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The Dallas Cowboys had been the ideal franchise in football for a protracted time, however owner Jerry Jones sees Week 1 opponent Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the heavyweight in their Sept. 9 battle.
“We are going to have a fashion of prayer, so shall we catch the braveness to assert up,” Jones joked on Serve Together Saturday (by technique of Adam Maya of NFL.com). “Let me expose you this: World champion Tom Brady, Tampa, gigantic environment—what a higher replacement to step up there and be David against Goliath.”
The Cowboys are within the within the period in-between six-point underdogs against the reigning Mountainous Bowl champions, per DraftKings.
Dallas can also just amassed have high expectations heading into the 365 days with Dak Prescott getting again from his season-ending leg injury, though the defense amassed has most fundamental demand of marks after permitting the fifth-most substances within the NFL in 2020. Tampa Bay, within the period in-between, returns nearly every vital participant from the squad that dominated the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs within the Mountainous Bowl. Quarterback Tom Brady will birth his quest for an eighth profession championship.
It amassed may perhaps presumably presumably be a stretch for anybody to be concept to be a Goliath against the Cowboys, the most respected sports crew on this planet. It be no longer precisely the identical as Alabama taking on Mercer on Sept. 11 this 365 days.
The Buccaneers also opened final season with a loss to the division rival New Orleans Saints, which reveals the tactic you stay is draw extra vital than the tactic you birth.
