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Learn which TV channel or how to live stream the NFL Week 17 Washington Commanders and Dallas Cowboys game, Thursday, Dec. 25.

The Dallas Cowboys are barely clinging on to life in their hunt to make the NFC playoffs. The club, sitting with a 6-6-1 record entering Week 15, have sat bak and watched the full slate of games unfold before they hit the field for Sunday Night Football against the Minnesota Vikings.

The Dallas Cowboys find themselves in a familiar spot this season, which is "not in the playoffs." That now makes two consecutive seasons that the Cowboys have