Dallas Cowboys to keep NFC East top-seed hopes alive against Titans

The Dallas Cowboys are still clinging onto hope for the NFC East.

Dallas earned a 27-13 win over the Tennessee Titans in the final Thursday night game of the season.

But not only are their division hopes alive - they have a (very) outside chance at the No. 1 seed in the NFC.

Dallas would have to win next week, while the 13-2 Philadelphia Eagles would need to lose their final two games (this would give Dallas the division). But Minnesota and San Francisco each need to lose one of their next two games for Dallas to jump them in the standings.

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Tennessee entered Thursday by starting third-string QB Joshua Dobbs and without Derrick Henry, who is nursing a hip injury. It should be noted that Thursday's result means quite literally nothing for the Titans - next week's matchup with the Jacksonville Jaguars will determine who wins the AFC South, and who goes home, so perhaps Tennessee opted to rest its star running back.

Dallas was given an opportunity, and they did not let it squander.

The Titans couldn’t move the ball much on offense for much of the first half. Ezekiel Elliott scored the first touchdown of the game in the first quarter, and Dallas added a field goal early in the second. After that, Dak Prescott fumbled a snap and threw an interception on their next two drives – Tennessee was able to cut their deficit to seven, but as Dallas was driving down the field for the two-minute drill, Prescott again threw a pick, and the Titans had the ball at the opposing 41-yard line. After an impressive catch-and-run by Treylon Burks, Randy Bullock knocked a 29-yard field goal to make it a 10-6 game at halftime.

At the start of the second half, a defensive pass interference brought the Cowboys from their own side of the field to the Titans’ 6-yard line, so Prescott dumped one off to tight end Dalton Schultz that put Dallas up 11. Dobbs answered back with the Titans' best drive – and first touchdown – of the night, finding Robert Woods to make it a 17-13 game with just over two minutes to go in the third.

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But Dallas wasn’t fazed one bit. They came back with Schultz’s second touchdown of the night to regain an 11-point lead with 11:58 to go. After forcing the Titans' fifth punt of the night, Brett Maher drilled another field goal to give Dallas a 27-13 lead, and the Titans were unable to update their side of the scoreboard.

Fantasy football owners probably weren't thrilled with Prescott in the first half, but he did wind up throwing for 282 yards and two touchdowns, as Dallas was able to overcome his three turnovers. CeeDee Lamb led all receivers with 100 receiving yards on 11 catches.

As for Dobbs, in his first NFL start, he was 20-for-39 for 232 yards, throwing one touchdown and one pick. He also fumbled twice, losing one and recovering his other.

Dallas (12-4) will end their season at the nation's capital against the Commanders, as Tennessee (7-9) now gears up for what is now the AFC South championship game in northeast Florida. It's not known if Dobbs or Malik Willis will start in that game.

Arizona border agents seize 1.2 million fentanyl pills

Port of Nogales, Arizona border patrol agents stopped over 1.2 million fentanyl pills and four pounds of fentanyl powder from entering the United States on Wednesday.

Port Director Michael W. Humphries of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection gave a breakdown of the drug acquisition on Thursday.

"CBP officers stopped two loads on Wednesday," Humphries said on Twitter. "First load contained approx. 541,000 fentanyl pills, 4 lbs fentanyl powder and 37.55 lbs of meth concealed in doors and rear panels of cars. Seven hours later, approx. 689,200 fentanyl pills were found hidden throughout a vehicle."

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Just five days earlier, Humphries reported a seizure of 230,600 fentanyl pills in the spare tire of a wheel well of a car, and another 832,000 fentanyl pills in a different vehicle trying to enter the U.S. through the Port of Nogales.

Fentanyl seizures at the U.S. border with Mexico have continued to surge this year.

U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman issued a press release in August, saying, "The amount of fentanyl we are seizing at the border is staggering."

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The comments came as the Justice Department revealed that several ports in Southern California were at the center of a surge in fentanyl seizures at the border, where roughly 60% of seizures of the deadly drug took place in 2022.

But that rise has been seen at ports all along the border, with law enforcement agencies on both sides of the southern border making record busts in 2022.

Law enforcement officials have warned of a spike in deaths linked to the illicit drug — which is 100 times more potent than morphine and can be fatal in tiny amounts. The drug is created primarily in Mexico using precursors from China, and it is then transferred across the land border of the U.S.