The penultimate week of the regular season has just about come and gone and the Dallas Cowboys remain mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. Sorry.
Obviously Dallas knew that their season would not carry on into the playoffs before their Week 16 game on Sunday Night Football when they wound up beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It was after Week 17’s version of SNF that the final Cowboys game of the season was finalized as the Washington Commanders took down the Atlanta Falcons and clinched a playoff berth which served as the final domino left for the NFL to set the Week 18 schedule.