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(CBS DFW) — The Dallas Cowboys travel into Week 5 with a grip connected the NFC East. They’ve won 3 successful a row, astir precocious putting up 36 points connected the undefeated Carolina Panthers, who boasted 1 of the NFL’s apical defenses. They’re followed by the Washington Football Team, who are disconnected to a disappointing start. What was expected to beryllium 1 of the NFL’s apical defenses is giving up yards and points successful bunches. If not for a just spot of luck, WFT could easy beryllium winless.
That would inactive enactment them lone a crippled down the 1-3 New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles. The Giants look to beryllium emerging from the increasing pains they’ve suffered with Daniel Jones successful caller years. The Eagles, however, are inactive adapting to beingness successful the Jalen Hurts era. While their young dual-threat backmost provides plentifulness of excitement, they’ve inactive mislaid 3 straight.
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CBS DFW sports anchor Bill Jones looks astatine the 3 NFC East matchups successful Week 5.
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Philadelphia Eagles @ Carolina Panthers, Sunday, October 10 @ 1:00 p.m.
The Eagles defence has fixed up implicit 40 points successful caller weeks. The Cowboys enactment up 41 2 weeks ago, and the Chiefs scored 42 past week. Dak Prescott threw for 3 touchdowns, and Patrick Mahomes had 5 of his ain successful those Eagles losses. While large losses to 2 of the NFL’s astir high-powered offenses isn’t needfully the champion measurement of a defense, it does suggest they are prone to allowing points.
The Carolina Panthers could invited backmost Christian McCaffrey from a strained hamstring. That would beryllium a boost to the unit. According to Jones, “Carolina is doing conscionable capable offensively, adjacent without Christian McCaffrey astatine moving back. Sam Darnold has recovered a caller location successful Carolina. He’s taking attraction of the shot erstwhile he’s not going up against Trevon Diggs and the Cowboys, of course.”
Darnold has been productive, erstwhile his violative enactment gives him time. He went 26-39 for 301 yards and 2 TDs against the Cowboys and 23-34 for 304 yards against the Texans. But their defence has been stifling, astatine slightest up until their archetypal loss.
“The Panthers came into past week’s crippled against the Cowboys with the number-one-ranked defence successful the league, fig 1 against the run, fig 1 against the pass,” Jones notes. “But we saw what the Cowboys did against them, enactment up 36 points connected Carolina successful the archetypal 3 quarters of that game.”
Philadelphia has been adapting to beingness nether second-year backmost Jalen Hurts. The Eagles person mislaid 3 consecutive aft their Week 1 triumph implicit the Atlanta Falcons. Hurts’ numbers person been solid, some arsenic a runner and a passer — 56.5 and 291.8 yards respectively — but his accumulation hasn’t led to wins.
According to Jones, “Philadelphia doesn’t person the aforesaid benignant of discourtesy that the Cowboys have, and the absorption is connected Jalen Hurts, arsenic helium tries to germinate into an NFL-caliber quarterback. He’s passed for a batch of yards, but a batch of that has been precocious successful games. Like a mates of weeks agone against the Cowboys they got implicit 300 yards due to the fact that they were truthful acold behind.”
New Orleans Saints @ Washington Football Team, Sunday, October 10 @ 1:00 p.m.
Washington is coming disconnected a precocious triumph implicit the Falcons, portion the Saints mislaid a pugnacious 1 to the Giants successful overtime. Both teams beryllium astatine 2-2, successful a play that’s already had its stock of ups and downs. Washington mislaid starting backmost Ryan Fitzpatrick successful Week 1, and has been led by the breathtaking though inexperienced Taylor Heinicke. The Saints had to woody with being uprooted from New Orleans.
“The Saints, it’s amazing, they started the twelvemonth with a 38-3 triumph successful Jacksonville against the Green Bay Packers,” Jones noted. “It was precise disappointing for them, past week, losing their archetypal crippled astatine location successful New Orleans aft having to transplant. Here successful the Dallas-Fort Worth area, they were moving retired astatine TCU for astir a afloat month. So it was precise disappointing for them to suffer that game.”
The Saints person besides had their issues connected discourtesy of late. Jameis Winston has lone topped 200 yards passing successful 1 crippled this season. That’s a acold outcry from the modular Drew Brees acceptable successful his years with the team. According to Jones, “it’s a conflict offensively, adjacent though Sean Payton is precise originative arsenic an violative play caller, with Jameis Winston astatine quarterback. And they uses Taysom Hill immoderate arsenic well.”
The Washington defence was expected to beryllium squad spot coming into the season. But they’re allowing 417.5 yards and 30.5 points per crippled truthful far, 4th and 3rd worst successful the NFL respectively. That’s with fundamentally the aforesaid lineup that made them 1 of the league’s top-ranked units past season. What defence volition amusement up against the Saints?
“I deliberation Washington’s defence is conscionable excessively tough,” Jones said. “I deliberation Washington has gotten disconnected to a disappointing start, due to the fact that a batch of radical prime them to triumph the division. But with a defence that’s beauteous solid, that’ll support you successful games.”
New York Giants @ Dallas Cowboys, Sunday, October 10 @ 8:25 p.m.
While the Giants are 1-3 and the Cowboys are 3-1, records often don’t substance overmuch successful part matchups. Daniel Brown is coming disconnected a vocation show against the Saints, piling up 402 yards and 2 TDs connected 28-40 passing. “Daniel Jones is playing the champion shot that he’s played successful his three-year NFL career. He’s present successful his 3rd year. He’s the NFC Offensive Player of the Week from past week, having thrown for implicit 400 yards against the Saints past week.”
And Jones volition pb a Giants squad into Dallas that easy could beryllium 3-1. “I wouldn’t slumber connected the Giants,” warned Jones. “When you look astatine what the Giants person done truthful far, their spot of docket has not been that great. But a mates of weeks ago, Thursday nighttime crippled against Washington, they had the crippled won. Dexter Lawrence jumps offsides connected the tract extremity effort by Washington that was nary good, gave them a 2nd chance. Washington kicks the tract extremity to win, 30-29. Then the adjacent week against Atlanta, they suffer connected a last-second tract goal, 17-14. They travel backmost and triumph past week. They could easy beryllium 2-2, if Dexter Lawrence doesn’t leap offsides successful that Washington game. And they could besides beryllium 3-1 if they conscionable propulsion retired that choky crippled against Atlanta a mates weeks ago.”
The Cowboys could easy beryllium 4-0, if not for the last-minute heroics of Tom Brady successful Week 1. Their discourtesy is averaging 420.8 yards and 31.5 points, some apical 5 successful the league. And Dak Prescott has been awesome successful his instrumentality nether center. According to Jones, “as agelong arsenic the Cowboys don’t wage attraction to the hype and support a level head, and truthful distant and proceed to tally the shot and person a balanced offense, similar they’ve had successful the past mates of weeks, they should beryllium capable to triumph this game.”
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