Week 12 of the NFL season features a few rivalry matchups across the league, including the NFC East. Philadelphia hosts Dallas for their second contest of the season afte the teams met on opening night.
They’re not alone in their preparations, though.
Elementary school students in Camden, New Jersey – across the Delaware River from Philadelphia – took a unique approach to preparing for the Eagles-Cowboys game.
Video from FOX29’s Alex Holley showed students with boxing gloves on hitting punching bags with headshots of Cowboys players on them, including wide receiver CeeDee Lamb and quarterback Dak Prescott.
Philadelphia enters the week at 8-2 and the favorite to take home yet another NFC East crown. Dallas, at 4-5-1, needs a win to keep their playoff hopes alive in a competitive NFC wild card race. Both Prescott and Lamb view the matchup as a must-win playoff game.
‘Win or go home,’ Lamb said. ‘I feel like that’s the situation that we’re in. And I feel like that’s the right mindset that we gotta have going into every game.’
‘Understanding that for us to get into this postseason, what we have to do, and right now, sure, we control it,’ Prescott said. ‘And, right now, it’s Philly – a hell of an opponent, great division rival. There’s no better place to start than right now.’
Kickoff is at 4:25 p.m. ET from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. The kids from Camden are likely hoping for a repeat of the season opener which saw the Eagles take a 24-20 victory at AT&T Stadium.