Chiefs vs. Cowboys: Thrilling Thanksgiving Showdown

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00:00Game number two on Thanksgiving day, 4.30 p.m. kickoff. It's the Kansas City Chiefs and the

00:04Dallas Cowboys. This game was set up to be dead on arrival on Sunday midway through those games.

00:10The Philadelphia Eagles had a 21-0 lead over Dallas, and it looked like the Indianapolis

00:13Colts in the second half with a double-digit lead over the Chiefs. We're going to walk away

00:17victors and left with this game as, ah, yeah, we'll watch because it's Thanksgiving, but not

00:20a lot of meaning. That's not the case anymore. Dallas back into the playoff picture at least

00:24has a heartbeat, and you take a look at Kansas City off of the carpet as well. This line, Joe,

00:28opened up as a look ahead at 4.5 as a favorite towards the Chiefs. We now see 3.5s and 3s in

00:35the marketplace, and a total that has climbed up from the high 40s into the 52.5 range, depending

00:40once again which book you're looking at here. Kansas City and Dallas on Thanksgiving. It's an

00:44interesting one for me because as you set it up, like you can never really kill Kansas City. It

00:49feels like, you know, Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, you always have a chance, defense with Spagnoli.

00:53We get it. They're not as explosive as before. They are getting Isaiah Pacheco in this game,

00:57and last week, Kareem Hunt, they actually gave the football to 30 times and worked out in their

01:00favor. Good win over the Colts, but I'd look at the Dallas Cowboys team and say, yes, they made

01:04some trades at the deadline. Queen and Williams is a big deal on that defensive line. I get it,

01:09but that secondary is still suspect. The Philadelphia Eagles are in a funk on offense right now. They

01:13just were a rudderless ship for three quarters in that game. I don't think Kansas City is going to

01:18be that way, so let me start here, Joe. That Dallas defense, how does it hold up against Kansas City?

01:23Or you're buying back in on Dallas, who went up against the lowly Raiders and look good,

01:27and then the Eagles had a miraculous comeback because the Eagles just bottom fell out in the

01:31second half. How are we approaching this game from a Dallas perspective?

01:35Well, it's interesting here because the market believes Dallas, off that win against Philadelphia

01:42at home with this new look defense, maybe a little bit undervalued in this spot. And I would

01:48tend to agree with him if this game was on, oh, I don't know, Donnie, Sunday, but it's on a short

01:54week. And history tells us the Chiefs, not just the Chiefs, but when we get these Thursday games at

02:01this point in the season, right? Week 11, Donnie, this isn't week four, this week and five, right?

02:06This is after week 11. Here we are, week 13. There is a reason why the Chiefs are a road favorite

02:14because road favorites on Thanksgiving, Donnie, 25 and one straight up, 20 and six against the

02:20number since 2004. And it makes sense. That's a trend that makes sense to me, Donnie, because again,

02:26we're past the point of, oh, it's just, it's variants. We don't know what the team really,

02:31we know what these teams are. The books know what these teams are now here heading into week 13.

02:36And for the Chiefs to be a field goal or more favorite, they are a field goal or more favorite

02:43on Thanksgiving for a reason. It's the only thing keeping me off backing Dallas is because that

02:50trend makes a lot of sense to me, given where we are in the season and given the fact that you can

02:55have a great defense now, but Mahomes is still, you still got to stop Mahomes and that offense.

03:01And I have my questions.