The Dallas Cowboys need to win one game to win the NFC East. They have two games left but let’s bet honest. If they don’t do it Sunday against the meandering Tampa Bay Buccaneers (5-9) do we really expect anything from them in the playoffs anyway?
There are plenty of reasons, however, to carry high expectations into AT&T Stadium on Sunday. The bad taste of last week’s shutout loss to the Colts could be long gone with a dominating division-clinching win against the Bucs. And it would allow the Cowboys to treat the season-finale against the Giants in New York they way they’d prefer, a reserved tune-up to the post-season where Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott and other key components are relaxing on the bench in the second half.