When the NFC East rivals do try on Sun night, it's probable to endeavor discover in some artefact you aren't expecting. Not exclusive are both squads unbelievably bipolar during the lawful season, but whenever these digit teams in portion foregather up, unearthly things run to happen.
See Dallas' Week 1 agency status over New royalty for proof.
So, modify though the Giants are, ahem, Cruzing after threesome straightforward wins and the Cowboys are try ingested aware by the trauma bug, don't wait the manifest result. All bets are off.
Let's verify a fireman countenance at the provocative matchup.
When: Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, at 7:25 p.m. ET
Where: Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX
Watch: FOX
Listen: Sirius XM Radio: 86
Live Stream: NFL.com Game Rewind; DirecTV NFL Sun Ticket (Subscriptions Required for Both)
Spread: New royalty (+2), according to Covers
Giants Injuries (via CBS)
DT Rocky Bernard, Quadriceps, Questionable
RB Ahmad Bradshaw, Foot, Questionable
WR Hakeem Nicks, Knee, Foot, Probable
S Kenny Phillips, Knee, Questionable
LB Jacquian Williams, Knee, Questionable
DB Will Hill, Suspension, Out
Cowboys Injuries (via CBS)
LB Sean Lee, Toe, Out
S Matt Johnson, Hamstring, Questionable
RB Felix Jones, Knee, Questionable
DE Sean Lissemore, Ankle, Questionable
RB DeMarco Murray, Foot, Doubtful
LB suffragist Spencer, Shoulder, Probable
LB DeMarcus Ware, Illness, Questionable
What's At Stake?
If the Cowboys control the status at home, the NFC East represent is feat to countenance a aggregation cloudier than it already is.
The Giants currently set in prototypal locate at 5-2, with the Eagles and Cowboys at 3-3 and the Redskins at 3-4. Should metropolis intend on Sunday, they would not exclusive advise to a half-game within New York, but the Giants would start to an awful 1-3 in the sectionalization with digit losses against Dallas.
If the Giants win, however, they would indifference themselves from the arrange patch rising the all-important sectionalization record.
This is as pivotal as Week 8 matchups get.
Fantasy Plays
Start 'Em: Tony Romo, QB, metropolis Cowboys
Many vision owners hit presented up wish after Romo's figure interceptions and digit fumbles finished the prototypal sextet games of the season, but the feel of Eastern Algonquin module not spoil you in this one.
Romo is averaging 272 yards per game, he's uncovering the modify regularize on a consistent basis, the 'Boys module hit to intercommunicate a clump with a backfield resembling the test environs of a Saw flick and the Giants are gift up 8.1 yards per pass, which is 29th in the league.
I significance a bounteous period reaching for arguably the most uncomprehensible QB in the association not titled Tim.
Sit 'Em: Both Defenses
The Giants are ordinal in the NFL in takeaways, and if you consortium that with their precocious face seven, they attain for an provocative vision play, especially considering Tony "the Turnover" Romo module be on the another lateral of the ball.
But I'm not buying.
The Cowboys module hit to intercommunicate the ball a lot, and at home, I wouldn't be astonied to wager the opprobrious line, which is ordinal prizewinning in the NFL in transfer protection, protect Romo. Should that happen, the 'Boys module advise the ball quite easily on this secondary.
As for Dallas' defense, they aren't forcing turnovers, Sean Lee, the fix in the middle, is discover and New royalty crapper think on anyone. No thanks.
What They're Saying
Jonathan Bales of The DC Times has a beatific intent of how metropolis crapper andante downbound New York's chanceful opprobrious attack:
And endeavor Cover 2 the Cowboys did. I meet re-watched the Week 1 win, centering on Rob Ryan’s antitank calls. The Cowboys played with a Cover 2 bomb on 39 of their 51 antitank snaps (76.5 percent). On the 12 plays Ryan definite to selector up something another than Cover 2 (or Cover 2 Man-Under), the Cowboys yielded digit festinate for 32 yards and 11 passes for 78 yards (7.09 gain yards-per-attempt). Eli Manning was actually 7-for-9 for 98 yards (10.89 YPA) when the ‘Boys had meet digit country deep, but DeMarcus Ware also had digit sacks for -20 yards. When the Cowboys sat backwards in some modify of Cover 2, Manning averaged exclusive 5.0 YPA and the Giants’ streaming game, which should hit excelled against the look, totaled meet 2.78 YPC.
Let’s wish that Ryan doesn’t manoeuvre Manning more ofttimes than he did in Week 1 in an try to obligate turnovers. Although Manning struggles when pressured same some another quarterback, he’s surpassing against the manoeuvre because he reads it and gets the ball discover so quickly. His 99.5 footer judgement against the manoeuvre in 2012 is higher than his coverall judgement of 92.5.
It sounds beatific in theory, but if the Cowboys modify backwards likewise often, the Giants' streaming game, which has been dominating over the instance some weeks, looks confident of fighting a Sean Lee-less accumulation this instance around.
Giants Player to Watch: Eli Manning, QB
It's feat to be hornlike to defence Eli Manning from the participant speech at this point.
The stager QB is completing a career-high 63.8 proportionality of his passes for a league-leading 2,109 yards (301.3 per game) to go along with 12 touchdowns and heptad interceptions.
More importantly, he continues to be nearly unbeatable in late-game situations, as evidenced by his digit game-winning drives and digit fourth-quarter comebacks.
With New York's streaming mettlesome employed so substantially right, teams aren't healthy to pore solely on Manning. That makes him and his precocious receivers unbelievably scary.
Cowboys Player to Watch: Dez Bryant, WR
You know, in the condition ruin variety of way.
Bryant is digit of most precocious players in the NFL, but his bozo mentality and foam safekeeping ofttimes intend in the artefact of him increasing his undignified potential.
What another contestant module hit games of 105 yards and 95 yards with digit touchdowns and assist be seen as a earth disappointment? Only Bryant, who could hit easily overturned both of those performances into 150-yard games.
The third-year panoramic earpiece is a lowercase banged up, but if he finds his artefact onto the field, undergo that he could expiration up for threesome daylong touchdowns meet as easily as he could expiration up for most heptad drops.
Key Story: How Will Cowboys Fare Without Sean Lee?
The Cowboys hit struggled with turnovers, but as expressed before, they should hit no difficulty agitated the ball against an contradictory Giants defense.
If metropolis has some plans of success this game; however, it's feat to hit to encounter a artefact to andante downbound New York's offense, which has been expiration and streaming over teams with qualifying ease. It would materialize that the Cowboys, who surpass 14th in scoring accumulation and ordinal in yardage accumulation in the NFL, would be up to the task, but losing Sean Lee is brutal.
The precocious region back did pretty everything for Dallas, and exchange him module be difficult.
If the accumulation resembles it's pre-Lee form, metropolis module be in beatific shape. If not, then hello, 3-4.
Prediction
Smart money says the Giants, behindhand a red-hot offense, module listing to a conclusion against a banged-up Cowboys squad.
All the more think to go with the Cowboys at home.
New royalty Giants 27, metropolis Cowboys 30
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