The Cowboys have moved into the top spot in the NFC East betting picture, even if the division itself still looks like a mess.
At BetMGM, Dallas is listed as the favorite at +165, with the Eagles close behind at +175. The Giants sit at +325 and the Commanders at +800.
The book also has Dallas drawing the highest ticket percentage at 35.4 percent and the highest handle percentage at 48.7 percent. The Giants are the biggest liability.
Kalshi is showing a similar race, with the Cowboys carrying a 36% probability and the Eagles sitting at 34% as of publication.
The strange part is that the Giants are the ones currently sitting on top of the division at 3-1-1. They’re the only team in the NFC East with a winning record, but that comes with a few obvious asterisks: Jaxson Dart is out for the year, and every opponent they’ve faced has been below .500. That group includes the Cowboys, Rams, Cardinals, Commanders, and Titans.
Dallas, meanwhile, is 2-3. The Cowboys have beaten the Commanders and Texans, but they’ve also taken heavy losses lately to the Ravens and Buccaneers. Their defense has been a problem, and if Christian Parker can’t straighten it out, they’re looking at a losing season.
The Eagles probably should be sitting at 3-2, or at least that’s the sense here. Instead, they’ve dropped two games they had every chance to win while dealing with an injury report that looked like the guy from Monty Python and the Holy Grail who walks around town with the wagon saying “bring out your dead.” Philadelphia gets the 2-2 Panthers next, then enters a stretch of three straight against the Cowboys, Commanders, and Giants, with two of those games at Lincoln Financial Field.
By then, the division should have started to separate a little, and we’ll have a better read on who is actually going to win this wretched and miserable NFC East.
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