Week 11 NFL Picks: Predictions, Advice for Latest Vegas Spreads, Odds and Props

A number of factors were going against the Dallas Cowboys as they prepared for their Week 10 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

In addition to playing on the road, they were facing a Pittsburgh team with a powerful offense that needed the game badly. The Steelers had lost three games in a row, but a win would give them the same 5-4 record as the first-place Baltimore Ravens.

The Steelers have perhaps the most dangerous QB-RB-WR trio in the league in Ben Roethlisberger, Le’Veon Bell and Antonio Brown, and while the Cowboys had been playing respectable defense (ranked 12th in total yards allowed per game, according to cbssports.com), they didn’t appear to have the personnel to match up with that threesome.

The Cowboys were rolling along with a seven-game winning streak, and they didn’t care about how much the Steelers needed the game. They traded punches with the Steelers for 60 minutes and then came up with the end-of-game haymaker when rookie Ezekiel Elliott ran through a huge hole and scooted 32 yards into the end zone for the game-winning touchdown in a 35-30 victory.

That’s a huge lesson for handicappers. There is no let-up with the NFC East-leading Cowboys, and this week they return home for a game with the aforementioned Ravens.

Baltimore does not have the same kind of high-powered offensive weapons as some of the best teams in the league. The Ravens rank 25th on offense, according to cbssports.com, as strong-armed Joe Flacco (nine touchdowns and nine interceptions) is not having his best year. The RB-WR duo of Terrance West and Mike Wallace is below average.

The Baltimore defense has moved to the top of the league in yards allowed, and there is a notable improvement in their tackling with the addition of former San Diego Charger safety Eric Weddle, who has 45 stops and nine passes defensed.

But this is a different Cowboys team, one with a strong killer instinct. Dallas is a seven-point favorite, according to Odds Shark, and the Cowboys are not going to let an ordinary Baltimore offensive team stay in the game. The Cowboys will get the job done in the fourth quarter once again, as they will win the game and get the cover.

New England at San Francisco

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