Thanksgiving Day's middle NFL game will feature a battle of two 3-7 teams, the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Football Team. Whoever wins that matchup will be the leaders in the NFC East.It hasn't escaped public notice in a division with big-market teams that the NFC East is really bad. It could wind up with the worst division Ben Roethlisberger T Shirts winner, record-wise, in NFL history. But each division winner is guaranteed a playoff spot in the NFL, so one team from the NFC East will be one of the seven teams in the postseason on the NFC side of the bracket. The Cowboys and WFT kick off at 4:30 p.m. ET on Thanksgiving in Buddy Johnson Jersey Week 12 to try and gain a leg up on the competition.In case you haven't been paying attention to the futility of the Eagles, Giants, Cowboys and WFT this season, we've broken it down for you. It really is po sible that moving to 4-7 can place a team in first place in a division, at least for a few days.MORE: NFC East standingsTeamWinsLo sesTiesWinning %Divisional recordStreakPhiladelphia Eagles3610.3502-2L2New York Giants3700.3003-2W2Dallas Cowboys3700.3001-2W1Washington Football Team3700.3002-2W1How Cowboys vs. Washingtonwinner gets first placeThe math on this is simple: As long as one of Dallas or Washington wins, that'll mean a ' Pat Freiermuth Jersey 4' in the win column and a spot at the top of the division with a .364 winning percentage. An unlikely tie would make things trickier since the Eagles are only a half-game better because of a tie already, but we'll get into the divisional tiebreakers below.The winner of Cowboys-WFT will hold first place at least until Sunday. That's when the Giants take on the Joe Burrow-le s Bengals. The Giants could only move into first place with a win in that game if Washington beats Dallas on Thanksgiving, because New York is 2-0 against the WFT this season but has a lo s to the Cowboys.The Eagles are back in action Monday night hosting the Seahawks. While Seattle will be a road favorite in that game, Philadelphia's path back into first will be as simple as a win. A 4-6-1 record beats a 4-7 record in the same way that a 3-6-1 record is currently better than a 3-7 record.NFL divisional tiebreakersThe following are the NFL's tiebreakers for determining placement within an individual Pittsburgh Steelers Accessories division:Head-to-head recordDivision recordBest winning percentage in common gamesBest winning percentage in games played within the conferenceStrength of victoryStrength of scheduleBest combined ranking among same-conference teams in points scored and points allowedBest combined ranking among all teams in points scored and points allowedBest net points in common gamesBest net points in all gamesBest net Najee Harris T Shirts touchdowns in all gamesCoin flipAs it pertains to the NFC East, this mostly means that how the division performs against itself the rest of the way could go a long way to determining the division winner, because the first two tiebreakers both relate to intra-division performance. That's also why the Thanksgiving Day game has outsized importance, not just for a temporary spot in first place but also a chance to start cementing superior head-to-head and division records.