{"id":31706,"date":"2013-12-09T13:41:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31706"},"modified":"2013-12-09T13:41:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:41:24","slug":"nfl-week-14-picks-dallas-cowboys-vs-chicago-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-14-picks-dallas-cowboys-vs-chicago-bears-31706\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 14 Picks: Dallas Cowboys vs. Chicago Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Cowboys vs. Chicago Bears
\nMonday, 12\/9\/13, 8:40 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 49
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Titans<\/a>
The Dallas Cowboys are virtually in a must-win situation Monday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dallas can ill-afford to drop any more games at this stage of the regular season, as it needs to chase down the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC East division.\u00a0 The Cowboys have won five of their last seven games, but have compiled a 13-17 record in December since Tony Romo took over the starting quarterback role in 2006, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NFL betting picks.\u00a0 He\u2019ll face an aggressive pass defense that has tallied 15 interceptions.\u00a0 Dallas is 2-4 SU and 5-1 ATS as an underdog this season, with the OVER going 4-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys have given up a ton of yardage this season\u2014entering this Monday Night Football matchup ranked 31st in the NFL in surrendering 294.9 passing yards per game.\u00a0 Former Chicago defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli might be able to help produce a scheme in this affair, as he arrived in Dallas after Lovie Smith was removed from his head coach position in the Windy City.\u00a0 These two NFC teams have split their eight all-time meetings at Soldier Field.<\/p>\n

Chicago will look to snap a two-game losing streak and grab a share of first place in the NFC North, which is important to consider when looking over the pro football odds page.\u00a0 The Bears will send out quarterback Josh McCown for his fourth straight start, as No. 1 signal-caller Jay Cutler continues to be hampered by a leg injury.\u00a0 He has completed 65.2 percent of his passes for 1,461 yards with nine touchdowns and one interception over the course of six contests.\u00a0 Chicago is 2-8 SU and 1-8-1 ATS in December the last two-plus seasons, with no clear edge in terms of the betting total (5-5 Over\/Under).<\/p>\n

The Bears won the last meeting 34-18 at Cowboys Stadium a season ago, with the defense intercepting five Romo passes\u2014returning two for touchdowns.\u00a0 Chicago must sure up its rush defense if it plans on pulling off another victory over Dallas, as it has allowed 205.9 yards per game on the ground over its last six affairs.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cowboys due to their 4-0 ATS mark as a road underdog of three or fewer points this season.<\/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. Chicago Bears Monday, 12\/9\/13, 8:40 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 49 Current Total:\u00a0 47.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Dallas can ill-afford to drop any more games at this stage of the regular season, as it needs to chase down the Philadelphia Eagles in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[359,124,324,2586,2589,31,5431,538],"class_list":["post-31706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-chicago-bears","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-josh-mccown","tag-nfc-east","tag-nfc-north","tag-nfl","tag-soldier-field","tag-tony-romo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31706","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=31706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31708,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31706\/revisions\/31708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}