NFL Football Odds & Picks –Cowboys Need Big Win Over Chicago Bears

I bet the NFL schedule makers had higher hopes for this matchup when they made it back in the Spring! The Dallas Cowboys will play their first home game at the billion dollar estate of Jerry Jones against the Chicago Bears, and both of these sad sacks look like chumps heading in to the Week 2 football odds. Chicago may have got the win, but they’re still distant dogs against the home town Cowboys.

Could anything more have gone wrong for Dallas last week? They allowed a fumble recovery touchdown, and nullified their own game winning score from Tony Romo to Roy Williams with a holding penalty. Talk about a veritable disaster.

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Here’s the misleading part about that game: Tony Romo actually played half decent. He completed 31-of-47 passes for 282 passing yards and connected with Miles Austin (10 catches, 146 yards and a contract extension completely justified) and didn’t yield a turnover. But he also didn’t take control of the game.

Which is exactly why I don’t list him as an elite quarterback. At 30-years old, there’s a damn good reason Romo has one playoff win on his resume and it’s because he’s a bad leader, which is way many Dallas betting backers are backing off the Cowboys in the football odds betting pool.

The fun loving, celebrity dating guy who wormed his way in to the hearts of so many still wears his hat backwards and while that isn’t the biggest proof that he hasn’t matured, you can tell by the way the Cowboys played that Romo hasn’t grown as a leader.

Chicago Bears (1-0) vs. Dallas Cowboys (0-1)
Sunday, September 19th — Cowboys Stadium — 1:00pm EST
NFL Football Odds: Dallas -7.0 (40.5)

Montana, Elway, Young, Manning and Brady all have that gene. They have that switch where they can just turn on an unknown level of competitiveness and lift the spirits of everyone around them to play at their best. We’ve seen glimpses of it in Romo, but there’s no way Dallas walks out of that game with a loss considering how badly Washington played with a real commander under center. On top of that they lost to the Washington Redskins, a division rival and a team that had no business winning a football game.

Which is exactly how I feel about the Chicago Bears.

To say that the Bears were pitiful in Week 2 is an understatement. After knocking Matt Stafford out of the game, the Bears barely clung on to a 19-14 win. They may have mounted 462 yards of total offense, but they also gave up four turnovers (3 fumbles lost out of 4 and one interception) and Detroit did not play a great game.

If Chicago can’t play that well at home, I don’t like their football odds on the road at all, especially against a Dallas team that will be dialed in to prove they’re not a lame duck contender. Chicago’s 1-5 SU/ATS record in their past 6 games does nothing to comfort me despite the spread moving from -8.5 down to -7.0 for Dallas.

I’m not even halfway convinced that Tony Romo can overcome the football odds this year and put Dallas in a position to contend for Super Bowl XLV. But can they beat the Chicago Bears early in the season and clear that spread? You bet.

Furious NFL Football Odds Buster – Dallas Cowboys -7.0 (OVER)

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