We’re officially in the second half of the NFL season and something is becoming more apparent with each passing game: the most realistic path to the playoffs for the Dallas Cowboys is to win the NFC East.We spent the better part of Sunday rooting for everything that could help the Cowboys (any help is good help). While the Chicago Bears https://www.dallascowboysfanshop.com/Roger-Staubach-Jersey , Carolina Panthers, and Minnesota Vikings all won and kept themselves all the more in the discussion for a potential wildcard berth in the NFC... both the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers lost before the day was over. The NFC is stacked, but the Cowboys aren’t necessarily totally out of the picture. Dallas might be in the picture there, but they’re in the center of the frame for the division race, especially because the Washington Redskins lost to the Atlanta Falcons and dropped to 5-3 on the season. The NFC is loaded, but the NFC East is more than winnableThere are five non-Redskins teams in the NFC that already have five wins with one game left in Week 9. Should the Cowboys pick one up on Monday night against the Tennessee Titans they will still only have four on the season.While the playoffs don’t start next week or anything, what’s apparent is that things are going to be extremely crowded in the line to get a wildcard ticket in this conference. As true as that is it’s also true that the NFC East is looking for someone to ask it to dance and the Cowboys have a few songs coming up that could be the right rhythm if they try hard enough.NFC East standings through Week 9 (with Cowboys yet to play)Washington Redskins: 5-3 https://www.dallascowboysfanshop.com/Tony-Dorsett-Jersey , 2-0Philadelphia Eagles: 4-4, 1-0Dallas Cowboys: 3-4, 1-1New York Giants: 1-7, 0-3When the clock strikes zero on the scoreboard at AT&T Stadium on Monday night hopefully the Cowboys will have won, but the true gauntlet of their season will have begun. With every NFC East team having had a bye at that point, the Cowboys season will be defined by their next four-game stretch. After Tennessee the Cowboys will travel to Philadelphia (who are coming off of their bye and ready to debut new receiver Golden Tate), travel to Atlanta (who just helped us out by beating Washington 38-14) Randy White Jersey , host Washington, and host New Orleans (who just impressively announced themselves as the conference’s top team). This is a big deal because these are four formidable opponents and two of them are NFC East foes. The Cowboys have every opportunity to catapult themselves to the front of this whole group should they pick up the necessary wins, but if they don’t the season could get away from them rather quickly.The Redskins will play five of their remaining eight games on the road. Philadelphia still has to play both the New Orleans Saints (so do the Cowboys though, obviously) and the Los Angeles Rams. Perhaps more notable than anything when it comes to Washington and the Eagles is that both games between the two remain on the schedule. If the Cowboys handle their own business and have the two Redskins/Eagles games break in the direction that they want at the time then things could be awfully nice come Christmas time.Shout out to the Atlanta Falcons. We love you, but we also hope you lose by 100 points in two weeks, whoever you’re playing against. We said this for no reason at all. We learned early this week that the Cowboys had agreed to terms with undrafted free agent offensive lineman Larry Allen Jr. and the team has now announced agreements with 12 other free agents to go with the son of one of their all-time greats.The Cowboys note that the contracts won’t become official until next week’s rookie minicamp and that there may be additions to the list once that camp is ready to start.The current group includes four linebackers. Justin Phillips led Oklahoma State in tackles last year while Andrew Dowell started the final 29 games he played at Michigan State. The team also mined the Big 10 for Nebraska’s Luke Gifford and Northwestern’s Nate Hall.Dallas also remained set on adding to their offensive line. Indiana’s Brandon Knight, Clemson’s Mitch Hyatt and Central Missouri’s Derrick Puni joined Allen on the list.The Cowboys also agreed to terms with Kansas defensive lineman Daniel Wise Chuck Howley Color Rush Jersey , Kentucky defensive back Chris Westry, Toledo wide receiver Jon’Vea Johnson, North Texas wide receiver Jalen Guyton and Virginia Tech defensive lineman Ricky Walker.