Brandon Lee Gowton.On Monday night, Philly finally found a way to implement Pro Bowl WR Golden Tate, who caught seven receptions for 85 yards and a touchdown, despite playing only 48% of the Eagles’ snaps, according to Gowton. Can it continue? It very well might have to if the Eagles want to defend their title. But Tate, Jason Witten’s man-crush Zach Ertz, Alshon Jeffery and Nelson Agholor still make for an impressive and dangerous receiving corps.One more quality Gowton read: The Iggles go to Dallas as underdogs, a role they’re comfortable with — and one they just may relish. Washington RedskinsI would start with the good news 鈥?but there isn’t any right now.But meet the new backup quarterback, Josh Johnson. (Seriously, get to know him. At this rate, he might be starting next week.) He becomes the emergency quarterback behind the emergency-quarterback-turned-starter, Sanchez. Johnson played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2008, coach Jay Gruden’s final year with the Bucs as an offensive assistant. Familiarity with the offensive scheme was the key factor in the decision, as it was with Sanchez, the team says.Besides losing McCoy last week, possibly for the rest of the season, Washington also lost OLB Ryan Anderson (hamstring injury) for at least a week, writes Hog Haven’s Scott Jennings. It signed former Philadelphia first-round pick OLB Marcus Smith II. He recorded 6.5 sacks combined in three seasons in Philadelphia and one in Seattle. Meanwhile, LG Jonathan Cooper (torn biceps) is also done for the season, and RG Tony Bergstrom (high-ankle sprain) will miss a few weeks. Ty Nsekhe and Luke Bowanko replaced them Monday night.This https://www.giantsfanshop.com/hats , of course, is after they lost starting guards Shawn Lauvao and Brandon Scherff earlier in the season.The Redskins also placed Quinton Dunbar and Trey Quinn on injured reserve, Jennings writes. If you can bear it, Gruden addressed the replacements for the replacements on the offensive line and why the Redskins signed Johnson. EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Breathe a little easier Philadelphia and surrounding areas. The Eagles are back and looking super.Just goes to show you what a little urgency, some big plays — and a timely game against the New York Giants can do for the defending Super Bowl champions. Carson Wentz threw a season-high three touchdown passes and the Eagles got an early lift from their defense and special teams in beating the struggling Giants 34-13 on Thursday night, avoiding their first three-game losing streak since the 2016 season.“It’s a big win for us,” said Wentz, who finished 26 of 36 for 278 yards and no interceptions. “NFC East and the conference. It’s huge. Being 3-3 is better than 2-4. This is more like who we are. We can build from this.”The win put the Eagles into a first place tie with Washington (2-2) in the NFC East with Dallas (2-3) a half game back. The Giants are fading fast.Wentz sandwiched touchdowns passes of 13 and 1 yard to Alshon Jeffery around a 10-yarder to tight end Zach Ertz to help the Eagles build a 31-6 lead. They beat the Giants (1-5) for the fourth straight time and seventh in eight games.Corey Clement scored on a 1-yard run and Jake Elliott added field goals of 33 and 30 yards.“This is finally the game where we played like the Philadelphia Eagles,” said Ertz, who was limited to seven passes for 43 yards. “We’re finally the Eagles again.”Rookie halfback Saquon Barkley scored on a 50-yard run and rushed for 130 yards in one of the few bright spots for the Giants’ offense, which was booed repeatedly in losing at home for the third time. Aldrick Rosas had field goals of 33 and 21 yards.This was seen as a must-win game for both teams in the weak and wide-open NFC East, and the Eagles went out and grabbed it.They came into the game having scored seven points in the first quarter and they doubled that against New York.Eli Manning was under pressure all night from the Eagles. They sacked him four times and hit him 13 other times. He finished 24 of 43 for 281 yards.“We want to get after the passer every week,” coach Doug Pederson said. “These games are battles. It all comes down to which team gets after the passer. We hit Eli and put him on the ground. That was big.”It started on the opening series. Kamu Grugier-Hill intercepted Manning’s pass that was tipped by fellow linebacker Jordan Hicks and he returned it to Giants 16. Three plays later, Wentz was forced out of the pocket and found Jeffery after getting all day to throw.A 46-yard run by Barkley set up Rosas’ 33-yarder to cut the gap to 7-3, but the Eagles took control later in the quarter after DeAndre Carter returned a punt 23 yards to the New York 44. Passes of 17 to Jeffery and 14 to Clement set up Clement’s touchdown run.A spectacular tackle-breaking run by Barkley on a 55-yard screen pass helped cut the lead to 14-6 in the second quarter but Wentz hit a wide-open Nelson Agholer on a third and 3 and connected with Ertz for a 21-6 lead on the next play.Elliott made it 24-6 just before halftime and Philadelphia put the game out of reach with a 75-yard drive that ended with a short Jeffery TD catch.“We didn’t do anything well enough to win tonight,” Giants coach Pat Shurmur said. “Credit Philadelphia. Good football team.”The only thing meaningful after that was Barkley’s touchdown run.“How do I feel about my performance tonight?” Barkley asked rhetorically. “Doesn’t matter to me. We didn’t win.”FAN OF THE GAMEOdell Beckham Jr. headbutted a giant cooling fan during a second-half fit that also included him screaming from the sideline and eventually being calmed by Barkley. Beckham also left for the locker room before the end of the first half, though Shurmur said Beckham was excused early because of cramping.Beckham said his tirade was just a bit of self-motivation.“I was just trying to get myself going,” he said. “I felt like some of those plays where I was getting myself going was some of my best stuff. So I was just trying to get myself fired up. I did that and it helped me.”Thursday’s scene comes a week after Beckham bemoaned the lack of downfield passes from Manning and the team’s subpar energy following a 33-31 loss to Carolina. Beckham had six catches for 44 yards Thursday, and his longest reception was 12 yards.INJURIES: Eagles LT Jason Peters left with a biceps injury. Backup cornerback Sidney Jones left in the first half with a hamstring injury. The Giants had LB Ray Ray Amstrong (concussion), WR Cody Latimer (hamstring) and CB Antonio Hamilton (illness) leave the game.BARKLEY GAINS: Barkley has gained at least 100 yards from scrimmage in each of his first six career games. He is one off the NFL rookie record set by Kansas City’s Kareem Hunt.UP NEXTEagles: Host Carolina on Oct. 21.Giants: At Atlanta on Oct. 22.