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The Dallas Cowboys’ play efficaciously ended successful Week 5 past twelvemonth erstwhile backmost Dak Prescott was carted disconnected with a gruesome ankle injury.
The Cowboys suffered done a parade of underperforming backup quarterbacks connected the mode to a 6-10 finish, allowing the Washington Football Team to instrumentality the NFC East with a pedestrian grounds of 7-9.
Prescott is back, and Dallas is again the favourite successful the division, but present a lingering enarthrosis wounded has formed uncertainty connected the Cowboys’ chances.
Dallas insists Prescott is bully to spell for Thursday’s opener astatine Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay. For Cowboys backers’ sake, helium amended be.
“If they person to enactment immoderate of those backups in, it’s going to beryllium a disaster,” Circa sportsbook manager Chris Bennett said.
The Cowboys are 22-1 to triumph the Super Bowl astatine Circa Sports and -115 to marque the playoffs. Their play triumph full is 9 (over -120).
Dallas boasts an arsenal of violative endowment successful moving backmost Ezekiel Elliott and receivers Amari Cooper, Michael Gallup and CeeDee Lamb. The occupation is simply a defence that gave up 33 points oregon much successful 8 games past season.
“That discourtesy is going to person to triumph a batch of games for you,” Red Rock Resort sportsbook manager Chuck Esposito said.
If Prescott and Dallas can’t instrumentality control, the part is wide open. Last season, each squad successful the NFC East was an odds-on favourite (a minus terms specified arsenic -115 oregon higher) to triumph it astatine 1 point, Bennett said.
“Honestly, I could spot the aforesaid happening happening again this year,” helium said. “… I don’t truly similar immoderate of the 4 teams.”
Here’s a speedy glimpse astatine the remainder of the division:
Washington Football Team
— Season triumph total: 8½ (o-130)
— Make playoffs (yes/no): +130/-150
— Super Bowl odds: 40-1
Washington rode a beardown defence to the part rubric past season. It could bash the aforesaid this year. Bettors person surely banked connected it astatine the Westgate SuperBook, wherever Washington is the second-largest Super Bowl liability, sportsbook manager John Murray said.
“People are each implicit them for immoderate reason,” helium said. “We opened them 80-1 and person taken a batch of tickets connected them. One feline has $5,000 astatine 60-1. We went to 50-1 and 40-1 later, and they’re inactive betting them astatine 40-1. There’s much tickets connected Washington winning their part than connected immoderate different squad winning immoderate different division.”
Veteran backmost Ryan Fitzpatrick could springiness the discourtesy a boost, but that’s not a given, Bennett said.
Fitzpatrick “can look truly bully astatine times and tin look truly atrocious astatine times,” Bennett said. “And he’s beauteous aged (38).”
New York Giants
— Season triumph total: 7 (o-115)
— Make playoffs (yes/no): +280/-335
— Super Bowl odds: 125-1
The Giants showed immoderate signs of beingness past play and were live to triumph the part successful the last week, but their hopes remainder squarely connected the continued improvement (or not) of third-year backmost Daniel Jones.
“It’s a large twelvemonth for Daniel Jones,” Esposito said. “Daniel Jones has to instrumentality the adjacent step.”
Jones is 8-18 arsenic a starter, throwing for 5,970 yards with 35 touchdowns and 22 interceptions. Bennett said Circa did not person a azygous summons connected Jones to triumph NFL MVP this season, an oddity for an unchallenged starting quarterback. His likelihood are present each the mode to 175-1.
Philadelphia Eagles
— Season triumph total: 7 (u-150)
— Make playoffs (yes/no): +315/-385
— Super Bowl odds: 125-1
The Eagles are slotted 4th successful the part with backmost Jalen Hurts starting successful his 2nd play nether caller manager Nick Sirianni, but idiosyncratic retired determination likes them.
Circa has taken crisp bets connected the Eagles to triumph the NFC (+5,750) and adjacent to person the astir regular-season wins successful the NFL (80-1), Bennett said.
Circa has besides taken immoderate bets connected the Eagles to person the astir regular-season losses (15-1).
Best bet
Cowboys to triumph the part (+200 astatine the Westgate): Prescott’s wellness is simply a concern, but each squad successful the NFC East has concerns. Dallas inactive has the astir talent.
Contact Jim Barnes astatine jbarnes@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0277. Follow @JimBarnesLV connected Twitter. Review-Journal unit writer Todd Dewey contributed to this report.
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