Monday night's showdown between the Cowboys and the Eagles will be the 34th prime-time matchup in the history of the rivalry, the most of any head-to-head series across the league. The Cowboys have a slight edge (17-15) against the Eagles in the prime-time matchups, but Philadelphia won the most recent instance in Week 1 of 2025 when the Eagles raised their Super Bowl LIX banner.

Other Team Notes

• The Eagles have won seven of their last 10 matchups against NFC East opponents, including three of the last four against the Cowboys.

• The Eagles have a 15-3 record at Lincoln Financial Field against the NFC East during Nick Sirianni's tenure as Head Coach. Philadelphia has captured four straight wins over Dallas at home.

• Over the last two weeks, the Eagles are one of only three teams with a perfect red zone TD efficiency on offense. The Eagles led the league in that category in 2025 (70.5 percent).

• The Eagles' defense held Carolina to a 51.3 completion percentage last week. Overall, Philadelphia's defense has recorded the sixth-lowest opponent completion percentage (60.4 percent) on the season.

• Special Teams Coordinator Michael Clay is in charge of the league's fifth-best unit in terms of EPA (15.97).

Offensive Notes

• Tanner McKee is one of only five quarterbacks over the last 20 seasons to average 240 yards per game and allow no more than one giveaway in the first three starts of their career.

• Jordan Mailata is Pro Football Focus' second-highest rated offensive tackle this season.

• Saquon Barkley has the sixth-most yards per carry (5.1) among NFL running backs this season.

• DeVonta Smith leads the Eagles with 310 receiving yards and ranks seventh among all NFL wide receivers in receptions per game (6.5).

• Sixteen of Dontayvion Wicks' 19 receptions this season have resulted in a first down.

• Darius Cooper is tied for fourth in the NFL with four touchdown catches and leads the league with a TD per target rate of 26.7 percent.

• Since returning from injury in Week 5, Dallas Goedert is tied for third among NFL tight ends with 12 receptions.

Defensive Notes

• Jalen Carter is one of only two NFL defensive linemen with multiple strip-sacks this season and ranks fifth among NFL defensive tackles with five tackles for loss.

• Jordan Davis has the fourth-highest run defense grade among NFL interior defensive linemen, according to Pro Football Focus.

• Zack Baun leads all NFL linebackers with four forced incompletions and ranks second with eight tackles for loss or no gain.

Special Teams Notes

• Jake Elliott is perfect on all five of his field goal attempts this season, including two of 55 yards or more. He is one of just nine NFL kickers to connect on multiple 55-plus-yard field goals without a miss this year. Including playoffs, Elliott has connected on a franchise-record 35 field goals of 50-plus yards in his Eagles career.

• Braden Mann is tied for first in the league with 14 punts inside the 20-yard line this season. Thirteen of them have come in one-score games.

• Britain Covey leads the league with five punt returns of 15-plus yards and is second in total punt return yardage (177). Covey is one of just four NFL players with a 40-plus-yard punt return and a 40-plus-yard kickoff return this season.

First Look at the Cowboys

• The Cowboys call pass plays at a higher rate than any other team in the NFL: 70.4 percent.

• The Cowboys use motion 56.3 percent of the time, the 30th lowest rate in the NFL.

• The Cowboys' defense plays with a single-high safety 56.6 percent of the time, the eighth-highest rate in the league.

• The Cowboys' defense uses man coverage 27.8 percent of the time, the 10th-highest percentage in the NFL.

Looking at the Cowboys' Offense

• From Weeks 1-4, the Cowboys were tied for second in the NFL, averaging 30.5 points per game. The Cowboys' 29 total points over the last two weeks are their fewest in a two-game span in games Dak Prescott both started and finished, since Weeks 12-13, 2019 (24 points in losses vs NE and BUF).

• Prescott is 38-11 against the NFC, the third-best record for any quarterback against division rivals since 1970 (min. 30 starts), while his 103.1 passer rating in those games is the second best (min. 1,500 passing attempts).

• Prescott has four interceptions over the past two weeks, tied for the most in the NFL. In the last two games, teams have blitzed Prescott 38.8 percent of the time (compared to 30.1 percent in the first four weeks). Against the blitz in these last two games, Prescott is completing 52.6 percent of his passes and has no touchdowns for a 67.2 passer rating. Will the Eagles blitz more? The Eagles blitz at a clip of 24.1 percent, the fifth lowest in the NFL.

• The Cowboys are just one of two NFL teams with multiple pass catchers with at least 30 receptions and 400 receiving yards. CeeDee Lamb has 48 catches for 577 yards (both rank third in the NFL) and George Pickens has 33 receptions for 428 yards.

A Note About the Cowboys' Defense

• The Cowboys have allowed at least 20 points in 13 straight games – the longest streak in franchise history – and in every game since the start of 2025 except for one. This season, the Cowboys rank 25th in points per game allowed (26.5), 29th in passing yards per attempt, and last in yards per play allowed and rushing yards allowed.