{"id":30289,"date":"2013-09-22T08:13:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T13:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30289"},"modified":"2013-09-22T08:13:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T13:13:53","slug":"nfl-week-3-picks-st-louis-rams-vs-dallas-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-3-picks-st-louis-rams-vs-dallas-cowboys-30289\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 3 Picks: St. Louis Rams vs. Dallas Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Rams vs. Dallas Cowboys
\nSunday, 9\/22\/13, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 46.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Dallas Cowboys should feature RB DeMarco Murray against the St. Louis Rams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

St. Louis will seek its first road victory of the season, as it looks to bounce back from a 31-24 defeat to the Atlanta Falcons as four-point underdogs in Week 2, with the OVER cashing in a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Rams have compiled an even 11-11 record against the Cowboys in regular season play\u2014something that can\u2019t be ignored when making your NFL betting picks Sunday.\u00a0 Offensively, quarterback Sam Bradford is the player to watch in the fourth quarter, as nine of his 21 touchdown passes a season ago came in that situation.\u00a0 St. Louis is 0-4 SU and 1-3 ATS as a road underdog of 3.5 to 7 points.<\/p>\n

The Rams will go as far as Bradford will take them this year\u2014passing for 651 yards and five touchdowns.\u00a0 St. Louis is the only team in the NFL that has yet to allow a sack this season, which is a drastic improvement from allowing 35 sacks in 2012 and 55 in 2011.\u00a0 Rookie wide receiver Tavon Austin has demonstrated early on why the franchise chose him in the first round of the 2013 NFL draft, as he\u2019s grabbed 12 passes through two games.<\/p>\n

Dallas has split its first two games, but has managed to cover the spread in both of those efforts, including a 17-16 defeat to the Kansas City Chiefs as three-point underdogs last week.\u00a0 The Cowboys have one of the better passing games in all of football, with quarterback Tony Romo completing 30 of 42 passes for 298 yards against the Chiefs, while connecting with wide receiver Dez Bryant nine times for 141 yards.\u00a0 Dallas is 10-7 SU and 4-13 ATS at home over the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro football odds page.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys should feature running back DeMarco Murray, as he set the franchise\u2019s single-game rushing record of 253 yards on 25 carries against the Rams in 2011.\u00a0 During the past two 8-8 seasons, Dallas has never lost more than two games in a row, but it lost two in a row on six different occasions.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 4-1 in the last five meetings in this NFC series.<\/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":"

St. Louis Rams vs. Dallas Cowboys Sunday, 9\/22\/13, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 46.5 Current Total:\u00a0 47 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker St. Louis will seek its first road victory of the season, as it looks to bounce back from a 31-24 defeat to the Atlanta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[124,1140,3613,31,623,863,538],"class_list":["post-30289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dez-bryant","tag-nfc","tag-nfl","tag-sam-bradford","tag-st-louis-rams","tag-tony-romo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30289","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=30289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30290,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30289\/revisions\/30290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}