{"id":7896,"date":"2010-09-18T14:08:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T19:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2010-09-18T14:08:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T19:08:56","slug":"chicago-bears-vs-dallas-cowboys-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/chicago-bears-vs-dallas-cowboys-betting-preview-7896\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears Vs Dallas Cowboys Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Dallas Cowboys have seen some money come in against them driving down the odds from -8.5 to the current number of -7<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Chicago Bears (1-0) and Dallas Cowboys (0-1) had luck go for and against them last week in their respective season openers, making this more of a true test on Sunday to find out how good they really are.\u00a0 The Bears put up some impressive offensive numbers yardage-wise in a 19-14 win over Detroit last Sunday but needed a controversial call on a potential game-winning touchdown catch by Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson to pull out the victory.<\/p>\n

Later that day, the Cowboys\u00a0-7 on the current NFL betting odds\u00a0had an apparent game-winning score wiped off the scoreboard when offensive tackle Alex Barron was called for holding in a 13-7 loss at Washington.\u00a0 Dallas quarterback Tony Romo had led what looked liked the game-winning drive when he connected with wide receiver Roy Williams on a 13-yard touchdown, only to have it nullified.<\/p>\n

Romo finished with 282 yards passing but could not overcome some gaffes, including one he committed at the end of the first half when he tried to make something happen by pitching the football to running back Tashard Choice.\u00a0 The pitch was handled cleanly but Choice fumbled, and the Redskins recovered it and scored their only touchdown of the game.\u00a0 Romo clearly should have let time expire by kneeling rather than heading into halftime with a 10-0 deficit.<\/p>\n

Chicago looked much better offensively in the new Mike Martz system \u2013 until they moved into Detroit\u2019s territory.\u00a0 The Bears turned the ball over four times, including three on the Lions\u2019 side of the field that prevented them from scoring more than two touchdowns.\u00a0 Quarterback Jay Cutler threw for 372 yards \u2013 his highest number in a Chicago uniform \u2013 but a good chunk of that came on two touchdown passes to running back Matt Forte for 117 yards.<\/p>\n

Forte finished with seven catches for 151 yards and rushed 17 times for 50 yards, but he was stuffed four straight times on the goal line.\u00a0 Fortunately for him, the Bears defense played outstanding, allowing just 168 yards, forcing three turnovers and recording two sacks, including one by new defensive end Julius Peppers that knocked Lions QB Matthew Stafford out of the game with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys have won five of the last seven meetings with Chicago both straight-up and against the spread, although they have played each other only twice this decade.\u00a0 The most recent meeting saw Dallas earn a 34-10 road win the year after the Bears last went to the Super Bowl with the total going OVER 41.\u00a0 The UNDER had cashed in seven of the previous eight meetings before that game.\u00a0 For other NFL picks check out the NFL predictions page at Maddux Sports, offering winning selections for a reasonable cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Bears (1-0) and Dallas Cowboys (0-1) had luck go for and against them last week in their respective season openers, making this more of a true test on Sunday to find out how good they really are.\u00a0 The Bears put up some impressive offensive numbers yardage-wise in a 19-14 win over Detroit last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":4152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[359,3077,124,2539,1930,1922,2480],"class_list":["post-7896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-chicago-bears","tag-cowboys-bears-preview","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-football-betting","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-nfl-predictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896","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\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7914,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions\/7914"}],"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=7896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}