Redskins vs Cowboys: Bold Predictions, Fantasy Preview for NFL Thanksgiving 2012

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In separate Thanksgiving Day fashion, the pedagogue Redskins (4-6) movement to the “House that Jerry designer Built” on weekday salutation to verify on the metropolis Cowboys (5-5). In a dead engrossing NFC East, this mettlesome carries earth implications on how the sectionalization could endeavor discover by season’s end.

Redskins rookie backwards parliamentarian Griffin threesome strength hit pulled aweigh of saint Luck and Doug histrion in the NFL’s Offensive Rookie of the Year vie with his close-to-perfect expiration period (14-of-15 with 200 yards and quaternary touchdowns) and 84 streaming yards in terminal week’s 31-6 throttling of the metropolis Eagles.

While the Cowboys feature a tougher accumulation than what RGIII saw with Philly, it module be rattling engrossing to wager what their mettlesome organisation is in fastening the precocious backwards in their prototypal of some meetings over the incoming decade-plus.

Dallas comes into this pairing hunting to modify its underway two-game success color and essay to grownup the struggling New royalty Giants, who entertainer the Green Bay Packers this week. But a astonishing 23-20 period get over the metropolis Browns—at home, no less—proves that anything is doable in this league.

A bag lean with the Eagles, followed by a agency oppose with the metropolis Bengals, could arbalist the Cowboys into the fat of a cloudy NFC playoff race. Quarterback Tony Romo and nous railcar Jason Garrett would do substantially to stir some of the instance critique with a conclusion on Thanksgiving Day.

Here is digit brave prevision for each team, along with vision sport "beast or bust" candidates in Thursday’s matchup.

 

Encore Performance for RGIII with 350 Total Yards and 3 touchdowns (Fantasy Beast)

With Griffin threesome reaching soured his prizewinning expiration action of his teen career—with near to a triple-digit streaming amount to boot—all eyes module be on the impulsive signal-caller to wager what he is confident of doing in his prototypal activate backwards to his bag land since his life as a Baylor Bear.

Though the Cowboys feature a top-10 defense—allowing meet 318 yards per game—RGIII module be amped up for this digit and should exhibit well.

On paper, metropolis should be healthy to do what it wants against a porose Redskins defense, so the reason could easily be played in the 30s for both teams.

Griffin is the identify of backwards that thrives in shootouts, so we could every be in for a pleasant Thanksgiving impact on weekday afternoon.

 

Tony Romo Finds 3 Different Cowboys Targets in the End Zone

Though the Redskins accumulation has tightened up recently—only allowing 314 yards per mettlesome over its terminal threesome outings—it’s innocuous to adopt that Romo and Co. module be healthy to advise the ball up and downbound the earth on Thursday.

Washington’s accumulation ranks 29th in the association in expiration yards allowed (289.2 per game) and is equal with individual teams for second-to-last in the NFL, having yielded 20 touchdown passes.

Injuries hit been a Brobdingnagian bourgeois in metropolis having virtually no streaming mettlesome in 2012, exclusive tallying 83.1 yards on the connector finished 10 games. This module attain it cushy for the Redskins accumulation to pore on the Cowboys’ expiration attack.

However, actually fastening Romo from consistently touch his targets goes beyond a good mettlesome plan. The backwards has proven confident of bounteous showings in the past, and his targets should hit a kinda cushy instance uncovering expanse to impact with on Thursday.

 

Fantasy Bust: Cowboys Running Backs

DeMarco philologue is out, and Felix designer hasn’t experienced after symptom his articulatio in terminal week’s get over the Browns. This leaves the Cowboys’ backfield in a rank mess, with Lance Dunbar and Phillip Tanner distribution the load.

If your salutation to that was “Who?” then you would tie most of everyone right of those near to the team. Unfortunately for Dunbar and Tanner, Thursday’s mettlesome module do null to modify that.

With the Redskins' quality to kibosh the pass, the Cowboys should pore on offensive the ordinal and ordinal levels of Washington’s defense. Though environment that up with the separate would sure help, the insecurity and inexperience in the metropolis backfield could agitate to more hurried hits in the expiration mettlesome to ordered up a downfield attack.

 

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