Playoff scenarios can get pretty weird. None weirder than this one in which the Cowboys were watching the Raiders vs Broncos and rooting for the Raiders because if the Raiders won, the Cowboys clinch the NFC East.
Yeah, you read that right. A team in a different conference halfway across the country just clinched a completely different division because the Raiders 17-13 win over the Broncos in Las Vegas.
How does it work? Well, the AFC West and NFC East faced each other and due to strength of victory, that means even before the Cowboys take the field against Washington tonight, they clinch the division over the Eagles despite the Eagles beating the Giants earlier Sunday.
Meanwhile the Chiefs are on their way to once again clinching the AFC West with a decisive victory over the Steelers. The Chargers losing to the Texans earlier today set up that scenario. Nothing that happened in the Raiders/Broncos game was going to affect that.
