BY ADAM GREENE<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You almost have to feel sorry for Monday Night Football at this point. For years, the NFL had saddled its former premier prime time football contest with some of the worst match ups of the week. This year, the league made an honest attempt to fix that, putting worthwhile contests on Monday. Only fate stepped in and continues to ruin it. Such is the case as the Arizona Cardinals travel to Arlington, Texas to take on the Dak Prescott-less Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ARIZONA CARDINALS AT DALLAS COWBOYS (-1, O\/U: 55)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Location:<\/strong> AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kickoff:<\/strong> Oct. 19, 8:15 p.m. EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n Broadcast:<\/strong> ESPN<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For those that aren\u2019t students of NFL history, you might be surprised that this is the 90th<\/sup> meeting between the Cowboys and Cardinals, with Dallas holding a commanding 56-32-1 lead in the all time series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the Cowboys have always played in \u201cDallas\u201d (or, you know, close by), the Cardinals have been in three different cities since their inception in 1920. They began as the Chicago Cardinals from 1920-1959, then moved to St. Louis from 1960-1987. They packed up and moved to Arizona in 1988 and have been there ever since, but remained in the NFC East with the Cowboys until 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ARIZONA<\/strong> CARDINALS (3-2)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n After opening the season 2-0 and getting everyone\u2019s attention, the Cardinals dropped their next two games and were promptly forgotten again. A 30-10 win over the New York Jets last week got them back in the win column, but every team can beat the Jets so it didn\u2019t do much to prove Arizona had put its problems behind them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kyler Murray completed 27 of 37 for 380 yards, a touchdown and an interception in the win. The defense held the Jets to 285 total yards. What can they take away from it? Not much. It\u2019s the Jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DALLAS<\/strong> COWBOYS (2-3)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Cowboys stopped a two-game skid with a 37-34 victory over the New York Giants last week, but saw any hopes of saving their season go down when quarterback Dak Prescott hit the turf with an \u201cL\u201d shaped ankle. Prescott was having a career year in spite of Dallas\u2019 other problems before he was injured. He had completed 68 percent of his passes for an NFL-leading 1,856 yards and nine touchdowns with four interceptions. He was the only reason they were in any game they played. Now, he\u2019s watching on his couch with a surgically repaired ankle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In steps Andy Dalton to play QB on a team that required otherworldly QB play to even be in games. Can he pull it off? Are we seriously asking this question?<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE PICK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Cowboys have had a week to deal with the fallout from Prescott\u2019s injury. They\u2019re still a team loaded with offensive weapons and have far more defensive talent than seemingly is on display in shootout after shootout. But with Dak out, I don\u2019t see how they can stay competitive. Not with Mike McCarthy in command. Cards 31, Cowboys 24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow our BetOnline Twitter accoun<\/a>t for the latest sports news and betting odds, and stay tuned on the Instagram feed<\/a> for more good information too.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY ADAM GREENE You almost have to feel sorry for Monday Night Football at this point. For years, the NFL…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14007,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14005\/revisions\/14007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}