Ezekiel Elliott Takes Blame for Cowboys’ Loss to Cardinals After 2 Fumbles
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Dallas Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott held himself responsible after his two lost fumbles in the indispensable half proved pivotal in his team’s 38-10 defeat to the Arizona Cardinals on Monday evening.
“Or now not it’s now not acceptable, and or now not it’s one thing I gotta resolve out,” Elliott knowledgeable journalists after the game. “I fabricate now not know. I have to resolve one thing out.”
The three-time First fee Bowler added that the loss is “on me.”
The Cardinals punted on their first three possessions sooner than Elliott’s fumble relate them up on their accept as true with 46-yard line. Kyler Murray lastly hit Christian Kirk for a six-yard touchdown pass to wait on give Arizona a 7-0 lead.
Two plays later, Elliott coughed it up again, allowing the Cardinals to relate up on the Dallas 27-yard line. Kenyan Drake punched it in from one yard out to wait on double Arizona’s advantage.
Falling in the succor of by double digits become one thing the Cowboys did not have to manufacture with Andy Dalton filling in for an injured Dak Prescott at quarterback. This become Dalton’s first birth, and he threw 54 passes, two fewer than his occupation high, because Dallas wanted like a flash ratings to in discovering succor into the game.
Elliott didn’t blame Prescott’s absence for the and reiterated how he “gave the ball away and gave [the Cardinals] the total momentum they have to shuffle engage off.
The Cowboys have many issues to be troubled about amid their 2-4 birth, and Elliott’s fumble complications are on that checklist.
After Monday evening, his 5 fumbles are essentially the most in the NFL and three better than the next closest running succor. He has by no methodology executed a season with better than six fumbles, so he’s in serious disaster of surroundings the cross form of non-public high in 2020.
With Prescott out, the Cowboys have to have self perception in the running succor whose $15 million moderate wage is tied for 2nd-absolute top at the residing. Correct now, Dallas’ religion in Elliott would perhaps presumably be wavering a bit.