Dallas Cowboys' Performance Shift: A New NFC East Threat?

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00:00But, Lisey, on the Dallas side, this victory, I think, completely now changes for me how serious to take this team.

00:08Again, all in all, the performance against Philly didn't move me that much.

00:11They were down 21-0.

00:13Scoring 24 should not be enough in order to win that game.

00:16The Eagles' offense fell apart.

00:18We're going to talk about the Eagles in just a second.

00:19We will actually a little bit here.

00:21But beating Kansas City, winning three in a row, the offense having that type of performance was incredibly impressive for the Cowboys.

00:29And I think what works in their favor a little bit here, you can call it silly, but we've seen it play out too many times.

00:37Winning the NFC East in consecutive seasons has been legitimately impossible for over two decades.

00:45And if the Eagles don't win this division, I will blame it on the fact that it's the NFC East as much as anything else.

00:52There's going to be a lot of other factors.

00:53But I do think Dallas now feels a win away.

00:58They go to Detroit on Thursday from having a lot of pressure on Philly now, rest of season.

01:07And there's already pressure on Philadelphia, but I actually think Dallas has validated everything off of that game against KC.

01:14Well, I think for me, what you saw now validated on Thanksgiving is that they have an offensive identity, right?

01:21They have two guys and C.D. Lamb and George Pickens that could step up and take games over.

01:27And that was maybe what we believed in Philadelphia with A.J. and Devontae whenever the chips were in the middle of the table.

01:36But we haven't seen that type of consistency now.

01:40Devontae Williams is a dual threat.

01:42And I think, quite honestly, the moves that Jerry made offensively and defensively, he's looked like a star right now.

01:50Now, we'll see if that could carry through in a playoff environment.

01:53But as long as Dak Prescott's healthy, this team could put up numbers, right?

01:57I still think they could be had outside of Dallas.

02:01I haven't seen them potentially step up in a road environment yet that I'm impressed with.

02:06They got smashed by Denver.

02:07They lost to Philadelphia week number one.

02:10Now, obviously, that's a long way away.

02:12I want to see them step up against better competition on the road.

02:16But, yeah, I mean, they are in a position.

02:19Am I buying back in on the Cowboys?

02:22No, because, again, I need more consistency.

02:28And I know that the three-game stretch is good.

02:30Yeah, yeah.

02:31But for me to say, okay, they're a legitimate game,

02:34and I still potentially won't buy in because Dak hasn't done it throughout his career.

02:38Look, the reality is, for Dallas, they still have to maybe win out in order to get into the playoffs, right?

02:47Because that would put them at 11-5-1.

02:50So I'm not sure 10-6-1 would get this team in.

02:54And as easy as, oh, they're going to be favored in all these games.

02:57Yeah, that's a lot easier said than done.

02:58This is a team that lost a home game to Arizona this year.

03:01They lost on the road to Carolina.

03:02They got smashed by the Bears.

03:04Let's not get crazy.

03:05But some of the Dallas uplift comes from the nightmare that has been the past couple of weeks for the Philadelphia Eagles.

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