The Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants stumble onto center stage for a Thanksgiving Day battle of backup quarterbacks, as the out-of-contention NFC East rivals have served up a combined six wins and 16 losses in 2024.Cooper Rush helped the Cowboys (4-7) return to the win column at Washington before the three-day prep for playing holiday host to backup-turned-QB1 Tommy DeVito and the Giants (2-9). New York lugs a six-game losing streak and some emotional drama to the table Thursday afternoon.”The fight has definitely been there,” Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy said. “But we’re still pretty far down in the valley of adversity right now. We’ve made one step in the right direction, so we’ve still got a lot of climbing to do.”The playoffs are an afterthought at the moment. Dallas is 14th in the NFC and the Giants are dead last with the final third of the season ahead.Beating the Commanders 34-26 on Sunday helped the Cowboys exhale if only briefly, and will now try to win at home for the first time in six tries. The Cowboys are shooting for a season sweep of the Giants for the fourth consecutive season.”It was great to get some wind under our wings, but this Thursday’s game comes on you so fast. That’s really where my mind is and my heart is, too,” McCarthy said.Last in the NFL in scoring (14.8 points per game) and 28th in passing offense at 187.9 yards per game, the Giants are devoid of highlighter-worthy names on the offensive scouting report.The last win for the Giants, 29-20 at Seattle, came one week after losing 20-15 to the Cowboys in September. New York is 0-4 against the NFC East including two losses by a combined eight points to the Commanders.Rookie Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers flashes big-play ability. He’s also not shy about sharing his opinion.Nabers received a good talking to from head coach Brian Daboll after he blasted the Giants’ effort and felt New York was “soft” in a 30-7 whipping at the hands of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday.Defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence shared the sentiment only days after openly pondering why and how the Giants decided to hand the starting quarterback job to undrafted Tommy DeVito at the expense of 2019 first-rounder Daniel Jones.”When you lose a game like that, there’s frustration,” Daboll said. “Certainly, you’d like to keep it in house. But you understand them, and I’ve been doing this for a while. There’s conversations that you have to have if comments like that are made. I respect the opinions of the players and of the coaches. We’ll work as hard as we can to get this fixed.”DeVito, now 3-4 as a starter after going .500 as a rookie in 2023, was under siege from the start against the Buccaneers. Defensive tackle Calijah Kancey virtually folded DeVito in half on a first-quarter sack and staggered him again with a jarring hit in the fourth quarter as he released a pass.Offensive tackles Jermaine Eluemunor (quad) and Evan Neal (hip) top the long list of injury concerns for the Giants. Eluemunor left last week’s game in the first half and couldn’t return.Extra blockers likely are mandatory to keep Cowboys pass rusher Micah Parsons from feasting. Parsons had 2.0 sacks at Washington, his second game with multiple sacks in three outings since returning from a high ankle sprain. He had two sacks of Jones the last time the Giants visited for Thanksgiving in 2022.