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The Overhang: Cowboys-Eagles will help determine one NFC wild-card spot, so let's handicap the others

The battle for the NFC wild-card spots (well, two of them anyways) is tight as we enter the home stretch of the season. With apologies to the Dallas Cowboys — who are very likely going to the playoffs and currently the fifth seed entering their huge matchup Sunday night against the Philadelphia Eagles — and the somebody-has-to-win-it NFC South, I am using this week’s edition of The Overhang to ask a question of the four NFC teams with winning records vying for those final two spots with five weeks left on the regular-season docket.

(And if you want the question I was going to ask of the Cowboys, it was "Can Dak Prescott win the MVP award?