I'd be happier if this game was Sunday at noon Dallas time. Being a night game, the Saints will be looking to show the national TV audience just how good they are. It doesn't always work out that way though.
Looking at the Saints prior games, they have played 5 road games and won all with two blowouts against the Giants and Bengals. The Cowboys are better than both of those teams by a lot, especially on defense. The other 3 road games, they won by a total of 17 points. That's still pretty good. They beat the Falcons, Vikings and Ravens. The Ravens lost by 1 point. I think the Saints are not as good on the road as at home but they are still really good. Hopefully the Cowboys fans can make a lot of noise to disrupt the Saints signals a bit and slow the pass rush down.
My head tells me the Cowboys offense is not good enough to play with the Saints offense. The Saints are going to score 30 points or more because that's what they do every week. The Cowboys have scored more than 30 points only 2 times all year. Dak is going to have to use his feet to get first downs and keep the ball away from the Saints. The more success the Cowboys have running the football and eating up the clock the closer this game will be. If they keep it close, maybe they can eke out a win.
One word on the refs. The Cowboys caught a few breaks last week with the refs. That was unusual. The refs usually stiff the Cowboys big time. But my theory is the refs subconsciously favor certain teams, like the Saints. The Cowboys will have to play a really clean game Thursday because they will get called for every holding, block in the back, hands to the face and pass interference no matter how ticky-tack. We may even see one of those weird penalties they only call once every 100 years.
