Cowboys Super Bowl Odds Fade to +3300; Jones Insists He Won’t Fire Garrett
- Sportsbooks have faded the Super Bowl odds on the Dallas Cowboys to +3300
- NFC East-leading Dallas was +2000 before Thursday’s 26-15 loss to the Buffalo Bills dropped the Cowboys to 6-6 on the season
- Team owner Jerry Jones insisted after the latest loss that he won’t fire head coach Jason Garrett during the season
The Super Bowl 54 odds of the Dallas Cowboys are a lot like the team. They’re up, they’re down, and lately they’re fading fast.
On Thanksgiving Thursday, the Cowboys were humbled 26-15 at home by the 9-3 Buffalo Bills. That loss dropped Dallas to 6-6 on the season. It also sent the 2020 Super Bowl odds of the Cowboys plummeting.
Sportsbooks faded Dallas to +3330. They had the Cowboys at +2000 entering Thursday’s game.
Super Bowl 54 Odds
| Team | Odds |
|---|---|
| Baltimore Ravens | +300 |
| New England Patriots | +300 |
| San Francisco 49ers | +500 |
| New Orleans Saints | +550 |
| Kansas City Chiefs | +1000 |
| Seattle Seahawks | +1200 |
| Green Bay Packers | +2000 |
| Minnesota Vikings | +2000 |
| Houston Texans | +3300 |
| Dallas Cowboys | +3300 |
Odds taken Nov. 29.
A cross-section of leading online betting houses showed the average Super Bowl odds for Dallas to be +2500 before the setback against the Bills.
Frustration of Cowboys Hits Boiling Point
Following Thursday’s loss, a player could be heard shouting angrily at his teammates within the Dallas locker room. It turned out to be defensive end Michael Bennett, who was traded last month to the Cowboys by the New England Patriots.
That’s how grim things are with this team. The only thing to shout about is how terrible they are.
Pick your corner:
1. #Cowboys brought in a guy who knows how to establish a Super Bowl culture and did his part by speaking up.
OR
2. Dallas imported a guy a few weeks ago who's already more pissed about what he sees with the execution than people who were here when he arrived https://t.co/Wi3ihBvLBP
— Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) November 29, 2019
Bennett, who won a Super Bowl in Seattle, later suggested that his locker-room tirade was designed to fire up his teammates. But’s it’s going to take more than fire and brimstone to turn the Cowboys around.
Dallas is 3-6 straight up in its last nine games. The Cowboys are 0-6 when trailing at halftime.
Garrett Is Safe . . . For Now
Teary-eyed Cowboys owner Jerry Jones insisted after the game that there was no point in firing head coach Jason Garrett. Jones believes that were they to change coaches now, the team would most certainly miss the playoffs.
Yeah, he’s not happy pic.twitter.com/I5MfMwldVv
— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) November 29, 2019
Mid-season coaching changes have never been the style in Dallas. Since joining the NFL in 1960, the Cowboys changed out coaches once in season. That was in 2010, when Jones replaced Wade Phillips with Garrett.
This Is a Bad Football Team
The loss to the Bills dropped the Cowboys to 0-5 against teams with winning records. They’ve been taken down by the Bills, Patriots, Minnesota Vikings, Green Bay Packers, and New Orleans Saints.
Gonna tell my kids these are the Dallas Cowboys… pic.twitter.com/dvVo7gghLX
— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) November 29, 2019
Two-time NFL rushing champ Ezekiel Elliott ran for 71 yards Thursday, and 30 of it came on one play. Among NFL quarterbacks, only Tampa Bay’s Jameis Winston (17) is responsible for more multi-turnover games in the past two seasons than the 13 committed by Dallas QB Dak Prescott.
Kicker Brett Maher connects on 67.8 percent of his field goals.
Still a Chance at Playoffs?
On paper, the Cowboys should be a Super Bowl contender. On the field, they most certainly are not.
In the past two weeks, Dallas was beaten by the Bills and the Patriots but the good news is that the Cowboys don’t play in the AFC East. They’re in the NFC East . . . or is that the NFC Least?
And Dallas still hasn’t beaten a team this season that entered its game with a winning record.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 29, 2019
At 6-6, Dallas still leads this pitiful division. But if this pattern of losing to good teams and beating bad teams continues, it’s a division that belongs to the Cowboys.
Following that trend, Dallas would end up 9-7 and take the NFC East from the Philadelphia Eagles via tiebreaker.
This pretty much says it all. #DallasCowboys pic.twitter.com/CJqZ6ZHfqZ
— Leigh Ann Adam (@Leighannadam) November 29, 2019
Bet the Cowboys to win the NFC East. But any further wagers on the Cowboys would be like this team.
Lost, hopeless, and a waste.
An industry veteran, Bob literally taught the course on the history of sports at Elder College. He has worked as a Sports Columnist for Postmedia, appeared as a guest on several radio stations, was the Vice President of the Society For International Hockey Research in Ontario, and written 25 books.
