The online betting crowd can see the stars starting to align for the Dallas Cowboys, but everyone is trying to avoid getting over-confident. In week 10, the Cowboys blasted the Buffalo Bills 44-7 for Dallas’ second win in a row. The team is now 5-4 and in the thick of the hunt for the NFC East title. The next three Dallas opponents have a combined record of 8-19 with the next up being the Washington Redskins. After the Redskins, the Cowboys have games against the Miami Dolphins and Arizona Cardinals. Miami and Arizona have shown that they are weak teams that are capable of winning on any given week. But those are two more games the Cowboys could win.
Not only could the Cowboys’ price per head record be 8-4 after the next three games, Dallas has also discovered a running game with DeMarco Murray that it never knew it had. With Murray teamed up with running back Felix Jones in the Dallas backfield, the two will make a formidable combination.
The one thing that the Cowboys are missing is pay per head veteran wide receiver Miles Austin who will be out another one to three weeks with a hamstring injury. There were rumors that the Cowboys may be thinking of signing a veteran wide receiver to pick up the slack for a set of receivers that seems to get hurt a lot. But Dallas found out in the Buffalo game that it is deep at wide receiver and does not need to make any moves. Receivers such as Laurent Robinson and Jesse Holley were able to step up, and don’t forget about veteran tight end Jason Witten’s contributions as well.
The bet online stars have aligned for a former Cowboy as Tashard Choice will be able to play against the Cowboys in week 11. Choice was released on October 31 and signed by the Redskins. Choice had an injured shoulder when he was let go by Dallas, so he could not play his first few games as a Redskin. But he is ready to go and says he is anxious to play against his former teammates.
When Choice was released by Dallas, it was done because the Cowboys felt that DeMarco Murray was enough of a stud that he could carry the team until Felix Jones returns. With Jones ready to come back, the Cowboys now have the running game that it thought it had when Jones and Marion Barber were in the Dallas backfield. Barber turned out to be injury-prone and wildly inconsistent with his production and did not give the balance to the running game that Dallas was hoping for.
Murray gives NFL fans in Dallas something to cheer about, and he also helps to take a lot of pressure off of quarterback Tony Romo. Many observers think that the problems the Cowboys were having were due to the fact that Dallas had to rely on Romo with no running game. The emergence of a running game, and the Cowboys recent turn around towards a winning record, are not a coincidence in the eyes of many fans and sports observers.
