Jabrill Peppers punctuated Sunday's win over Washington with a series of backflips across the field. After losing five straight games to open the season and finally securing that first victory, the Giants safety could not contain his elation.
He would not have been wrong to perform a few more celebratory acrobatics on Monday night.
That was when the Cowboys lost to the Cardinals, a decision that dropped them to 2-4 and felt like a huge win for every other team in the division. The Cowboys are still in first place in the NFC East, but just one game ahead of the rest of the pack in the win column. With two of those teams meeting on Thursday night � the Giants and the Eagles � one of them is almost certainly going to join Dallas with an unimpressive two wins on the season but a share of first place if the Cowboys, who are all of a sudden swirling with internal turmoil amid reports that players are dissatisfied with the coaching, lose to Washington.
