White Riley Dixon Jerseys , 4:25 p.m. ET, FoxOPENING LINE — Cowboys by 6RECORD VS. SPREAD — Giants 8-7-1; Cowboys 8-6-2SERIES RECORD — Cowboys lead 66-46-2LAST MEETING — Cowboys 36, Giants 35, Dec. 30, 2018AP PRO32 RANKING — Giants No. 26; Cowboys No. 9 (tie)GIANTS OFFENSE — OVERALL (17), RUSH (24), PASS (11)GIANTS DEFENSE — OVERALL (24), RUSH (20), PASS (23)COWBOYS OFFENSE — OVERALL (22), RUSH (10), PASS (23)COWBOYS DEFENSE — OVERALL (7), RUSH (5), PASS (13)STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES — NFC East rivals opening season against each other for sixth time in eight seasons. … Series has been streaky recently, with Cowboys winning past four after Giants took three straight following five-win Dallas run. … Giants QB Eli Manning and Cowboys TE Jason Witten set to establish club records with 16th seasons. Witten came out of retirement following one year in broadcasting. … Manning returns to home of Cowboys 10 years after winning first regular-season game played there, supposedly autographing wall in visitor’s locker room with score (33-31), noting it was first game. He enters with 87-87 record against NFC teams. … RB Saquon Barkley finished as NFL Offensive Rookie of Year season with 109 yards rushing against Cowboys Riley Dixon Jerseys 2019 , fifth 100-yard game in last seven of season. Barkley led NFL with 2,028 yards from scrimmage. Joined Eric Dickerson (1983), Edgerrin James (1999) as only rookies to surpass 2,000 yards. … K Aldrick Rosas finished 2018 with 19 straight made FGs, second-longest streak in NFL. … Alec Ogletree led all NFL LBs with five interceptions last season, including two returned for TDs. … Since entering NFL in 2012, CB Janoris Jenkins tied for league lead with seven INT returns for touchdowns. … Cowboys RB Ezekiel Elliott expected to play four days after signing $90 million, six-year contract extension after holding out entire preseason with two years left on rookie deal. Fifth player since 1970 merger with two rushing titles in first three seasons (league-leading 1,434 yards last year). Second to Barkley in yards from scrimmage with 2,001. … Dak Prescott became first QB in NFL history with at least 20 TDs passing, at least five TDs rushing each of first three seasons. His 10 TDs passing vs. Giants are most against any opponent. … Cowboys have won NFC East twice in three years with Prescott, Elliott. … WR Amari Cooper needs 92 yards receiving to reach 4,000 for career in fifth season. … Witten’s 154 catches against Giants are most by any player vs. NY. … DE DeMarcus Lawrence led team with 10½ sacks. First Dallas pass rusher with at least 10 sacks in consecutive seasons since last of five straight years from DeMarcus Ware in 2011. … LB Leighton Vander Esch set club rookie record with 176 tackles, according to coaches’ tally. … Fantasy tip: Most fantasy leagues probably had somebody drafting Elliott high despite the holdout, so those players shouldn’t hesitate to start him despite two-time Pro Bowler missing all of camp. The Vikings are stuck with quarterback Kirk Cousins through 2020. And that fact apparently kept them from signing CFL quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell.Via 3downnation.com, Mitchell recently said that he worked out last December for the Vikings, after being named the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player. Coach Mike Zimmer White Alec Ogletree Jerseys , according to Mitchell, was present.After the workout, an unnamed team official met with Mitchell and asked how he could help the Vikings win.“I was like, ‘Well, for one, I’ve never been anywhere in football and not won a championship as a starter,'” Mitchell said. “‘High school, DI, DI-AA, now here in the CFL. Everywhere I’ve ever been I’ve won a championship within the first three years I’ve been there. I can help you do that. I’m going to come in here, I’m going to take Kirk’s job.'”That wasn’t what the Vikings wanted to hear, according to Mitchell.“He was like, ‘Oh, no, no, n-n-n-no, we don’t want you to take Kirk’s job. We want you to come in here Alec Ogletree Jerseys 2019 , help him with his eyes, tell him what you see, do everything you can to make him a better quarterback. But we need a good quarterback room, we don’t want you to cause controversy. At that moment I was like, ‘Well, I’m not signing with the Minnesota Vikings.’“I don’t understand that thought process. All that tells me is there’s a culture in that building right now that, ‘Hey, your job is secure because of the money we paid you. Don’t worry about anything you do or the decisions you make or anything the media says, just do what we tell you to do and you’re going to be fine.’ It’s mind-blowing. You don’t even want a guy that’s pushing him or creating competition.”While Mitchell’s version of the events may indeed be accurate, the Vikings wouldn’t be the only team that wants a backup quarterback who knows his place. There’s a way to push the starter and to create competition without having a clear and open effort by the backup to supplant the guy who holds the job.Regardless of the manner in which Mitchell interpreted the message from the Vikings, the contract given to Cousins says it all. Three years, $84 million, fully guaranteed. It’s his job, unless and until the Vikings decide that they’ve had enough, and that they’re willing to pay all or part of his $29.5 million salary in 2020 for him to go away.Depending on what happens over the course of the next 12 games, that could be what happens.