{"id":30145,"date":"2013-09-14T18:10:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T23:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30145"},"modified":"2013-09-14T18:10:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T23:10:30","slug":"nfl-week-2-picks-dallas-cowboys-vs-kansas-city-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-2-picks-dallas-cowboys-vs-kansas-city-chiefs-30145\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 2 Picks: Dallas Cowboys vs. Kansas City Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Cowboys vs. Kansas City Chiefs
\nSunday, 9\/15\/13, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas City -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas City -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 46.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 46.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dallas Cowboys WR Miles Austin had a huge game against the Kansas City Chiefs in 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dallas forced six turnovers en route to a 36-31 victory over the New York Giants as three-point home favorites in Week 1, which was far different than the franchise forcing just 16 during the 2012 campaign.\u00a0 The Cowboys shouldn\u2019t celebrate too much about the effort, as they allowed 478 total yards, which is important to consider when making your pro football picks Sunday.\u00a0 Defensively, the team still has one of the better players in the league in DeMarcus Ware, who must be accounted for on every play.\u00a0 Dallas is 2-8 ATS after playing a division game the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 7-2-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys have many weapons to challenge the Chiefs defense, with wide receivers Miles Austin and Dez Bryant, as quarterback Tony Romo completed 20 passes in his only career start in this series in 2009.\u00a0 He connected 10 times with Austin, who finished with a career-high 250 receiving yards.\u00a0 Dallas may elect to pound running back DeMarco Murray as the game goes on, as he finished with 125 total yards versus the Giants.<\/p>\n

Kansas City opened the Andy Reid era with an impressive 28-2 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars as four-point road favorites, with new quarterback Alex Smith completing 21 of 34 passes for 173 yards and two touchdowns.\u00a0 The Chiefs may not be familiar with the Cowboys, but Reid certainly is, as he compiled a 17-12 record against him during his time with the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC East division.\u00a0 Kansas City is 1-5 ATS as favorites over the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 4-2 in those six opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs are expected to take care of the football this season with the addition of Smith, as he\u2019s thrown the fewest interceptions in the NFL among quarterbacks with at least 1,000 pass attempts since 2010.\u00a0 Kansas City leads the league in total defense after a week of play, but that performance came against potentially the worst offense in the AFC.\u00a0 On the defensive end, Justin Houston is someone to watch throughout, as he recorded three of the team\u2019s six sacks in the regular season opener.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Chiefs due to the Cowboys being 1-4 ATS off a win against a division rival since 2011.<\/p>\n

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Dallas Cowboys vs. Kansas City Chiefs Sunday, 9\/15\/13, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas City -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas City -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 46.5 Current Total:\u00a0 46.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Dallas forced six turnovers en route to a 36-31 victory over the New York Giants as three-point home favorites in Week 1, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[1173,3728,124,1140,303,1833,538],"class_list":["post-30145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-alex-smith","tag-andy-reid","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dez-bryant","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-miles-austin","tag-tony-romo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30145","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=30145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30146,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30145\/revisions\/30146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}