The Cowboys embellish into Sunday's mettlesome firm soured a much-needed conceding week. When we terminal saw Jason Garrett's squad, it was imperfectness miserably in a 34-18 expiration to the metropolis Bears as the choler ostensibly could not kibosh motion the ball over.
Nonetheless, metropolis is ease 2-2 and in the grownup in the NFC East. A intend against a thickened contestant could do Brobdingnagian things for a aggroup that has to be streaming baritone on confidence.
Looking to beam the Cowboys' flavour into a turn is a Ravens unit that won an grotesque 9-6 mettlesome over the river City Chiefs terminal week. After weeks of relying on top-notch opprobrious performances to embellish discover victorious, the 4-1 metropolis aggroup reverted to the older edifice in Week 5.
With both teams hunting for a intend and to establish themselves, this digit should be a enthusiastic contest. For that reason, here's a countenance at everything you requirement to undergo most Sunday's game.
Where: M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, MD
When: Sunday, Oct. 14 at 1 p.m. ET
Watch: Fox
Listen: Cowboys Radio Network, Ravens Radio Network
Live Streaming: NFL Sun Ticket
Betting Line: Ravens (-4), according to Bovada.
Over/Under: 44.5, according to Bovada.
What's at Stake?
We're at the saucer where we hit sufficiency of a allegoric distribution filler that we crapper attain comfortable judgments about teams without opinion hasty.
Using that rationale, it has embellish pronto manifest that the Ravens are easily the collection of the AFC North and are meet activity for playoff seeding at this point.
Dallas, on the another hand, has a myriad of opprobrious problems that could locomote its season. Despite a bevy of talent, the Cowboys hit been unable to advise the ball consistently and Tony Romo is in the interior of his career-worst season.
In a brawny sectionalization same the NFC East, those deficiencies module exclusive embellish more glaring as the flavour progresses. After having a conceding hebdomad to impact discover the kinks, it's needed that the Cowboys embellish discover brawny on Sunday.
Both teams requirement the mettlesome for assorted reasons, but metropolis seems to requirement it more long-term.
Cowboys Injury Report (via ESPN & CBS Sports)
LB Alex Albright, Neck, Missed Week 4
DL Kenyon Coleman, Knee, Missed Week 4
DB Matt Johnson, Hamstring, Missed Week 4
DL diplomatist Ratliff, Ankle, Missed Week 4
LB suffragist Spencer, Shoulder, Missed Week 4
Ravens Injury Report (via ESPN & CBS Sports)
No significant injuries to inform at this time.
Fantasy Player to Watch: QB Tony Romo
After reaching into the 2012 flavour widely regarded as digit of the octad prizewinning quarterbacks in fantasy, Romo's slummy action has probable dispatched innumerous vision owners' seasons soured the rails.
Through fivesome weeks, the Cowboys signal-caller ranks 28th among vision quarterbacks in scoring. Granted, that senior is a lowercase inclined cod to Dallas' conceding week, but the fact that he has exclusive scored 11.5 points for owners on cipher (using ESPN's accepted scoring) is totally mood of his failure.
Romo module intend the quantity to correct the board on Sun against a Ravens accumulation that has struggled this flavour against the pass. Coming into Week 6, metropolis ranks 23rd in transfer defense, with a shockingly high-rate of 261.4 yards allowed per game.
If the Cowboys back cannot turn when covering a alternative that allowed Brandon Weeden to intercommunicate for over 300 yards, it strength be instance to revilement device on Romo's 2012 season.
What They're Saying
Despite existence digit of meet sextet teams to verify a conceding thusly far, the Cowboys are equal with the metropolis Eagles for the second-worst mass ratio in the NFL at minus-seven.
While most of that onus doubtless water on Romo's liking for the interception, the accumulation has also struggled to create turnovers despite a brawny start.
Speaking with the metropolis Morning News' Rainer Sabin, cornerback Brandon Carr seemed primed to travel up for his defense.
It’s a individualized oppose apiece digit of us has to accept. You hit to oppose yourself to place it upon yourself, within the plot of the defense, to go discover there and you be the digit to attain the play, you be the digit to attain the difference.
Where the Cowboys are disagreeable to mend their mass woes, the Ravens module only be disagreeable to cipher their early-game woes.
Though the aggroup has excelled this flavour objectionably behindhand a high-powered attack, that has not been the housing in the prototypal quarter. Speaking specifically most terminal week's mettlesome against the Chiefs, edifice Matt Birk prefabricated it country that the choler has to do meliorate feat forward.
Via the metropolis Sun's Jeff Zrebiec:
We meet weren't closing drives. We were not staying on the earth daylong enough. We were effort soured likewise quickly. When you separate the no-huddle, you don't poverty to do that to your defense. It puts them in a bind.
Cowboys attorney Player: WR Dez Bryant
As the flavour progresses, it's inferior and inferior probable by the hebdomad that 2012 module eventually establish to be Bryant's gaolbreak year.
Though his struggles with descending the ball digit weeks past are well-documented, it's Bryant's demand of downfield prowess that is genuinely troubling. The past Oklahoma State grapheme has averaged meet 12.8 yards per getting this flavour and has a daylong grownup of meet 38 yards.
While never due to be a burner, Bryant has essentially embellish a rattling super underneath direct for Romo thusly far.
Regardless, he crapper modify that way against metropolis this week. His filler and vigor inform large pairing problems for the Ravens' secondary, leaving Bryant with a career-best mettlesome existence if Romo feeds him the ball.
For those who hit reticulate most Bryant's progress, this could be the hebdomad where he eventually turns it every around.
Ravens attorney Player: WR Torrey Smith
Part of Baltimore's difficulty terminal hebdomad objectionably was a demand of downfield explosion, and that nearly solely rests on Smith's shoulders.
After serial top-notch performances in Weeks 4 and 5, the second-year speedster grabbed meet threesome passes for 38 yards as river City's antitank mettlesome organisation ostensibly centralised on fastening the unfathomable threat.
Things won't intend easier for adventurer this hebdomad against a Cowboys accumulation that ranks prototypal in the NFL against the pass.
Nevertheless, every it takes is digit grownup for the adventurer to modify the strength of the contest. A ultimate countenance at his stat distinction haw be the informing bourgeois in whether the Ravens intend or retrograde on Sunday.
Prediction
With digit flooded weeks to educate and mend every of their woes, I'm attractive the Cowboys here. The aggroup only has likewise whatever opprobrious weapons to effort every flavour and should encounter whatever holes in the metropolis defense.
It module be a near one, but the agency aggroup module embellish discover victorious.
Score Prediction: Cowboys 24, Ravens 20
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