{"id":30361,"date":"2013-09-26T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T23:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30361"},"modified":"2013-09-26T18:30:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T23:30:19","slug":"dallas-cowboys-vs-san-diego-chargers-nfl-week-4-betting-odds-and-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/dallas-cowboys-vs-san-diego-chargers-nfl-week-4-betting-odds-and-picks-30361\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys vs. San Diego Chargers: NFL Week 4 Betting Odds and Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Cowboys vs. San Diego Chargers
\nSunday, 9\/29\/13, 4:25 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 44.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 46.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Chargers<\/a>
The San Diego Chargers are performing at a high level offensively early on in 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dallas has alternated wins and losses over its first three games, as it comes off a decisive 31-7 victory over the St. Louis Rams as 3.5-point home favorites last week, while going UNDER the betting total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has completed 72.2 percent of his passes and thrown just a single interception, as he\u2019s given praise to the protecting he\u2019s received by the offensive line early on this season.\u00a0 \u201cYou\u2019re not having to make as many decisions under duress,\u201d stated Romo this week.\u00a0 Dallas is 3-1 SU and 2-1-1 ATS as road favorites of three or fewer points, which is important to consider when making your NFL expert picks in Week 4.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys are the only team in the NFC East with a winning record, but their pass rush took a big hit this week, as defensive end Anthony Spender was put on the season-ending injured reserve list Wednesday.\u00a0 Dallas will rely even more on DeMarcus Ware getting after the opposing quarterback under first-year defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin\u2019s scheme.\u00a0 He leads the team with four sacks, while defensive tackle Jason Hatcher has tallied one in every game.<\/p>\n

San Diego returns home after splitting a pair of road games in the Eastern Time Zone, as it attempts to bounce back from a 20-17 loss to the Tennessee Titans as three-point underdogs in Week 3.\u00a0 \u201cWe have to build off the good things, but really clean up the mistakes as soon as possible,\u201d commented Chargers head coach Mike McCoy.\u00a0 The Chargers have done a much better job protecting quarterback Philip Rivers this season, as he\u2019s been sacked just five times\u2014allowing him to throw eight touchdowns and just a single interception.\u00a0 San Diego is 1-3 SUATS as home underdogs of three or less points the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NFL betting lines.<\/p>\n

The Chargers have a potent three-headed rushing attack comprised of Ryan Mathews, Danny Woodhead and Ronnie Brown, which must continue to allow this offense to be balanced throughout the season.\u00a0 San Diego will be meeting Dallas for the 10th time during regular season play, as it has dropped six of nine games in the series, but picking up a victory in two of the last three.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 7-1 in the Chargers last eight games after allowing 350 or more total yards.<\/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. San Diego Chargers Sunday, 9\/29\/13, 4:25 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 44.5 Current Total:\u00a0 46.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Dallas has alternated wins and losses over its first three games, as it comes off a decisive 31-7 victory over the St. Louis Rams […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[124,31,1035,2827,298,538],"class_list":["post-30361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-nfl","tag-philip-rivers","tag-ryan-mathews","tag-san-diego-chargers","tag-tony-romo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30361","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=30361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30363,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30361\/revisions\/30363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}