On this week’s edition of Sunday Night Football, the Dallas Cowboys will head out west for a massive game against the San Francisco 49ers. What could be the 2 best teams in the NFC are meeting in the Bay Area, and the hosts are a short favorite in what promises to be an excellent game from start to finish. So, who will come out on top? I have an idea of how the proceedings might go, and I’ve used it to create my Same Game Parlay for Sunday Night Football at nearly 6/1 odds. Let’s get into it.
Dallas Cowboys ML (+154) over San Francisco 49ers
We’ve got a rematch of the 2023 divisional round playoff game, and it's an identical spread with identical movement. Kind of freaky. This game opened at San Francisco -3.5, got bet up to -4 and has since been played back mostly to 3.5 – although there are some +4s available at major sportsbooks. It makes sense since the game is again in San Francisco and there's not much that's changed about either team. Dallas' offense is probably a bit more explosive anecdotally now that it has committed full-time to Tony Pollard and Dak Prescott has – as promised – taken much better care of the ball. Neither one of these teams has really played anyone all that good, which is a factor here into the handicap.
If the Cowboys have a relatively clean sheet on the injury report with their offensive line, there should be enough enough here to keep this game within a field goal. They have been able to move the ball every week and their red zone numbers (which are admittedly quite poor) should regress to the mean. It's also a peak motivation spot, since the Cowboys have been thrown out of the playoffs at the hands of the 49ers 2 years in a row. The 49ers are the class of the NFC and have looked unstoppable, but they can be exploited on the offensive line – and the Cowboys, with Micah Parsons, have the personnel to do it. I'll take the field goal here in a battle of 2 pretty evenly-matched teams in the NFC.
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