{"id":24748,"date":"2012-09-03T11:55:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T16:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=24748"},"modified":"2012-09-03T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T16:55:16","slug":"nfl-week-1-picks-dallas-cowboys-vs-new-york-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-1-picks-dallas-cowboys-vs-new-york-giants-24748\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 1 Picks: Dallas Cowboys vs. New York Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants
\nWednesday, 9\/5\/12, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New York -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New York -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 46.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 45
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The New York Giants will open up the 2012 NFL season against the Dallas Cowboys on Wednesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dallas will have revenge on its mind when taking the field inside MetLife Stadium in the 2012 NFL season opener, as it\u2019s been eight-long months since it lost its regular season finale against its division rival.\u00a0 The Cowboys offensive line will need to do a better job protecting quarterback Tony Romo, as he was sacked six times in the 31-14 loss as three-point road underdogs on Jan. 1.\u00a0 Dallas has gone 4-1 ATS in its last five season openers, with the \u201cover\u201d going 7-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

Cowboys wide receivers Miles Austin and Dez Bryant should be ready to go, as both missed time during the preseason slate, while tight end Jason Witten is listed as questionable after suffering a slightly lacerated spleen on August 13 against the Oakland Raiders.\u00a0 If everyone hits the field, the offense has a great chance of improving upon last year\u2019s numbers, ranking 11th in the league in averaging 373.5 yards per game.\u00a0 Don\u2019t throw away your betting ticket if America\u2019s Team is trailing heading into the final 15 minutes, as it registered an NFL-best 4-1 record in coming from behind at the start of the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

New York has won five of its last six games against Dallas, but trail in the all-time regular season series, 56-41-2.\u00a0 The Giants are the defending Super Bowl champions and shouldn\u2019t suffer much of a hangover from that accomplishment due to playing in such a high-profile affair.\u00a0 Quarterback Eli Manning was fantastic in this series a year ago, finishing with 746 yards and five touchdowns in the two victories.\u00a0 New York is 9-4-1 ATS in its last 14 September games.<\/p>\n

Manning described the new-look Cowboys defense as being \u201cvanilla\u201d in its approach, but the first-team unit collected three interceptions during exhibition play.\u00a0 He definitely has some weapons to work with on the perimeter, with Victor Cruz and Hakeem Nicks, while everyone in camp has been raving about Rueben Randle as well.\u00a0 It may be a pass-first option once again in the Big Apple, as running back Ahmad Bradshaw can\u2019t be counted on due to being injury prone.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cowboys due the underdog covering five of the last six meetings.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NFL handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants Wednesday, 9\/5\/12, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New York -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New York -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 46.5 Current Total:\u00a0 45 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Dallas will have revenge on its mind when taking the field inside MetLife Stadium in the 2012 NFL season opener, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[124,598,2779,5519,401,31,538],"class_list":["post-24748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-eli-manning","tag-jason-witten","tag-metlife-stadium","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-tony-romo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24748","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=24748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24749,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24748\/revisions\/24749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}