2025 · Week 1 · Division

Final

Cowboys

Dallas

QB Dak Prescott

20·24

Eagles

Philadelphia

QB Jalen Hurts

Lincoln Financial Field · outdoors · grass · 75°F · wind 11mph

Closing spread

PHI -8.5

Total

47.5

Model margin

+3.9est.

PHI perspective

Push chance

None

half-point line — cannot push

Availability

The injury report

The official league filing for this week — game designations first, then who missed or was limited in practice.

Cowboys

Eagles

Win probability

  • Eagles
  • Cowboys

How each play moved the game.

Eagles winsCowboys wins

Matchup

Where the edges are

Season-long league percentiles for both sides, mirrored. The saturated side of a lopsided row holds the edge.

Cowboysedge mapEagles
  • +0.109EPA / play+0.034
  • 47.2%Success rate43.3%
  • +0.177EPA / dropback+0.092
  • -0.007EPA / rush-0.047
  • 8.3%Explosive rate9.0%
  • +1.89CPOE+3.26
  • 41.3%Third-down rate37.5%
  • 61.6%Red-zone TD rate72.0%
  • 2.53Points / drive2.11
  • 1.8%Turnover rate1.2%

Bar length is league percentile, already oriented so longer is better. The saturated side of a lopsided row holds the edge; rows within ~12 points are washed as even.

The rivalry

PHI lead 29–27 since 1999

DAL have won 2 straight. Meetings average 45 points. PHI are 27-28-1 ATS in the series.

Previous meetings
SeasonMatchupScoreWinner
2026 · W7DAL @ PHI38–21DAL
2025 · W12PHI @ DAL21–24DAL
2024 · W17DAL @ PHI7–41PHI
2024 · W10PHI @ DAL34–6PHI
2023 · W14PHI @ DAL13–33DAL
2023 · W9DAL @ PHI23–28PHI
2022 · W16PHI @ DAL34–40DAL
2022 · W6DAL @ PHI17–26PHI

Possession by possession

How it unfolded

Every drive: who had the ball, how far it went, how it ended, and the score as it settled.

Drive-by-drive log
BallStartPlaysYardsResultDAL–PHI
DALQ1 15:00753Touchdown7–0
PHIQ1 11:491070Touchdown7–7
DALQ1 5:551164Touchdown14–7
PHIQ2 14:561265Touchdown14–14
DALQ2 6:46931Field goal17–14
PHIQ2 2:34881Touchdown17–21
DALQ2 0:51629Field goal20–21
PHIQ3 15:00932Field goal20–24
DALQ3 8:301064Turnover20–24
PHIQ3 4:4437Punt20–24
DALQ3 3:10623Punt20–24
PHIQ4 14:461132Punt20–24
DALQ4 7:20416Punt20–24
PHIQ4 4:4337Punt20–24
DALQ4 3:02727Turnover on downs20–24
PHIQ4 1:54311End of half20–24

Box score

Individual performances

Cowboys

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Dak Prescott21/3418800

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Javonte Williams15543.62
Miles Sanders45313.30
KaVontae Turpin294.50
Dak Prescott133.00

Eagles

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Jalen Hurts19/2315200

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Jalen Hurts14624.42
Saquon Barkley18603.31
Will Shipley3268.70
AJ Dillon3103.30

Receiving

PlayerRecTgtYdsTD
Jahan Dotson33590
Dallas Goedert77440
Saquon Barkley45240
DeVonta Smith33160
A.J. Brown1180
Kylen Granson1110

Where this game is likely to land

  • Model
  • Smooth (normal)
  • Betting line

Probability of each final margin. Football scoring clusters — the spikes at 3 and 7 are real, and a smooth model misses them.

line +8.56.7%7.5%3.2%4.9%3.2%2.9%

Positive margins favour Eagles; negative favour Cowboys.

Half-point at risk

1.25%

outcomes that flip if the line moves 0.5

Model home win

59.5%

Expected total

45.8est.

Model

Where the number comes from

Each component is additive, in points of expected margin.

  • Team ratings (opponent-adjusted EPA)+2.21
  • Home-field advantage+1.71
  • Quarterback adjustment0.00
  • Rest differential0.00
  • Expected margin+3.91