Brett Maher kicked a go-ahead, 48-yard field goal with 2:19 remaining to lift the host Dallas Cowboys to a 40–34 win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Saturday, preventing the Eagles from clinching in the NFC East and the conference’s top overall seed in the playoffs.
The Cowboys (11–4), who trailed 27–17 with nine minutes left in the third quarter, got the ball back one play after Maher’s field goal when Anthony Barr recovered Miles Sanders’ fumble on Philadelphia’s 21-yard line with 2:07 to go.
Maher’s 26-yarder—his fourth field goal in as many tries—made it 40–34 with 1:41 left. The Eagles (13–2) turned the ball over on downs when quarterback Gardner Minshew’s pass on fourth–and–10 from the Cowboys 19-yard line fell incomplete in the end zone with 19 seconds remaining….