{"id":29660,"date":"2013-08-17T08:26:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=29660"},"modified":"2013-08-17T08:26:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T13:26:09","slug":"nfl-betting-preview-dallas-cowboys-vs-arizona-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-betting-preview-dallas-cowboys-vs-arizona-cardinals-29660\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Betting Preview: Dallas Cowboys vs. Arizona Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Cowboys vs. Arizona Cardinals
\nSaturday, 8\/17\/13, 4:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NFL Network
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arizona -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Arizona -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 41
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 41
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Arizona Cardinals defense matches up well with the Dallas Cowboys offense<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dallas has split the first two games on its exhibition schedule, as it comes off a 19-17 victory over the Oakland Raiders as 1.5-point road favorites last time out, while going OVER the betting total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Cowboys came into training camp with two main focuses of running the ball better on offense and create more turnovers on defense.\u00a0 Dallas intends to play its starters 15 to 20 snaps in this affair, which is important to consider when making your pro football picks.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys set a franchise record for rushing futility last season, as they ranked 31st in the NFL\u2014despite having running back DeMarco Murray gain 663 yards in 10 games of action.\u00a0 \u201cThe sky\u2019s the limit,\u201d commented Murray in camp this month.\u00a0 Dallas will need that offensive line to also protect quarterback Tony Romo in the passing game, as he completed 6 of 8 passes for 88 yards in his first round of action against the Silver & Black.<\/p>\n

Arizona came away with a 17-0 victory over the Green Bay Packers as two-point road underdogs in its NFL preseason opener, which is important to consider when looking over the pro football odds page.\u00a0 The Cardinals received solid contributions from all three of their signal-callers\u2014extending the field with five long passes in the opening half.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re not always going to do it,\u201d commented Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer.\u00a0 \u201cWhen those opportunities present themselves we\u2019re going to try and take advantage of them.\u201d\u00a0 Arizona\u2019s offensive line will need to play better in able to accomplish this task\u2014allowing 58 sacks a year ago.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals are definitely underdogs in the NFC West division with the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks receiving most of the headlines, but first-year head coach Bruce Arians isn\u2019t intimidated.\u00a0 His teams have posted a 100-44 record and won two Super Bowls over the past nine seasons\u2014never finishing below .500 in any of those years.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cardinals in this affair, as they match up well with the Cowboys on the defensive side of the football.<\/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 vs. Arizona Cardinals Saturday, 8\/17\/13, 4:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NFL Network Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arizona -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Arizona -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 41 Current Total:\u00a0 41 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Dallas has split the first two games on its exhibition schedule, as it comes off a 19-17 victory over the Oakland Raiders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[646,506,124,585,31,538],"class_list":["post-29660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-carson-palmer","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-demarco-murray","tag-nfl","tag-tony-romo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29660","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=29660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29661,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29660\/revisions\/29661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}