DETROIT (2-7) At DALLAS (2-7)
Sunday, 1 p.m., FOX
OPENING LINE – Cowboys by 7
RECORD VS. SPREAD – Detroit 7-1-1; Dallas 2-7
SERIES RECORD – Cowboys lead 12-10
LAST MEETING – Cowboys beat Lions 28-27, Dec. 9, 2007
LAST WEEK – Lions lost to Bills 14-12; Cowboys beat Giants 33-20
LIONS OFFENSE – OVERALL (19), RUSH (30), PASS (7)
LIONS DEFENSE – OVERALL (23), RUSH (23), PASS (21)
COWBOYS OFFENSE – OVERALL (9) RUSH (31), PASS (4)
COWBOYS DEFENSE – OVERALL (21), RUSH (26), PASS (17)
STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES – Dallas and Detroit have identical 2-7 records, with differences. Cowboys winless at home, Lions winless on road. Detroit has scored 21 more points than Dallas, and given up 50 less. … Lions have lost 25 consecutive road games since October 2007. One of most recent road wins came in last trip to play Cowboys on Dec. 31, 2006, when current Cowboys Jon Kitna and Roy Williams were playing for Detroit. Kitna threw for 306 yards and four TDs – two scores were to Williams (six catches for 104 yards). … Detroit starting right guard Stephen Peterman in fifth season with Lions after being drafted by Dallas and playing rookie season for Cowboys in 2005. … Lions TE Brandon Pettigrew, almost exactly a year after his rookie season ended prematurely because of knee injury, has 42 catches. That matches Washington’s Chris Cooley for second-most in NFL by a tight end, trailing only Dallas’ Jason Witten’s 46. … Jason Garrett won first game as interim coach of Cowboys. Only two interim coaches since 2000 have won their first two games – Detroit’s Gary Moeller in 2000 and St. Louis’ Jim Haslett in 2008. … Cowboys trying to avoid first five-game home losing streak since losing 14 in row at old Texas Stadium from 1988-89. That included losing all eight home games during 1-15 season in 1989. … Dez Bryant five catches shy of matching Hall of Fame receiver Bob Hayes’ 46 catches as rookie in 1965. Only Dallas rookie with more catches in season was Herschel Walker with 76 in 1986.
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