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Dallas goes to Miami today for a very interesting early season clash. Miami is coming off a tough loss to Washington last week and being home this week could give them the 'comfort' zone they need to go 1-1 on the season.
Miami looked decent even though they took a pounding by the Redskins running back duo.
Dallas came away with a win against a soft Giant team and unless the defense shows up this week they could be in for a long day. Dallas beat the Giants 45-35, as neither team could stop the other.
Miami should not be able to keep up with the Dallas scoring machine but should be able to record many more stops than the Giants did last week.
I am looking for a much lower scoring game this week on the Dallas end and looking for Miami keeping it close to possibly pull out a win.

Miami+3.5 (1) Unit
Under 40.5 (1) Unit


COWBOYS (1-0) AT MIAMI DOLPHINS (0-1)
SERIES

COWBOYS
DOLPHINS

SERIES LEADER
7-3 Dolphins

STREAKS
5 of past 7 Dolphins

COACHES VS. OPP. Phillips: 3-1
Cameron: 0-0

LAST WEEK W 45-35 vs. Giants
L 16-13 (OT) at Redskins

LAST GAME
11/27/03: Dolphins 40 at Cowboys 21. Miami QB Jay Fielder passes for 3 TDs & runs for another as Dolphins win 3rd consecutive game.

LAST GAME AT SITE
10/27/96: Cowboys 29, Dolphins 10. Dallas QB Troy Aikman passes for 363 yards & 3 TDs. Cowboys defense limits Miami QB Dan Marino to 173 yards passing.


STATS
PASSING Romo: 15-24-345(1L)-4(T1L) -1-128.5(1C)
Green: 24-38-219-1-0-87.5

RUSHING
J. Jones: 16-66-4.1-0
Brown: 11-32-2.9-0

RECEIVING Witten (TE): 6-116-19.3-1
Chambers: 6-92-15.3-0

OFFENSE 478.0 (1L)
273.0

TAKE/GIVE -1
+1

DEFENSE
438.0
400.0

SACKS Ratliff: 1.0
Taylor, Thomas: 1.0

INTs Reeves: 1 (T1L)
Daniels, Hill: 1 (T1L)

PUNTING McBriar: 54.0
Fields (R): 42.7

KICKING Folk: 9 (6/6 PAT; 1/1 FG)
Feely: 7 (1/1/ PAT; 2/2 FG)


NOTES
COWBOYS: Scored 45 points last week vs. NYG, most points in opener since 1971 when team won SB VI over Miami.

QB TONY ROMO is 7-4 (.636) as starter with 2,986 yards & 20 TDs vs. 11 INTs for 100.2 passer rating. Had career-best 345 passing yards & scored 5 TDs (4 pass, 1 rush) last week.
Cowboys are 9-3 (.750) when RB JULIUS JONES rushes for 90+ yards. RB MARION BARBER has scored TD in 12 of past 16 (17 TDs). Has 4 TDs in past 3 vs. AFC.
WR TERRELL OWENS has caught 14 TDs in past 13 games. Owens had 2 TDs in Week 1 & his teams are 22-5 (.815) when he has 2+ TD catches. In past 16 interconference games, Owens has 103 catches for 1,570 yards (98.1 per game) with 15 TDs.
WR SAM HURD had 1st career TD catch in opener (51 yards).
JASON WITTEN has 223 receptions & 2,607 yards since 2004, 3rd among TEs in both categories. Led team with 6 catches & 116 yards (1 TD) last week.
LB DE MARCUS WARE has 15.5 sacks in past 19.
CB TERENCE NEWMAN had fumble recovery in last game vs. Dolphins.

DOLPHINS: Have won 10 of last 13 home openers.
CAM CAMERON (Off. coord. 2002-06) & Cowboys head coach WADE PHILLIPS (Def. coord. 2004-06) each served as coordinators for Chargers.
In last meeting vs. Cowboys (12/11/05 with Chiefs), QB TRENT GREEN was 20 of 32 for 340 yards & 1 TD. Last week, Green posted 87.5 passer rating.
RB JESSE CHATMAN posted career-high 6 receptions for 48 yards last week.
WR CHRIS CHAMBERS (380 rec.) needs 4 receptions to rank 5th on franchise's all-time list. Chambers totaled team-high 6 catches for 92 yards (15.3 avg.)last game.
Rookie WR/KR TED GINN averaged 23.3 yards on 3 kickoff returns & 5 yards on 4 punt returns in debut.
DE JASON TAYLOR needs 0.5 sacks to move into 16th place on NFL's all-time list.
LB ZACH THOMAS needs 13 starts to move into second place behind DAN MARINO (262) for most games started in Dolphins history.