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World News – United States – Elliott drops pair, Cowboys stumble in 38-10 loss to Card

ARLINGTON, Texas - If the Dallas Cowboys are to win without Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott will have to hang on to the ball

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Arizona Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson (21) and linebacker Jordan Hicks, full back, team up to tackle Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, right-forward, after a short win in the second half of an NFL football game in Arlington, TX on Monday, Oct 19, 2020 (AP Photo / Ron Jenkins)

Arizona Cardinals safety Budda Baker (32) strips the ball from Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott (21) in the first half of an NFL football game in Arlington, TX on Monday October 19, 2020 (AP Photo / Michael Ainsworth)

Dallas Cowboys’ Andy Dalton (14) throws a pass in the second half of an NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals in Arlington, TX on Monday Oct 19, 2020 (AP Photo / Michael Ainsworth)

ARLINGTON, Texas – If the Dallas Cowboys are to win without Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott will have to hang on to the ball

Elliott lost two fumbles in the same game for the first time in his career and was briefly benched, Andy Dalton threw two interceptions on his first start to replace injured Prescott, and the Cowboys have never had a chance in a 38-10 loss to Arizona on Monday night

While Dalton’s interceptions added to the club’s worst NFL turnover margin of minus-12, Elliott’s mistakes were the biggest because they staged the first two touchdowns in Arizona and gave the Cowboys (2-4) a deficit of at least two touchdowns for the fifth game in a row

– It’s frustrating to see the pattern here, five of six games this year, â € “ First-year coach Mike McCarthy said

The good news for the Cowboys? They knew they’d be in first place in the sad NFC East no matter what.So what seemed like a critical three-game homestand when Dallas was 1-2 ended in two more losses. and a jump in the division standings

Elliott’s first fumble came after the two-time running champion received a shovel pass from Dalton as the quarterback tried to escape the pressure Elliott stepped onto the pitch but failed to see Budda Baker, who released the ball and Jordan Phillips recovered at Arizona 46

After Christian Kirk scored 6 yards on a throw sweep that counted as an assist, Elliott again escaped two plays later at the Dallas 27 Kenyan Drake’s one-yard run took the score to 14 -0

Elliott has racked up five fumbles in six games (four lost), just a shy of his career high for an entire season from two years ago. He had never lost more than two fumbles in a season before this year, and now has four in 2020

– I don’t know why, – Elliott said I just need to focus I need to do better with this ????

There was more bad news too. Quadruple All-Pro goaltender Zack Martin left in the first period with a concussion, leaving the Cowboys without four of five preseason starters on the offensive line for most of the time. of their first game without Prescott, the 2016 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year who was the NFL’s runaway pass leader before the injury

The two-time running champion was briefly sidelined for the next possession, replaced by Tony Pollard before returning in the final games of a practice that ended in a late Arizona punt

Pollard finished with 10 carries to 12 for Elliott, who had 49 yards Pollard finished with 31 yards Elliott had eight catches, but for just 31 yards

– I think they did the right thing and gave some of these rehearsals to (Pollard), â ???? Elliott said – I have to be a guy this team can lean on, especially right now with so many of our starters not playing This is not acceptable I need to understand that ????

The Cowboys have a high 15-giveaway in the NFL, and the 84 points they’ve allowed on turnovers are the highest in the NFL across six games in at least 2000

– Maybe frankly, maybe we try too hard, or maybe we overcoach it, – McCarthy said – We played uphill every game We didn’t get into a groove or a pace and we came out ahead again this yearâ ????

While the offense didn’t help a defense that has struggled all season, this group passed out again after their best start Dallas gave up Kyler Murray’s 80-yard touchdown to Kirk, and Drake broke free for a 69-yard rush with the game going out of control in the final two minutes

The Cowboys allowed 218 points, the most in six games since the 1961 Raiders gave up 228 as an AFL team The last NFL team to give up more was Washington in 1954 with 223 points

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Dalton, who won 70 games in nine years as a starter at Cincinnati before signing a one-year contract to be Prescott’s replacement when the Bengals drafted Joe Burrow No 1 overall, was 34 out of 54,266 yards with a meaningless late touchdown

– This is one of those things where I’ll always be my worst critic, – Dalton said Everyone has to do the same, look at themselves and what can I do to make me a better player to help us to win these matches and give us a chanceâ ????