Dallas Cowboys<\/a> 27-17 on Monday night. Brissett made his third consecutive start after the week began with expectations of Murray returning coming off the team\u2019s open week.<\/p>\nInstead, the Cardinals pivoted to Brissett, with Gannon saying Murray wasn\u2019t quite ready. Arizona (3-5) won for just the second time in the past 18 games when Murray didn\u2019t take at least five snaps or sat out entirely. \u201cNothing\u2019s changed,\u201d Gannon said both times he was asked if Brissett had done enough to become the starter.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys (3-5-1) couldn\u2019t build on the momentum of Sam Williams\u2019 blocked punt that was recovered in the end zone by Marshawn Kneeland, giving up long touchdown drives on Arizona\u2019s next two possessions on either side of halftime to fall behind 24-7. Marvin Harrison had a career-high seven catches for 96 yards, including a four-yarder for the game\u2019s first touchdown. Tight end Trey McBride had a 12-yard TD grab.<\/p>\n
After their punt block and recovery for a score, the Cowboys gave up an average of 10.8 yards on the next 15 Arizona plays, including consecutive 16-yard passes right after the Dallas TD and Michael Wilson\u2019s 50-yard catch and run on the second play after halftime.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys easily reached the Arizona 7 with a first down on the game\u2019s first possession, but came away with nothing when Dak Prescott was sacked on fourth down by Josh Sweat, who had two of the five sacks on the Dallas quarterback. Calais Campbell also had two in his 250th career regular-season game.<\/p>\n
Dallas, which lost consecutive games for the first time under first-year coach Brian Schottenheimer, totalled just three points on its first three drives inside the Arizona 25, leading to the 17-point deficit in the fourth quarter. The Cowboys could have closed to within 14 with a field goal on the first play of the fourth quarter, but Prescott threw incomplete to CeeDee Lamb on fourth-and-3. Dallas was 0 for 3 on fourth down.<\/p>\n
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Jacoby Brissett throws a pass in the first half. Photograph: Julio Cortez\/AP<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were going to be aggressive all game,\u201d Schottenheimer said. \u201cThat was part of the deal. If I like the call, I\u2019m going to go. I trust our offense. But we didn\u2019t make the plays tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cardinals lost Brissett\u2019s first two starts, but not because the 32-year-old veteran was ineffective. He was solid again, going 21 of 31 for 261 yards without an interception, giving him 860 yards, six touchdowns and one pick in three games without Murray.<\/p>\n
Murray \u2013 the No 1 overall pick in 2019 \u2013 is 9-0 at AT&T Stadium, with state championships as a high school quarterback, two Big 12 titles with Oklahoma and a pair of victories over the Cowboys. Well, Brissett is now 1-0 as a starter against Dallas.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t get into that stuff, man,\u201d Brissett said when asked if he had done enough to replace Murray. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to go out here and win games and be a good teammate. And do the best I can when I get my opportunities. That\u2019s all I can ask for.\u201d<\/p>\n
The last hope for the Cowboys ended with their second lost fumble. Javonte Williams had the ball ripped out as he was going down on a short catch with less than five minutes to go. Prescott had just one touchdown pass a week after having none as one of the league\u2019s best offenses was sluggish again. The scoring toss was a 5-yarder in the fourth quarter for Ryan Flournoy\u2019s first career TD.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to figure out how we need to improve in all phases of the game,\u201d said Prescott, who was 24 of 39 for 250 yards with a late interception on a desperation fourth-and-28 throw. \u201cSpecial teams did a hell of a job getting us a touchdown, and that was the only spark I think in the game, especially in the first half.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cardinals started the season 2-0 before losing five in a row by a total of 13 points. Gannon\u2019s first win as a head coach was against the Cowboys two years ago \u2013 part of a 1-8 start.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking at my watch, and I don\u2019t remember the last time we won,\u201d Gannon said. \u201cIt falls on me. At the bye, I was sitting in the shower, thinking about, \u2018How did I let this happen?\u2019 Everybody in there takes that attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacoby Brissett had a stock answer ready for the question of whether the Arizona quarterback has done enough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-260619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}