Crew TNF: Rivalry Week in Dallas
Tonight's Cowboys–Buccaneers game features 6 franchises and 7 players.
Tampa Bay is at Dallas tonight, 8:15 Eastern, and it is #RivalryWeek. Seven Crew starters are in the game, across six franchises and four matchups. All four of those matchups are designated rivalries: pairs the schedule sets against each other in week 5 and the last week of every regular season. Two of them have a starter on both sides.
🕳️ TBH vs 🏎️ M&N
🕳️ TBH leads the rivalry 15–9, and it built that lead in week 5, where it has won eight of eleven. 🏎️ M&N has won the last three meetings, though. The middle one, 81.3 to 82.3, was decided by less than a point.
Those two rivalry games last season were 🕳️ TBH’s second- and third-lowest scores of 2025, 81.3 and 82.7.
CeeDee Lamb starts at receiver for 🕳️ TBH. He has been taken in each of the last seven Crew drafts, by five franchises, at 88th, 33rd, 20th, 13th, 5th, 4th and now 8th. 🏎️ M&N was one of the five, and it went 9–14 in his starts. For 🕳️ TBH he is scoring 27.7 a game, including 39.9 last week, and 🕳️ TBH is 1–3 in those games anyway.
🏎️ M&N is starting a kicker, and nobody else.
⚽ TPC vs 🦅 Pwns
These two have been rivals since 🦅 Pwns replaced 🗿 Mitch in 2022. ⚽ TPC leads 6–6 and has won the last two. The two meetings that settled a final place both went to 🦅 Pwns, though. The first was the 2023 Sacko game, 137.8 to 71.3, and the Sacko went to ⚽ TPC. The second was the 2024 fifth-place game, 145.1 to 97.4.
⚽ TPC had finished third in 2022. Falling nine places to the Sacko in one season is a drop only two franchises have ever beaten: 🦞 Doug in 2016 and ⏪ RTRO in 2017, ten places each.
Last week’s preview noted that 🦅 Pwns had never won in week 4. It lost 111.6 to 115.1, which ended its four-game winning streak and made it 0–5 in week 4.
Dak Prescott starts at quarterback for ⚽ TPC. He has been taken in nine Crew drafts by six franchises, and ⚽ TPC is the seventh franchise to start him. Emeka Egbuka starts at receiver for 🦅 Pwns. He scores 8.3 a game for it, against 12.7 for 👨🍳 M&R, which drafted him 77th last year. 🦅 Pwns paid the 50th pick.
🦞 Doug vs ⚜️ K&G
🦞 Doug leads 18–14 in thirty-one meetings, the most-played of tonight’s rivalries, and it has won the last three in week 5. The close ones all go the other way. Four meetings have been decided by less than two points, more than any other pair in the league has had, and ⚜️ K&G won all four. The latest was 132.8 to 131.5.
🦞 Doug starts nobody tonight.
Javonte Williams starts at running back for ⚜️ K&G. He has been taken in six straight Crew drafts by four franchises. ⚜️ K&G took him twice, in 2023 and 28th this year. His 30.3 last week is the second-best start of his Crew career. One franchise has started him and never won: 👨🍳 M&R, 0–8 in 2024.
⏪ RTRO vs 🎣 DTTW
After the 2018 season ⏪ RTRO led this rivalry 11–3. It has gone 3–12 since, and it now trails 15–15. The latest defeat was in last year’s playoffs, 151.5 to 170.1, on 🎣 DTTW’s way to the title.
🎣 DTTW starts nobody, and the defending champion is averaging 73.3 PPG. That is the lowest PPG through four weeks of any franchise-season on record, out of 192, and it is 16.5 below the next-worst. 🎣 DTTW has not reached 80 in any game this season.
⏪ RTRO starts Bucky Irving at running back and George Pickens at receiver. Each is scoring fewer points a game for ⏪ RTRO than for any other franchise that has started him: 11.1 for Irving, 9.2 for Pickens. Pickens has been taken in five straight Crew drafts by four franchises, and ⏪ RTRO’s 25th pick this year is the most anyone has paid for him.