Cowboys vs. Packers Pick: Back Dallas as the Underdog

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Oct 18, 2026
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All right. So is it time now for the Cowboys
to start fooling everybody again? This is usually like their good spot.
As soon as they hit 15-point favorites, then they'll win.
And then they play a game they're not supposed to win.
And then maybe this is the game that they end up winning
and then get everybody back on board.
And then, of course, they'll play Washington at home.
They'll be two touchdown favorites and lose outright.
But that's usually what they do.
this week they're at Green Bay, the Packers have started
to turn their season around without a
doubt they seem like they've got things going
in the right direction the combination of those two
wide receivers it's like finally back the Packers have
not had wide receivers that have been
formidable really since Davante Adams
and it looks like Golden and Watson are both formidable there
they really don't run the ball that well
but they could throw it of course you would expect that in
Green Bay tonight uh here we go Joe this is the time
that everybody's off Dallas now and everybody's
on Green Bay but but maybe it is maybe it is Dallas's time
but uh i just can't trust Dallas
at all but definitely feel better about them
as a dog than a favorite i can't ever take them as a
favorite this is called the close
your eyes special Craig you're exactly right when Dallas
should win games and situations at home
on short weeks rookie quarterbacks yeah yeah Dallas should
handle their business but they don't a game where you have
to go on the road to Green Bay, a team
that has played them tough,
handed them a very embarrassing loss
in the playoffs just a few years ago, too.
Let's not forget that.
Yeah, this is probably where you should be in on Dallas.
There's no rhyme or reason to it.
To try to put some sort of stability on this chaos
that is the Dallas Cowboys is absurd.
But yeah, plus one and a half on the Cowboys.
Seems like the side you should be on in this game.
I'm still not sold on the Packers defense.
It was a weird game last week.
Some amazing plays by Love and Christian Watson
and Golden in that game
where they just opened things up
against that Bears secondary that just could not stop anybody.
The Cowboys can't really stop anybody either.
Does it matter?
No.
They'll probably find a way anyway because, of course,
whenever you write off the Cowboys
in games that they probably shouldn't win,
that's when they find ways to win.
So I'm just going to go with you, Craig,
and I wish I had more data to support this,
except that all the data that we watch
every single year with the Cowboys
not handling their business when they should
and surprising us when they have no business winning football games.
So there you have it, everybody.
Those are my special Dallas Cowboys
this week and season I mean I don't even love Dallas I just know that
I'm more apt to take them as a dog than
as a favorite as a favorite it's a zero it's a zero
percent because because they're not it's
not that Dallas won't cover as a favorite it's just they
cover less than 50 percent of the time
so that's just an immediate no as a dog yeah i mean there's there's
a there's a little bit more of a chance at least
that I could see that coming through and you know
for Green Bay they're playing better
but the odds makers are sort of telling us it's a little bit
fraudulent or else Green Bay would be three
or Green Bay would be four or Green Bay be two and
a half but as you can see here the line uh certainly is close
