Best NFL games of Week 11: Goff, Keenum meet in NFC showdown
By Joe Schiller
2. Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles
The fact that this game isn’t No. 1 shows how good Week 11 is set to be. We’re in for a treat this week as two NFC East foes face off on Sunday Night Football. The best part is, this is the first of two meetings the rest of this season and there’s a lot on the line for both parties.
The strongest team in the NFL comes off a bye week even stronger. You can’t be playing much better than Carson Wentz is under center. He’s been everything the Eagles hoped and more now in his second year. It’s even scarier looking at the weapons around him. Alshon Jeffrey, Nelson Agholor, Zach Ertz and Jay Ajayi are all offensive players opposing defenses have to account for. Any team would be happy with just one or two on their team and the Eagles have them all. Give the defense credit as well, they’re still a top-10 unit this season.
On the other side, everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong for the Cowboys last week. Without Ezekiel Elliott and Tyron Smith, the offense was nothing like we saw the previous three weeks. Cowboys’ fans are praying every night that they come back ASAP. Adrian Clayborn got to Dak Prescott six, yes six times and made the best offensive line in the league look like a high school team.
At 5-4, the division still isn’t out of reach for the Cowboys but they have to win Sunday night. It won’t put the Eagles anywhere near panic mode, but it makes the NFC East a lot more interesting heading into the final weeks of the season.