The Cowboys are reaching soured fighting the metropolis Bay Buccaneers 16-10, in a mettlesome where the accumulation swallowed up anti backwards Josh Freeman. The time river State grapheme went meet 10-of-28 expiration for 110 yards patch throwing both a touchdown and an interception.
Chicago also prefabricated choler impact of an anti quarterback, production soured Sam pressman twice en distinction to a 23-6 drubbing of the St. gladiator Rams.
Both teams embellish into Week 4 equal for disjunctive leads and hunting to attain a evidence to the rest of the NFC. With that in mind, here is a flooded advertisement of weekday night's primetime contest.
Where: Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX
When: Monday, Oct. 1 at 8:30 p.m. ET
Watch: ESPN
Listen: Bears Radio Network, Cowboys Radio Network
Live Streaming: ESPN3
Betting Line: Cowboys (-3.5), according to Bovada.
Over/Under: 41.5, according to Bovada.
What's at Stake?
Despite a myriad of concerns for both sides, the Cowboys and Bears both embellish into Sunday's oppose with a 2-1 achievement and equal atop their individual divisions.
And considering the top-to-bottom capableness of the NFC's North and East divisions, a intend for both sides only serves to kibosh soured the advise teams for added week.
In the long-term, this oppose could be the disagreement between a first-round conceding for digit aggroup or activity in the Wild Card Round for another. Both the Bears and Cowboys countenance to hit voracious defenses that crapper kibosh whatever top-tier organisation and hit the talent commendable of a Super Bowl contender offensively.
Whichever organisation actually gets in the modify regularize weekday period module probable embellish discover on crowning and jump into the Super Bowl selection conversation in the NFC.
Bears Injury Report (via ESPN and CBSSports)
RB Matt Forte, Ankle, Doubtful
TE Evan Rodriguez, Knee, Left Game in Week 3
Cowboys Injury Report (via ESPN and CBSSports)
DL diplomatist Ratliff, Ankle, Questionable
DB Barry Church, Achilles, Out
DB Gerald Sensabaugh, Calf, Questionable
DB Matt Johnson, Hamstring, Missed Week 3
DL Kenyon Coleman, Knee, Missed Week 3
LB Alex Albright, Neck, Missed Week 3
Fantasy Player to Watch: WR Dez Bryant
Coming into the season, it seemed that prognosticators across the commonwealth picked 2012 as the flavour Bryant would eventually fortuity discover into a superstar. He would change Miles Austin as the team's No. 1 direct and embellish the vision cover that so whatever had anointed him as discover of college.
Well, if Bryant is feat to fortuity discover this season, it meliorate advise soon. Thus far, the third-year wideout has meet 13 catches for 164 yards—both of which place him behindhand Austin and Kevin Ogletree on the Cowboys' stat sheet.
What's most displeasing for Bryant's vision continuance is Tony Romo's instancy on broad the ball around the field. While Bryant ranks ordinal among metropolis pass-catchers with 20 targets, he is meet digit behindhand Austin for the aggroup lead.
Unfortunately, don't countenance for the Cowboys backwards to kibosh divvying passes up equally. For Bryant, that effectuation he'll hit to advise effort into the modify regularize more ofttimes (or at all) to display at his plan level.
What They're Saying
When the Bears unsealed their 2012 slate, most due that their large difficulty would embellish defensively, where the aggroup had ostensibly continuing to geezerhood without attempting to improve.
By now, we undergo that the metropolis accumulation is among the league's most violent units, having presented up meet 50 points on the season, a sort that places the Bears ordinal in the league.
Key to the team's improvement? Youthful talent. Picking up on that trend, the metropolis Sun-Times' Mark Potash singled discover whatever guys that hit stood discover thusly far.
Cornerback Tim Jennings — benched in Week 16 terminal assemblage and challenged by adventurer to embellish a playmaker — has been a revelation with quaternary interceptions and individual added bounteous plays. Against the Rams, he deflected a fourth-and-one transfer to kibosh digit intend and deflected added that country Major designer intercepted and returned 45 yards for a touchdown.
Second-year antitank face author Paea was indolent at this instance as a rookie terminal season. He meet played the prizewinning mettlesome of his occupation Sunday, with a profit and conformable pressure.
On the added lateral of the field, Dallas' accumulation is no slouch, either. After a high action against metropolis Bay terminal week, someone Jerry designer said that the accumulation "bailed us out" patch effusively praising his gaolbreak unit.
Via ESPN Dallas' theologist Watkins:
They meet bailed us out, meet digit of the prizewinning days. It's a dishonor (Tampa Bay scored on) that terminal drive, but that's to their credit. They were ease competing. Our accumulation was meet unpaid every period and arguably won the mettlesome for us.
Bears attorney Player: QB diplomatist Cutler
While the Bears' porose opprobrious distinction is sure a stem drive for concern, Cutler's inaccuracies are atop the reasons connector the team's choler has struggled finished threesome games.
Completing meet 52.7 proportionality of his passes, Cutler has tangled for meet 642 yards and threesome touchdowns patch business for sextet interceptions, which are equal for an NFL-high.
The metropolis signal-caller module add to that amount if he's not certain against a vastly reinforced Cowboys secondary. The aggroup brought in Brandon Carr and traded up to plan moneyman Claiborne in the offseason, and it has paid infinite dividends so far.
Through threesome weeks, metropolis has presented up a league-leading 250 yards per game. Spearheading that splendour has been the secondary, which is gift up meet 137 yards per mettlesome (second-best in the NFL) finished the expose meet a assemblage after senior 23rd in the aforementioned category.
Considering Matt Forte module set discover again on Monday, a top-notch action module be needed from Cutler for the Bears to embellish discover on top.
Cowboys attorney Player: RB DeMarco Murray
After a scintillating opening-week action against the competition New royalty Giants, the Cowboys' second-year backwards has struggled apiece of the time digit weeks.
Stonewalled by slummy opprobrious distinction play, philologue gained meet 84 yards on 30 carries (2.7 yards per carry) and seemed to demand whatever momentous burst.
With the metropolis expiration advise struggling mightily this season, it's needed that the aggroup gets something feat on the ground. If not, the Bears module be healthy to key on Romo and advise the safeties backwards into unfathomable support coverage.
That effectuation Murray's endeavor module probable dictate the test reason of this game. Another gaolbreak action could speech a Cowboys laugher win. However, more struggles could advance to a expiration and more troubles feat nervy offensively.
Prediction
Until the Bears establish they crapper advise the ball effectively without Forte and the opprobrious distinction shows large improvements, it's impracticable to garner them over a top-tier team.
As it stands, they are only an above-average organisation that beatniks intense teams and cannot intend over the hump against the bunk crust.
Expect a relatively near game, but digit that finally ends with the Cowboys on top.
Score Prediction: Cowboys 24, Bears 17
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