Week 13: Thanksgiving Day Kansas City Chiefs vs. Dallas Cowboys – Game Preview + Predictions

The Chiefs have never led in this football game. Arisa waits for the go signal, but this kick is good. They get a walk-off field goal in overtime. An NFL tradition, Thanksgiving football, and this week the Chiefs are right in the middle of it. They go to Dallas to play the Cowboys. So many story lines to this game. Yeah, a lot of big story lines here in this game. And of course, the Chiefs began as the Dallas Texans way back in 1960 before becoming the Chiefs. And of course, Patrick Mahomes grew up in the Dallas metro area. I think this game is pretty important to Patrick, don’t you think? Yeah. I mean, Tyler, Texas, 117 miles away, but he uh wants to go there to Dallas to beat these guys along with all of his friends who grew up in Tyler. And then Andy Reid, the fact that he has had such a rivalry against the Cowboys going back to his 14 years in Philadelphia, 19 and 13, I think, against the Cowboys. And then this season with the Cowboys at 551 and the Chiefs at 6 and5, the importance is there. Yeah. And the Chiefs coming off an epic, incredible win over the Colts. A game the Chiefs really needed, right? Being down 11 points uh midway through the fourth quarter, finding a way in all three phases to win that game. A big big win for the Chiefs. Got to keep it rolling now here though. And uh no time to really think about it playing the Cowboys here on a short week. That’s the challenge on a short week, particularly on the road. one of the hardest things I think in all of professional sports to do and to win a game. But this Cowboy team, Dak Prescott is healthy. Last year he had the hamstring problem, missed a good portion of the season, but this year the Cowboys, we’re going to say this again. You can copy and paste this from last week’s game preview. We’re facing the number one team offensively in the league for the second straight week. Yeah, it feels like every single week we’re facing these incredible offenses, and the Dallas Cowboys certainly are an incredible offense. Uh it’s the number four scoring offense in the NFL, but the number one total offense in the league in terms of yards. They’re averaging just under 400 yards per game. They’re second in the NFL on first downs behind the Chiefs actually who are number one. Uh they’re sixth on third down this year and they have the fewest negative plays in the NFL. And it really gets back to their tandem at wide receiver with George Pickins and CD Lamb. Pickins has been incredible this year for them. Already over 1,000 yards receiving and he’s coming off back-to-back games with at least 140 yards through the air. You can’t let Pickins go off in this game. They have others, too. Jake Ferguson, a Pro Bowl tight end from two years ago. Javvante Williams, a guy we’re familiar with after his time with the Broncos. A lot of weapons uh to this Cowboys offense, and they’ve rebuilt their offensive line. Well, I’m glad you mentioned Javvante Williams because it might be easy to forget about him when you have these great receivers on the outside, but he’s been great for them this year, kind of having a career resurgence. We of course remember him from his time in Denver. He has nearly 900 rushing yards this year, eight rushing touchdowns, and he’s averaging just under five yards per carry. And think about what he does for their play action passing game. Dak Prescott was awesome using play action against the Eagles last week. He completed nine of 11 passes for 174 yards on those playaction dropbacks. The reason that was effective is Javvante Williams was running the ball effectively. Try to shut down Javvante Williams in this game like the Chiefs did against Jonathan Taylor last week. And don’t let Dak Prescott use that play action so effectively. And Dak Prescott, we have to mention now, he’s the all-time Cowboys passing leader. Think about Roger Stavach, Don Meredith, Troy Aman, down through the years, Tony Romo, but Prescott’s at the top of that list. Now, what Dallas has done though to help them get two wins after the buy, they made two significant moves on defense. They got Logan Wilson, the linebacker from the Cincinnati Bengals, and Quinnon Williams in a trade from the Jets. That seems to have changed their defense dramatically big time. I think this is a different defense than we saw early in the year. Overall, their numbers show that they have struggled defensively. They’re bottom of the NFL in a lot of defensive categories, but it’s kind of a different defense in general. They have numerous players out there who are not out there earlier in the year, and I think we’ve seen success because of that. Uh they’re allowing an average of just 19 points per game over their last two matchups. And Williams has been kind of key to all that. He had eight pressures last week against the Eagles, obviously a really good player. And also they got Demarian Overshot back, a player that they like a lot. Hasn’t played yet this year. Well, he’s back now. And rookie Shavan Revel Jr. out of East Carolina at corner. Really good player. He’s back for them now as well. So this defense, yeah, they’ve struggled overall statistically, but they’re better than their numbers might indicate, but this feels like a game. Do it for Patrick Mahomes. Do it for Andy Reid. Do it for Lamar Hunt’s memory. Uh, and so the Chiefs against the Cowboys with a lot on the line.

Voice of the Chiefs Mitch Holthus and senior team reporter Matt McMullen preview the upcoming Week 13 NFL matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday.

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📺: Thanksgiving Day Chiefs vs Cowboys at 3:30 p.m. CT | CBS
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