Last season, the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants played two games in the 50s, and neither set of defensive backs had any chance of stopping the other team's wide receivers. That generally bodes well for touchdowns in this one, and that means Dez Bryant and Odell Beckham Jr. are going to be in high demand for prop purposes.
ODB IS ONE BIG DEAL
Beckham actually averaged more yards per game last season than any other receiver in the NFL, and he really came on strong at the end of the year. His last four games, he had 130, 143, 148 and 185 yards, and he scored at least one touchdown in all of those duels.
Of course, one of the coming out party games for Beckham last year as a rookie came against these Cowboys. He had 10 catches for 146 yards and two scores in Week 12 at home, but many will forget that, in his third game in the NFL, he had his first multi-touchdown game against the Cowboys.
The Dallas defense isn't nearly as good this season as it was last year when it overachieved mightily. Rolando McClain is beginning his four-game suspension, and the man who was picked up to help get a pass rush going, Greg Hardy is also beginning his four-game ban. The key here though, might be Brandon Carr's hand injury. Carr was abused last season by ODB, but he is going to be out of the lineup in this one in all likelihood thanks to a hand injury.
The only problem Beckham is going to have in this game is the fact that he is going to be blanketed the entire time. The Giants don't have a great receiving corps, and with Victor Cruz not likely ready to return in time for this one, the Cowboys really only have to focus in on the second-year man from LSU.
It's going to be tough to lay the lumber to get Beckham to score a touchdown on your side, but we have to think there is at least a 70 percent chance he finds his way into the end zone on Sunday Night Football.
BRYANT NO BUST FOR THE COWBOYS
Speaking of guys who have destroyed opposing defensive backs… Bryant had 16 touchdowns last season for the Cowboys, two of which came against these Giants.
There are a few notes that should be made about Bryant, though. First off, he didn't score a touchdown in either of Dallas' playoff games last season, and he didn't have more than six catches in any game played after Week 13.
Also keep in mind that the Giants did keep Bryant out of the end zone for three halves of football before the Oklahoma State man lost his mind and had two touchdowns in a dominant second half in the Meadowlands in Week 12 in the third and fourth quarters to lead the Cowboys back from a two-score deficit.
DeMarco Murray's 13 rushing touchdowns from last year have to end up going somewhere, and we have to imagine that it is going to end up coming down to Tony Romo and this passing attack.
The Giants are still going to rank in the bottom third in the league in terms of their secondary, and without Jason Pierre-Paul rushing off of the edge, the excellent Cowboys' offensive line should give Romo all day to try to figure out where to throw the ball. Even with Bryant being double-covered all the time though, he's going to get the ball in his hands. When he does, he's always a threat to score. We'd go all the way up to -200 on Bryant to get in the end zone on Sunday.
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