The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will try to win their fifth game in a row when they take on the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday Night Football. Tampa Bay is coming off a 40-17 win over the Los Angeles Chargers, while Dallas defeated the Carolina Panthers, 30-14, in Week 15. The Buccaneers (8-6), who are 5-2 on the road, are 6-3 against NFC foes this season. The Cowboys (6-8), who are third in the NFC East, are 1-6 on their home field.

Kickoff from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, is set for 8:20 p.m. ET. Tampa Bay is a four-point favorite in the latest Buccaneers vs. Cowboys odds, while the over/under for total points scored is 48. The Buccaneers are -210 money-line favorites (risk $210 to win $100), while the Cowboys are +174 underdogs (risk $100 to win $174).

Before making any Buccaneers vs. Cowboys picks or NFL predictions of your own, you NEED to see which side SportsLine NFL expert Larry Hartstein is on. 

A former lead writer for Covers and The Linemakers, Hartstein combines a vast network of Vegas sources with an analytical approach he honed working for Pro Football Focus. He tied for 52nd place (out of 1,598 entries) in the 2022 Westgate Las Vegas SuperContest, going 53-34-3 ATS. Hartstein's weekly Vegas contest selections form the basis of his NFL best bets column, which is 79-48-2 (62.2%, +25.95 units) since its inception in 2022. He's also an INCREDIBLE 28-11 (+1572) on his last 39 NFL picks involving the Cowboys! Anyone who has followed him is way up.

Now, Hartstein has locked in another confident against-the-spread pick for Buccaneers vs. Cowboys.

We can tell you he's leaning Over the point total, but he also knows a crucial X-factor makes one side of the spread a MUST-BACK! You ABSOLUTELY need to see what it is before locking in any picks of your own.

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