Will the Cowboys defense finally force some punts Monday Night?

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Well, the Dallas Cowboys are back on Monday Night Football this week, and this time it is against a team that has a very good defense, but an offense that has not been good.

Yet, when teams play the Dallas Cowboys, their offense looks like the 2000 greatest show on turf Rams, and even with Dallas making a few trades and getting guys back this week, are we going to see this defense be able to get some stops and force the Los Vegas Raiders to punt the football?

It is a legitimate question about how bad this defense is. You all probably laughed at the same thing when facing the Arizona Cardinals, who looked the same way against Dallas and then the next week couldn’t pick up a first down.

GAME INFO:

Date: Monday, November, 17th | Time: 7:25 CT

Location: Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV

TV: ESPN | Stream: FuboTV.

Radio: 105.3 The Fan (KRLD-FM), 107.5 La Grande in Spanish (KMVK-FM).

ODDS:

Moneyline (ML): Cowboys -85 (bet $185 to win $100) | Raiders + 154 (bet $100 to win $154).

Against the spread (ATS): Cowboys – 3.5 (-110) | Raiders +3.5 (-110).

Over/Under (O/U): 50.5 (O: -110 | U: -110).

Lose-Lose Situation

When you watch games every weekend, teams force punts, something the Dallas Cowboys defense just does not seem to do hardly ever, and when I say that, I am not saying teams don’t, but when the other offense has the ball against the Cowboys, I expect them to score this season.

You cannot tell me that you don’t expect the same, that is just how it has been this year.

The Raiders’ offense is not good, and Geno Smith has been giving the ball away a lot this season, and if the Dallas defense looks good with the new players they have coming back, I don’t want you to get sucked in.

They did activate LB DeMarvion Overshown and rookie CB Shavon Revel. Both are expected to be available for this week’s game.

If they look good this week, we are going to have fans thinking the defense turned a corner just like they did when they beat up on a Washington team that was filled with injuries, then look at what happened the next week.

I want nothing more than Dallas to dominate this game after everything that they are going through, but it would not surprise me if they let us down again on the defensive side of the ball.

We will see what happens, I do like Dallas to win this game though on the road 27, 20.

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Shane Taylor

Shane Taylor is a sports journalist with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and seven years of professional media experience. He has written 766 articles for InsideTheStar.com, reaching over 928,000 readers. Prior to Inside The Star, Shane worked as a Sports Reporter for Journal Star and a Regional News Reporter for Shaw Media. He currently works in the TRIO Upward Bound department at a junior college.

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2 Comments

Cowboys fan 6 months ago

You do know that the players isn't the problem on defense, it's the scheme Eberflus is running right!? Why is it so hard for people to see it!? And that's why the defense looked so good against Washington and then looked bad the next game.... It wasn't because the defense just played good against Washington and then played bad the next game, it's because Eberflus changed his scheme to more man coverage and ran more blitzes when we played Washington, but the next week he fell back into playing nothing but zone coverage and his normal 4 man fronts with no blitzing!! That's the only reason they looked good in one game and then bad the next!! It was the same when they played the jets.... They ran more man coverage and blitzes in that game too!! It's really not that hard to figure out!! We have a good group of defensive players, the only problem is that Eberflus keeps running a scheme that don't fit our players!! But when he changes that scheme to fit our players, we play good defense!! Like I said, it's not hard to figure out!! All you have to do is pay attention to the way they play!! And if I'm not mistaken, commentators even mention in the jets game or the Washington game that Eberflus always runs zone coverage, but in one of them games he changed it up and ran man coverage on about 65% of the plays!! But that's why they play good in one game and bad the next!!
1. Shane Taylor Post Author 6 months ago
  
  Remember when you said the Cowboys would win 12 games? So do I.