Thursday, August 25th
NFL Preseason
Cowboys at Seahawks (-6, 43.5) - 10 pm ET (NFL Network)
NFL teams go about preseason games in different ways. Some teams will just go thru the motions, and others actually use the games to prepare them for the regular season. It all depends on the coach’s philosophy.
Dallas has made headlines this preseason because of the outstanding play of rookie quarterback Dak Prescott. He has lit-up opposing defenses in the first two games, and his style of play leads to a lot of success in the second half of preseason games. Prescott can exploit second and third stringers, but he’ll likely now have to do it against Seattle’s starters while missing receiver Dez Bryant who suffered a concussion in practice this week.
Seattle head coach Pete Carroll was one who used to care about winning preseason games. The Seahawks would play with a sense of purpose, but that was during their up and coming days. Things have changed. Seattle’s roster has been shredded after paying their stars big money. And because of that, Carroll had no choice but to pull back on going all out in the first two preseason games in order to preserve his team for the regular season. But Carroll is singing a different tune coming into this game: “I’d like to see us play a lot sharper and see where that leaves us,” Carroll said. “We want to play great football all across the board. We want to be in attack mode. We just haven’t put the ball in the end zone as much as we want to, but we’re going to do that, we’re excited about that.”
The line is simply too high for a preseason game, but Seattle reads like they are coming to play. And even though Dallas will have a nice quarterback edge, Prescott will be playing without his best asset on the field and that’s enough to keep me off the Cowboys in this game.
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