Everyone and their mother is buying into the Lions and I do too just not on the road as we saw last week they struggled with the Vikings who sacked Stafford 5 times. That's not good news for them this week as they have been unable to run the ball this year and the Cowboys are 2nd vs. the run and 12th vs the pass. Cowboys can concentrate on stopping the pass this week and they should have a field day getting to Stafford with the pass rush expect Demarcus Ware who is on pace for a record breaking year. Cowboys also got a little healthy last week with Terrance Newman returning and he can definitely help a secondary as we saw when he's healthy. I think the pass rush will help this defense big time vs. the high powered Lions. On the other side Tony Romo has been the leagues MVP. I know I'd catch a lot of grief for that statement but I think he's doing more with less. Last week his receivers did not know the plays and he still rallied his team to a win. We saw signs of a running game last week and Felix Jones finally showed up and I think they will rely on him in the screen game to make plays. AT the end of the day I think Romo will have more confidence in the red zone and the Lions will struggle big time to guard Jason Witten, who hasn't. Expect a big win for the Cowboys today.
Wow, shocker right I'm not backing the Bills like the rest of the world. Guess what the Bengals defense is pretty tough, and I think the difference here is their ability to be strong up front on defense. Bengals defensive line goes about 8 deep and they are good. This is the first defense the Bills will play as they faced 23rd, 28th, and 32nd ranked total defense in the first three weeks. Bengals lost to the Bills a year ago and I think they will be playing on revenge with a shot to win in the end. Bengals are allowing just 18ppg and 88 rush yards for a total of 276.3 yards total. They'll hold the Bills to field goals instead of TD's and I expect Andy Dalton to come back with a big performance today to keep his team in the game all day long. Bengals are 7-2 ATS in their last 9 as a home dog where they always play solid defense and 7-1 ATS in their last 8 as a dog of .5-3points. I can't really call the Bills lucky, but in reality that's what they've been the ball has bounced their way I don't expect that to take them to 4-0 today.
