Cardinals Vs. Cowboys: Three Bold Predictions For ‘monday Night Football’ In Week 9

The Cowboys are backmost successful primetime connected Monday night, hosting nan Cardinals astatine AT&T Stadium. 

Dallas sits astatine 3-4-1 connected nan year, and its defensive struggles person plagued nan squad each season. The Cowboys surrendered 44 points successful a lopsided nonaccomplishment to nan Broncos past week, and haven’t held an force nether 22 points erstwhile this year. The discourtesy has been a different story, entering nan week arsenic nan No. 2 scoring portion successful nan NFL astatine 30.2 points per game.

The Cardinals will beryllium without starting backmost Kyler Murray again aft he was ruled retired pinch a ft injury. Jacoby Brissett will return his spot successful what will beryllium his 3rd commencement of nan year. He’s been coagulated successful his erstwhile 2 games, though Arizona is 0–2 successful those contests.

The Cardinals are successful nan midst of a five-game skid aft starting nan twelvemonth 2–0.

So let’s make immoderate bold predictions.

Prescott had a unsmooth crippled past week, but has different been playing astatine an MVP level successful 2025. He has 16 touchdowns and 5 interceptions connected nan year, and has completed 70.3% of his passes, nan champion people of his career. 

The Cardinals person surrendered 234.9 passing yards per game, nan eight-worst successful nan NFL, and person only 12 sacks, nan fifth-fewest successful nan league. Prescott should person plentifulness of clip to run successful nan pocket, which should thief him find his prima tandem of wide receivers, CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens.

I’m expecting Prescott to person a bounce-back week pinch astatine slightest 300 yards and 3 touchdowns, which would beryllium nan 2nd clip this play he’s achieved that line. 

Cowboys’ defense will surrender its fewest points successful a crippled this season

It’s a favorable matchup for nan Cowboys, considering nan abundance of injuries plaguing nan Cardinals. Arizona is down its starting backmost and its apical 2 moving backs, pinch some James Conner and Trey Benson connected IR. In short, this is simply a premier matchup for Dallas’s defense to get backmost connected track.

Brissett has played well, pinch 4 touchdowns and conscionable 1 interception since taking complete for Murray. Brissett, who has nan second-longest mean propulsion clip successful nan NFL, per Next Gen Stats, was sacked six times against nan Packers past week, truthful Dallas will person its chances to get aft him successful nan backfield. 

Arizona’s discourtesy averages 21.9 points per game, but I’m expecting them to autumn short of that. 

With nan Cardinals’ moving backs room depleted by injury, Bam Knight is expected to beryllium nan team’s lead rusher. Against a Cowboys’ tally defense that’s struggled each year, I’m expecting him to move successful a coagulated performance.

Entering Monday’s game, Knight has only rushed 10 aliases much times successful 7 games. His profession precocious successful rushing yards is 90, which he group successful 2022 pinch nan Jets. I’m expecting him to scope nan 100-yard people for nan first clip successful his career. 

He was effective against nan Packers past week, rushing 14 times for 57 yards, but he grounded to scope nan adjacent level of nan defense, ne'er going for much than 9 yards. There’s a bully chance that Knight will beryllium capable to find a spread and break into Dallas’s secondary.

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