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FRISCO, Texas — Week 18 of the 2024 NFL season provides a stark contrast between NFC East rivals.
The visiting Washington Commanders (11-5) will push to solidify their place as the NFC’s sixth seed with postseason play set to begin next week while the host Dallas Cowboys (7-9) have a final chance to fight for head coach Mike McCarthy and his staff. The entirety of Dallas’ coaching staff’s contracts will expire at season’s end with owner Jerry Jones opting not to extend their original five-year contracts that began in 2020. Dallas clinched its first losing season since 2020, a year in which quarterback Dak Prescott also suffered a season-ending injury. The Cowboys went 12-5 three years in a row from 2021 to 2023, but they went 1-3 in the postseason in that span. McCarthy is well aware Sunday afternoon could be his last game at AT&T Stadium as the Cowboys’ head coach.
“I’ll be honest with you, I go to the stadium much earlier this time in my career than I used to,” McCarthy said on Thursday. “I won a Super Bowl in that home locker room at AT&T Stadium [as the Green Bay Packers head coach in the 2010 season]. So I have a very strong emotional attachment that it hits me every time I walk in there and every time I walk out. So, yeah, I’m definitely aware of it. … I’m not thinking about it right now, but, yeah, I’m definitely in tune with that.”
Dallas shocked the Commanders 34-26 in Washington back in Week 12 to snap a five-game losing streak in a game that was one of their most complete of the season. Their defense generated three takeaways — two interceptions and a fumble recovery — , quarterback Cooper Rush registered a career-high in completion percentage as a starter (75%, 24 of 32 for 247 yards and two touchdowns) and a special teams unit that returned two kickoffs for touchdowns — a 99-yarder by Pro Bowler KaVontae Turpin and a 43-yarder by defensive back Juanyeh Thomas on an…
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Author : Garrett Podell
Publish date : 2025-01-04 18:41:00
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