The Dallas Cowboys will play the New Orleans Saints in a big NFL Sunday Night Football game tonight. The Saints are still looking for their first win of the season, but must take down a strong Cowboys team to do so. The game has a scheduled start time of 8.30 p.m. ET and takes place from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The game can be watched on TV on the NBC network or online through live stream via the link below.
The Saints will be desperate to win today in front of their suffering home fans after an opening three weeks of turmoil.
New Orleans started their season off in a poor fashion, falling badly to the Arizona Cardinals 19-31. They must have felt that things would get better in Week 2 as they returned home to take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But another toothless performance saw them fall 19-26. Through the first three quarters of that game they looked like they had forgotten to turn up, and despite rallying in the fourth, coming back from 7-23 down in the final quarter was too much.
Last week they went on the road again and to their credit did fight hard against the Carolina Panthers, but another week and another loss, and now they find themselves at 0-3. To put things into perspective, only three teams in the last 25 years have made the Playoffs after a 0-3 start to the season, so already there is very little chance that the Saints will be around for the postseason. Depressing for St Louis fans that their season is effectively over at the start of October!
The Dallas Cowboys meanwhile come into the game on 2-1, and will be hoping to win to keep a strong grip on the NFC East.
Earlier this week, Thursday Night Football saw the Baltimore Ravens snap their losing run. The Ravens, entering the nationally televised game on 0-3, managed to steal the win in overtime, to defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers 23-20.
The game had looked like the Ravens were in for another painfully close loss. Over the opening three weeks they had lost games by small margins, and often because they had lost concentration for a period earlier in the game, and simply could not get over the line in their fight-backs.
In the second period in their game against the Steelers they looked like they had done the same thing, allowed Pittsburgh to pile on 10 unanswered points. Coming into the fourth quarter 20-14 down it looked like the Ravens were heading for another defeat and would move to 0-4. However, they finally managed to complete their fightback after failing three times already this season.
The Ravens pulled the game back to 20-20 late on to send the game to overtime, and with momentum on their side, they finally got over the line and completed their first win of the season. That result probably damages the Steelers more than it helps the Ravens though, but the game was a perfect way to get Week 4 underway, and now on Sunday there will be 13 more games taking place as the season becomes even clearer as to who will be competing and who will be falling down this year.
The Dallas Cowboys and the New Orleans Saints game has a start time of 8.30 p.m. ET and can be watched on TV on the NBC network or online through NBC Sports Live Extra live stream by clicking here.
