{"id":8786,"date":"2010-10-09T21:46:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T02:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=8786"},"modified":"2010-10-09T21:46:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T02:46:32","slug":"dallas-cowboys-vs-tennessee-titans-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/dallas-cowboys-vs-tennessee-titans-preview-8786\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys Vs Tennessee Titans Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennessee Titans at Dallas Cowboys, Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX
\nSunday, October 10, 2010, 4:15 pm EST, TV: CBS
\nOpening Line: Cowboys -7
\nCurrent Line: Cowboys -7
\nOpening Total: 41.5
\nCurrent Total: 42.5
\nMoney Line: Cowboys -310 \/ Titans +260<\/strong>
\nOdds taken from Bookmaker Sportsbook<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Titans
The Dallas Cowboys are 7 point home favorites against the visiting Titans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Dallas Cowboys (1-2) hope to pick up where they left off before their bye week when they host the Tennessee Titans (2-2) on Sunday.\u00a0 The Cowboys (-7 on the current NFL odds) have won following their bye week each of the last five years and picked up their first win of the season at Houston two weeks ago with a 27-13 victory over the Texans.<\/p>\n

Dallas will face a tough challenge though from a Tennessee team that has won 10 straight games against NFC opponents, the latest coming against another NFC East foe in the Giants two weeks ago.\u00a0 The Titans won that game 29-10 on the road and will need to get running back Chris Johnson going again if they are going to extend that winning streak.<\/p>\n

Johnson has been outstanding in Tennessee\u2019s two wins so far with 267 rushing yards, but he has been below average in the two losses with 87 total.\u00a0 Denver limited him to 53 yards on 19 carries in a 26-20 road win last week, and he might need quarterback Vince Young to step up back in his home state of Texas in order to bust loose against the Cowboys.<\/p>\n

Young has beaten Houston twice on the road and will be looking to improve to 3-0 in the state where he led the Texas Longhorns to the national championship in 2005.\u00a0 He may have to use his legs to help the Titans because wide receiver Justin Gage could miss the game with a hamstring injury.\u00a0 Young has struggled in the passing game so far this season, failing to throw for more than 173 yards and one touchdown since the season-opening win over Oakland.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys have not had much of a running game this year and might have a difficult time getting that part of their offense going against a Tennessee defense that has held opponents to an average of 92 rushing yards per game.\u00a0 The Titans have allowed only one rushing touchdown this season and have given up less touchdown passes (three) than they have interceptions (four).<\/p>\n

Dallas quarterback Tony Romo seems to be at his worst when he has to throw too much, proven by the team\u2019s 0-2 start when he threw an NFL-high 98 pass attempts.\u00a0 Romo had 284 passing yards and two touchdowns against the Texans and will need to avoid the pressure from Tennessee.\u00a0 The Titans are tied with Green Bay for the most sacks in the league with 16.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys have won the last two regular-season meetings with Tennessee both straight-up and against the spread since Tennessee shut them out 31-0 on Christmas Day 10 years ago.\u00a0 The total went OVER in both of those games and is 12-4 in the last 16 games for Dallas during the month of October.<\/p>\n

If you are betting this game be sure to check out the winning NFL picks packages we offer as this is one of our 5 selections we released to members this week and it should be an easy winner for all on board with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tennessee Titans at Dallas Cowboys, Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX Sunday, October 10, 2010, 4:15 pm EST, TV: CBS Opening Line: Cowboys -7 Current Line: Cowboys -7 Opening Total: 41.5 Current Total: 42.5 Money Line: Cowboys -310 \/ Titans +260 Odds taken from Bookmaker Sportsbook The Dallas Cowboys (1-2) hope to pick up where they left […]<\/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":[3297,124,2539,2508,1930,1922,301],"class_list":["post-8786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-cowboys-titans-preview","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-football-betting","tag-free-nfl-pick","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-tennessee-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786","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=8786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8922,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions\/8922"}],"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=8786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}