After an exciting regular season it's only right that the NFL season finale game will feature a Sunday Night Football game with extremely high stakes as the Washington Redskins prepare to host the visiting Dallas Cowboys at 8:20 pm ET with playoff dreams in the balance.
Washington (9-6) was struggling before this six-game win streak -- its longest since a seven-game run in 1996 -- put the Redskins into position for their first East title since 1999.
Rookie sensation Robert Griffin III has 20 touchdown passes to five interceptions to go along with six rushing scores, posting a 104.1 passer rating which ranks second in the NFL.
He returned returned to start last Sunday's 27-20 victory at Philadelphia after sitting out with a sprained right knee the previous week when fellow rookie Kirk Cousins led Washington to victory in Cleveland. Griffin completed 16 of 24 passes for 198 yards, two scores and one interception while only carrying the ball twice for four yards.
Now Griffin will make his first Sunday night appearance in the biggest game of his young career.
Meanwhile, the Cowboys must win on the road in Week 17 to earn the division title. It's exactly the same situation they faced last year when they fell to New York, which went on to win it all. They also lost at Philadelphia in the 2008 regular-season finale to miss the playoffs.
Dallas (8-7) had a three-game win streak snapped last Sunday with a 34-31 overtime loss to New Orleans that Jerry Jones called a "tough way to have Christmas." But Jones and the Cowboys got an early present later in the day when the Giants lost in Baltimore, eliminating the defending Super Bowl champions from contention in the East.
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