BY ADAM GREENE<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For whatever reason, the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys have held a lockdown on Thanksgiving Day, and thus we are cursed doubly in the afternoon game as the Washington Football Team travels to Jerry World to take on the Cowboys in another NFC East nationally featured game none of us deserve to suffer through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WASHINGTON<\/strong> FOOTBALL TEAM AT DALLAS COWBOYS (-2.5, O\/U: 46.5)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Location:<\/strong> AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kickoff:<\/strong> Nov. 26, 4:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n Broadcast:<\/strong> FOX<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This rivalry stretches all the way back to 1960, the Cowboys\u2019 first year in the NFL. Dallas holds a commanding 73-46-2 lead in the head-to-head match up and had won three straight before the WFT took a 25-3 victory a month ago. Kyle Allen, who is currently on IR with an \u201cL\u201d shaped ankle, led Washington with 194 yards passing and two touchdowns. Andy Dalton, who just returned to action last week after the beating he took in this very game, threw for just 75 yards and a pick before going into the concussion protocol. Back up Ben DiNucci finished out the contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFT running back Antonio Gibson rushed 20 times for 128 yards and a TD in the victory. Ezekiel Elliott had 12 carries for 45 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not that it will matter this season, but Washington and Dallas have met just twice in the playoffs and both were in the NFC Championship game. WFT was victorious in both, winning 26-3 in 1972 to earn the right to lose 14-7 to the undefeated Miami Dolphins. Washington\u2019s 31-17 victory over the Cowboys in the Jan. 1983 NFC title game led to a 38-9 blowout loss to the Los Angeles Raiders in Super Bowl XVIII.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WASHINGTON<\/strong> FOOTBALL TEAM (3-7)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Washington picked up their third victory of the season last week in a 20-9 trouncing of the Cincinnati Bengals that ended rookie QB Joe Burrow\u2019s season. Quarterback Alex Smith pocketed his first win since 2018 with 166 yards passing, one touchdown and one interception. Gibson rushed 16 times for 94 yards and a touchdown. WFT\u2019s defense recorded four sacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DALLAS<\/strong> COWBOYS (3-7)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dallas broke a four game losing streak thanks to the return of the aforementioned Red Rifle. Dalton threw for 203 yards, three touchdowns and an interception in the 31-28 shootout win over the Minnesota Vikings. Elliott carried the ball 21 times for 103 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE PICK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The coaching match up in this one is a joke, with Ron Rivera actually deserving his job and Mike McCarthy more suited to working a mop across a sticky Waffle House floor. So it\u2019s weird that, even without Dak Prescott, Dallas\u2019 roster is far superior. Washington just has too many holes on both sides of the ball and I think that will make the difference if McCarthy doesn\u2019t come up with some foolproof plan to screw it up. Cowboys 27, WFT 20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow our BetOnline Twitter accoun<\/a>t for the latest sports news and betting odds, and stay tuned on the Instagram feed<\/a> for more good information too.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY ADAM GREENE For whatever reason, the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys have held a lockdown on Thanksgiving Day, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14533,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14531\/revisions\/14533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}