{"id":8223,"date":"2010-09-25T17:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T22:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=8223"},"modified":"2010-09-25T17:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T22:08:34","slug":"nfl-picks-texans-vs-cowboys-game-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-picks-texans-vs-cowboys-game-preview-8223\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Picks: Texans Vs Cowboys Game Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Texans Matt Schaub leads 2-0 Houston against 0-2 Dallas and are 2.5\/3 point home favorites depending where you shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Dallas Cowboys (0-2) and Houston Texans (2-0) have been preseason rivals over the years but will get a chance to play a game that actually means something when they meet on Sunday in a showdown as big as the state of Texas.\u00a0 Not many people thought the Cowboys would be winless after the first two games, but they can erase that memory with a win at Houston.\u00a0 The Cowboys are 2.5\/3 point underdogs on the current lines but with that hovering around a key number like 3 make sure you shop around and get the best price and you can do so on our NFL betting odds page.<\/p>\n

The Texans have won their first two games the way they used to lose them \u2013 and the way Dallas has dropped its first two so far.\u00a0 Houston is coming off a thrilling 30-27 overtime win at Washington last week behind the arm of quarterback Matt Schaub, who threw for an NFL-high 497 yards and three touchdowns.\u00a0 The Redskins could not stop the duo of wide receivers Andre Johnson and Kevin Walter as they combined for 302 receiving yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Running back Arian Foster was the big story in the season-opening 34-24 win over Indianapolis for the Texans with 231 yards but was held to 69 yards on 19 carries, although he added three catches for 69 yards.\u00a0 The Dallas defense has done a great job limiting the run despite losing twice, holding opponents to 63.5 yards per game.\u00a0 The Cowboys are also one of seven teams in the league who have not surrendered a rushing touchdown.<\/p>\n

The problems for Dallas have been on the offensive side of the ball, where quarterback Tony Romo has put up solid numbers but failed to deliver enough touchdowns to win.\u00a0 Romo has thrown for a touchdown in each of the first two games but tossed a pair of interceptions in last week\u2019s 27-20 home loss to Chicago.\u00a0 He finished with 374 yards passing against the Bears but has stated his team needs to run the ball better in order to have a better chance to win.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys totaled just 36 rushing yards on 20 carries against Chicago and will look to get running back Marion Barber and Felix Jones more involved in the offense against Houston.\u00a0 The return of offensive linemen Marc Colombo and Kyle Kosier from injuries did not help much against the Bears, but another week of practice should help get them back on track.<\/p>\n

The Texans will be without left tackle Duane Brown due to a four-game suspension for violating the NFL\u2019s substance abuse policy.\u00a0 Brown will join reigning Defensive Rookie of the Year Brian Cushing on the sidelines, and his absence could be critical against Dallas pass rusher DeMarcus Ware.<\/p>\n

Houston has covered the last three meetings with the Cowboys, but all of those happened during the preseason.\u00a0 The last regular-season meeting came in 2006 and resulted in a 34-6 win for Dallas.\u00a0 The OVER is 19-7 in the last 26 September games for the Texans, including both games this season.<\/p>\n

Maddux Sports has released a 20 unit game of the month on this contest.\u00a0 We feel we have the dead nut right side and would advise all reading that are betting on this game to signup for our NFL picks this week.\u00a0 You can do so on the winning NFL picks page of the website.\u00a0 Dont be sitting there are half time saying man I wish I would have bought Maddux’s plays because I got this game wrong.\u00a0 We will nail this game and you should be on board for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Cowboys (0-2) and Houston Texans (2-0) have been preseason rivals over the years but will get a chance to play a game that actually means something when they meet on Sunday in a showdown as big as the state of Texas.\u00a0 Not many people thought the Cowboys would be winless after the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":5454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[124,2539,2508,1120,2382,1930,1922,3159],"class_list":["post-8223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-football-betting","tag-free-nfl-pick","tag-houston-texans","tag-nfl-betting-odds","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-texans-cowboys-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223","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=8223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8229,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223\/revisions\/8229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}