Hope remains alive.
The Cowboys’ 41-33 win against the San Francisco 49ers, coupled with the Washington Football Team’s loss to the Seattle Seahawks, means the Cowboys will go into Week 16 with a chance to make the postseason, even with a 5-9 record.
In order to win the NFC East, the Cowboys will have to beat the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants, and Washington will have to lose to the Carolina Panthers and Eagles.
What all of this means, of course, is winning could cost the Cowboys’ serious positioning in the 2021 NFL draft.