Cowboys Tom Brady to Battle in Prime Time

As far as the 2022 regular season unfolds, it went down to the wire and the Dallas Cowboys made a valiant effort to potentially improve their playoff seeding heading into their Week 18 matchup against the Washington Commanders but in the end, they ended the week where they started it.

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