27 Unanswered in Landover: Washington Beats Philadelphia 27-10, and the NFC East the Cowboys Lost in Is Wide Open
Philadelphia led 10-0 and lost its sixth straight. Washington won for the first time in more than a year behind Jayden Daniels. Dallas, for all of Sunday's damage in Arlington, still sits ahead of both of them.
The last game of the Cowboys' worst Sunday of the season was also the best news of their day. Washington beat Philadelphia 27-10 on Sunday night in Landover, scoring 27 unanswered points after falling behind 10-0 in the first quarter, and the result leaves the NFC East without a runaway leader and without a functioning favorite. Jayden Daniels completed 16 of 29 passes for 217 yards and a touchdown and ran for 23 more, winning a start for the first time since October 5, 2025. He did it without his best receiver — Terry McLaurin is out for the season with a torn patellar tendon — spreading the ball instead to Treylon Burks, Stefon Diggs and Antonio Williams, who combined for 11 catches and 173 yards, with Diggs catching the touchdown.
Philadelphia's collapse is now a streak, not a slump. The Eagles are 2-6 after a sixth consecutive loss, playing without Jalen Hurts and with a visibly limited Saquon Barkley, who managed 30 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries while trying to stay loose through a back injury on the sideline. Tanner McKee threw for 212 yards and an interception that sealed the game late. USA TODAY's takeaway from the night was blunt: at 2-6, Philadelphia's front office should be looking at the trade deadline as sellers. The deadline is November 10 — the same one Dallas is working, from the other side of the market.
For Dallas, the arithmetic is the story. The Cowboys are 3-5 after Sunday's 33-30 overtime loss to Arizona, a game they led all day — and they still sit ahead of both teams that played Sunday night, Washington at 2-4-1 and Philadelphia at 2-6, in a division USA TODAY described as wide open and just two games off the pace for Washington. Nobody in the NFC East seized anything this weekend. Week 8 finishes Monday night with Chicago at Seattle, and the Cowboys' next divisional fact is the standings themselves: a losing team, in a losing division, with the deadline a week away and every rival's problems at least as large as its own.
