{"id":62577,"date":"2025-11-24T09:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/62577\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:03:19","slug":"kansas-city-chiefs-are-favored-over-the-dallas-cowboys-in-week-12-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/62577\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs are favored over the Dallas Cowboys in Week 12 odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Thursday \u2014 Thanksgiving Day \u2014 the <a href=\"\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> (6-5) will go on the road to play the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingtheboys.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> (5-5-1) in a Week 13 matchup. Kickoff is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Arrowhead Time on CBS \u2014 locally on KCTV\/5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As the holiday season gets underway, the Chiefs are unfamiliar with their place in the AFC standings. Their home overtime victory over the Colts was essentially a must-win in order for Kansas City to remain alive in the playoff race. In Sunday\u2019s matchup, the Chiefs displayed many of the flaws that have plagued them throughout the 2025 season \u2014 but they also showed grit and determination, erasing an 11-point 4th quarter deficit in their comeback win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Against the Colts\u2019 offense \u2014 ranked No. 1 in the league \u2014 the defense had its most impressive showing of the season, preventing a first down in the last four Indianapolis possessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cowboys \u2014 who will be hosting their annual Thanksgiving showdown \u2014 are coming off a comeback victory of their own, overcoming a 21-0 deficit against their NFC East rival to keep their own postseason hopes alive. The Kansas City defense will face another test against the Dallas offense, which ranks third in yards per game \u2014 while the Chiefs\u2019 offense should have opportunities against the Cowboys\u2019 defense, which ranks 29th in yards allowed per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A nationally-televised matchup on a national holiday, the game should draw one of the season\u2019s largest television audiences, as both teams fight to remain in the playoff race after a short week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday \u2014 Thanksgiving Day \u2014 the Kansas City Chiefs (6-5) will go on the road to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,32882,32883],"class_list":["post-62577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-analysis","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-odds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}