The Dallas Cowboys are playing the final game of the NFL season for the third straight year and this time the matchup is against the Philadelphia Eagles and the game is at AT&T Stadium and the matchup will decide the NFC East division title and is the last open playoff spot left in the NFL and the winner of this game will play against the New Orleans Saints and they will host that postseason game Sunday Night Football Score and Results: Philadelphia Eagles Win Over Dallas Cowboys Week 17 Game For NFC East Division and Playoffs Against Saints.
The Eagles and the Cowboys both want to make the playoffs obviously and Dallas has been put in a tough situation with Tony Romo being out of the game with back surgery and now Kyle Orton is leading the way for the team against Philly. Romo was the main reason that the team won last week against the Washington Redskins after making a great play to get the victory and he now will be out for the playoffs if the team makes it.
The Saints made it into the playoffs as the six seed and that means they will travel to play one of these teams in the playoffs. The Eagles are trying to do something no team has done in years in having the top rated passer by rating in Nick Foles and the NFL's leading rusher in yards in LeSean McCoy and they have the team ranked in the top 10 overall and in passing and rushing yards and the team has been scoring point in bunches, including last week against the Bears.
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Last week the Eagles set up a huge matchup with the Cowboys after defeating the Chicago Bears at home after dropping 50 points on the team and now Nick Foles and the Eagles have the chance to make the playoffs against Dallas with a win on Sunday night football and here is more from Reuters.com: The Eagles destroyed Chicago's hopes of clinching a playoff berth on Sunday in a 54-11 blowout that sends both teams into a winner-take-all season finale next week.
The Bears (8-7) could have clinched the NFC North with a victory, but their chance slipped away quickly in Philadelphia where the Eagles scored the game's first 24 points and kept piling on.
Philadelphia (9-6) were already heading to a season-ending matchup with Dallas (8-7) that will determine the NFC East title and a postseason spot, and could have chosen to rest their players.
Instead, they played fast and furious from the opening kickoff to earn their most lopsided triumph of the season.
"It says a lot about the character of this team that we would go out and play as hard as we did tonight," Eagles guard Evan Mathis told reporters. "It would have been easy for us to take the night off, but that's not what this team is all about."
Chicago will have their own division and the playoffs at stake when they host a winner-take-all against Green Bay (7-7-1) next week.
The Bears will need to recover from their latest setback, which saw the Eagles run all over them for 289 rushing yards.
LeSean McCoy led the charge with 133 yards and two scores on the ground, while Philadelphia quarterback Nick Foles tossed for 230 yards and two scores.
Jay Cutler, returning to start in his second straight game for Chicago since he missed four straight with injury, completed just 20 of 35 passes with a touchdown and an interception.
He was sacked five times and did not get the Bears into the end zone until the final seconds of the third quarter where their deficit was 33-11.
"We didn't play Bears football, and that's probably the most frustrating thing, especially with what was at stake," said Bears linebacker Jon Bostic.
"We know we're better than what we showed tonight."
Philadelphia added 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to punctuate the rout.
Brandon Boykin returned an interception 54 yards for a touchdown and Bryce Brown added a 65-yard run to set off the crowd at Lincoln Financial Field.
Brown finished with 115 yards rushing.
His Eagles team mate McCoy is on the verge of winning the NFL's rushing title as his 1,476 yards leads Kansas City's Jamaal Charles by 189. (Reuters)
