{"id":9871,"date":"2010-10-25T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=9871"},"modified":"2010-10-25T13:06:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T18:06:47","slug":"monday-night-football-preview-new-york-giants-at-dallas-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/monday-night-football-preview-new-york-giants-at-dallas-cowboys-9871\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Night Football Preview: New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys
\nMonday, 10\/25\/2010, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 44.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 44
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Dallas -190 \/ New York +160<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Dallas Cowboys are a 3-point home favorite against their NFC East rivals on Monday Night Football<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dallas has a 1-4 overall mark this season and has dropped both games at home, a stadium that many believed the team would be playing the Super Bowl in come February.\u00a0 \u201cI believe in these guys, I believe in the coaching staff, I believe in Wade Phillips,\u201d said Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.\u00a0 \u201cI believe we can turn things around.\u201d\u00a0 The Cowboys tote the third-best offense and fourth-best defense in the NFL this season, but they haven\u2019t been able to overcome 62 penalties.\u00a0 The squad is on pace for 157 penalties for 1,293 penalty yards.\u00a0 \u201cWe realize the penalties are hurting us,\u201d said Phillips.\u00a0 \u201cWe are trying to do everything we can.\u201d\u00a0 Dallas leads the series against the Giants, 55-38-2, but New York has won two straight meetings and four of the last five.\u00a0 The team has an 0-3 ATS mark as a favorite this season and is 2-7 ATS in its last nine October games.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys out-gained Minnesota by 126 yards in Sunday\u2019s 24-21 defeat and quarterback Tony Romo knows that the team must gain a victory in primetime.\u00a0 \u201cWe have to play well this weekend to win, to beat these guys,\u201d Romo said.\u00a0 \u201cI think that it would be an important stepping stone going in the right direction for the rest of the season.\u201d\u00a0 Dallas\u2019 offensive line better step up to the challenge of facing the Giants defensive line, especially Justin Tuck, considering New York has won 14 consecutive games when he records a sack.\u00a0 Since the NFL went to a six-team postseason in 1990, only five of 97 teams that started 1-4 made the playoffs.<\/p>\n

New York may be coming in with a superior 4-2 overall record, but no one in the locker room is taking Monday night\u2019s opponent for granted.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re definitely no 1-4 team,\u201d said Giants running back Brandon Jacobs.\u00a0 \u201cThis is a good football team that we\u2019re lining up against that has been one play away from being 5-0, so we know that\u2019s in front of us.\u201d\u00a0 The Giants are poised to head into the bye week with a 5-2 mark and drop the Cowboys to an 0-2 record in the division.\u00a0 New York plays with extreme confidence this time of the year and no statistic displays that more than quarterback Eli Manning\u2019s stellar 19-4 mark in October starts in his career, which is the best among Super Bowl era signal-callers.\u00a0 The team is 7-4 ATS in October over the last three years.<\/p>\n

The Giants come in on a three-game winning streak and has been relying heavily on a defense that is limiting foes to an NFC-best 264.8 yards per game.\u00a0 New York\u2019s defensive line has been key to the unit\u2019s success, with Osi Umenyiora leading the charge.\u00a0 The two-time Pro Bowler has seven sacks and six forced fumbles over his last three games.\u00a0 \u201cOsi has played well and he\u2019s made up his mind to play well,\u201d said head coach Tom Coughlin.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is led by running back Ahmad Bradshaw, who ranks third in the league with 582 yards.\u00a0 He has averaged just 4.3 carries in seven career games against the Cowboys, but in six games this season he has averaged 18.3 rushes per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be very interested in grabbing the points in this high-profile matchup due to the Giants 12-3-1 ATS mark in their last 16 games as a road underdog of 0.5-to-3 points.\u00a0 Dallas is 3-1 ATS as a home favorite of three points or less.<\/p>\n

Maddux Sports is coming off another winning Sunday including winning our 20 unit NFL Sunday Night Game of the Year on Green Bay -2.5 and we are now on a 67% NFL Picks run.\u00a0 For Monday we have 1 solid winner in the Giants\/Dallas game.\u00a0 Visit the NFL sports picks page and finish off week 7 on a winning note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys Monday, 10\/25\/2010, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 44.5 Current Total:\u00a0 44 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Dallas -190 \/ New York +160 Dallas has a 1-4 overall mark this season and has dropped both games at home, a stadium that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[3400,124,598,3612,401,3613,31,3614,553,538],"class_list":["post-9871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-ahmad-bradshaw","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-eli-manning","tag-jerry-jones","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfc","tag-nfl","tag-osi-umeyiora","tag-tom-coughlin","tag-tony-romo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871","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=9871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9891,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions\/9891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}