Washington Football vs Dallas Cowboys Picks and Odds Dec 12

Washington Football vs Dallas Cowboys Betting Preview

WagerTalk NFL handicapper Andy Lang offers his Washington Football vs Dallas Cowboys NFL Week 14 betting preview. At the time of posting, the Cowboys are holding steady as a 4.5-point road favorite over their NFC East rivals from Washington, with the total sitting at 48 points.

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Washington Football vs Dallas Cowboys Predictions

Dallas Cowboys -4.5 at Washington Football Team
Total: 48 Points
Washington has won and covered the spread in each of their last four games.
The under is 6-1 in Washington’s last seven games, as the Football Team as held its last five opponents to less than 310 yards.

The 8-4 Dallas Cowboys go to Washington to take on the Football Team, and it’s a rare occasion that the 6-6 team appears to have more momentum coming into this game. After losing four straight they’ve turned around and won four straight, and they play Dallas and Philly both in the next four weeks followed by the Giants in the final week so they can gain a lot of ground if they extend the winning streak. The general public should have a plethora of Cowboys information and opinions if they consume content from certain sports channels and we hope not to Skip over anything and get it right on the First Take.

The Cowboys are always going to have a bit of an inflated line and they are -4.5 on the road right now with a total of 48. This is a game I’m choosing not to pay too much attention to the season long ATS and Totals trends as both teams are playing different styles with different results now compared to early in the season. The Cowboys were rolling early in the year, but now Zeke is clearly injured and the Cowboys are bound and determined to get their money’s worth out of him as they won’t give him much rest, and the theory behind it is that he’s great at pass production and Pollard is not so they aren’t comfortable with handing the keys over to Pollard.

Dak hasn’t lived up to his statistical expectations this season, but Amari Cooper should return so he will feel more comfortable for sure as his stats skyrocket with Amari in the lineup. I just see Dallas fading at the wrong time right now. Since Dak returned, the Cowboys are 2-3 and their two wins are against the Falcons, and a Saints team with an injured Taysom Hill at quarterback with losses to Denver, Kansas City and Las Vegas mixed in.

Washington pulled the upset against Tampa on the 14th, and has rode that win into a four game winning streak beating Carolina, Seattle and Las Vegas since then. They’ve only scored 17 points the last two games, but they’ve done a nice job in Time Of Possession in those games with Gibson running the ball pretty well, especially considering he’s on a leg that was diagnosed with a stress fracture this season. Heinicke isn’t the ideal NFL quarterback, but he’s doing something right winning four straight. He doesn’t throw for a ton of yards, he has interceptions in two straight games, and only has 11 TD passes in his last eight games. So what’s the play here?

Love the under 48 here as I see two offenses that don’t impress me right now against two defenses who have been pretty solid. Washington has gone under this total in seven straight games, and Dallas has gone under in five out six. Zeke has no explosion, and the Dallas passing game is clunky right now…Washington has a limited amount of play makers on offense and Parsons and Diggs should be big problems for a limited Taylor Heinicke…all signs point me to the under.

OFFICIAL PLAY: UNDER 48

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Washington Football vs Dallas Cowboys from The GoldSheet

We’ve seen this act before from Washington, like last year when the Team charged down the stretch to steal an NFC East that no one else wanted to win. The Dak Prescott-is-healthy- Cowboys have changed the latter dynamic, but with a pair of games vs. Jerry Jones’ boys in the next two weeks, and nothing but division games the rest of the way, darned if Washington isn’t in position to steal the East again.

Four straight wins and covers and holding five straight teams to 310 yards or fewer (a neat trick by Ron Rivera, considering all of the injuries on his stop unit), plus winning a game effectively minus a PK last Monday vs. Seattle, have already put scrappy WFT into the NFC Wild Card mix. And we’d be reluctant to continue underestimating Taylor Heinicke, who has shown a knack of overcoming mistakes and has kept enough plays alive with the improvisational skills to sustain key drives in the win streak. Note that Dallas hasn’t been scoring many style points since the first month of the season, with the old bread-and-butter infantry not nearly as potent with Tony Pollard having apparently supplanted Zeke as the feature back, and the offense more than ever riding Dak’s coattails. Though HC Mike McCarthy and some of his staff should return here from a Covid absence, nothing has come too easily for the Cowboys no matter who has been on the sidelines as the season has progressed.

So, after beating the champion Bucs and twice winning on the road the past four weeks, what’s to say Washington can’t push this uptick a bit further? “Totals” alert–WFT now “under” 6-1 last seven after back-to-back 17-15 wins (yes, identical 17-15!) over the Seahawks and Raiders.

Play Washington and the Under.

Washington Football vs Dallas Cowboys Video Preview

Washington’s four-game win streak has closed the gap in the NFC East. Can they pull another game closer to first place Dallas on Sunday? WagerTalk NFL handicappers Drew Martin, Andy Lang and Andrew McInnis offer their Washington Football vs Dallas Cowboys betting preview.

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