{"id":18046,"date":"2011-09-26T08:25:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T13:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18046"},"modified":"2011-09-26T08:25:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T13:25:53","slug":"monday-night-football-picks-washington-redskins-at-dallas-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/monday-night-football-picks-washington-redskins-at-dallas-cowboys-18046\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Night Football Picks: Washington Redskins at Dallas Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Redskins at Dallas Cowboys
\nMonday, 9\/26\/11, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 46
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 45
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten must have a big game against the Washington Redskins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Washington heads out on the road for the first time this year, picking up home wins over the New York Giants (28-14) and Arizona Cardinals (22-21) to start the season.\u00a0 The Redskins have managed to out-gain both of their opponents this year.\u00a0 The two teams have played at least twice a year during each regular season since 1961, with the only exception being the 1982 strike-shortened campaign.\u00a0 The Redskins trail, 40-60-2, with losses in 20 of the last 27 meetings.\u00a0 In Week 15 last year, the squad dropped a 33-30 contest at Cowboys Stadium as 9.5-point road underdogs, as its rally fell short after falling behind 27-7.\u00a0 Washington is 15-15 ATS over the last two-plus seasons, including 9-6 ATS on the road.<\/p>\n

The Redskins have talked a bit in the media this week about the upcoming prime-time battle, including cornerback DeAngelo Hall saying he\u2019d come after Dallas quarterback Tony Romo.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m going to be asking for some corner blitzes,\u201d commented Hall, as Romo is suffering from a cracked rib.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, Washington signal-caller Rex Grossman would be doing himself a great service in getting wide receiver Santana Moss the football, as he has registered 73 catches for 1,055 yards and six touchdowns in 12 career games in this NFC East rivalry.<\/p>\n

Dallas definitely has some injury concerns outside of Romo, but everyone was impressed with this toughness in leading the team to a 27-24 win over the San Francisco 49ers as three-point road favorites in Week 2.\u00a0 \u201cIt was very gutty,\u201d commented ESPN broadcaster Ron Jaworski.\u00a0 \u201cI think there were probably a lot of people surprised by that.\u201d\u00a0 Considering that wide receiver Miles Austin will not be participating in this meeting, tight end Jason Witten will need to step up.\u00a0 He has topped 100 yards receiving in each of the two games to start the season and had 10 catches for 140 yards in the second meeting in last year\u2019s series.\u00a0 Dallas is 10-8 ATS at home the past two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys will be looking for their first win to open a home schedule since Cowboys Stadium was put in play, which could happen tonight due to the Redskins dropping both games played inside.\u00a0 Defensively, a lot of the discussion begins and ends with start linebacker DeMarcus Ware, who has nine sacks in 12 games against Washington.\u00a0 Everyone inside the locker room knows how big this game is in terms of the division and\u00a0 playoff race down the road.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a big week for us,\u201d commented Witten in practice this week.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Cowboys due to their 4-0 ATS mark in Week 3, while the Redskins are 0-4 ATS on Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n

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Washington Redskins at Dallas Cowboys Monday, 9\/26\/11, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 46 Current Total:\u00a0 45 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Washington heads out on the road for the first time this year, picking up home wins over the New York Giants (28-14) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[124,531,5331,538,345],"class_list":["post-18046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-deangelo-hall","tag-rex-grossman","tag-tony-romo","tag-washington-redskins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18047,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18046\/revisions\/18047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}