AT&T Stadium win streak still alive for Cards’ Murray
ARLINGTON, Texas — Maybe Kyler Murray will lose a game on the home field of the Dallas Cowboys one of these days.
It wasn’t going to be on a night when the Arizona Cardinals quarterback watched the star running back of his hometown team have another night of fumble-itis.
Murray accounted for three touchdowns in his first game back home as a pro and Ezekiel Elliott set up the visiting team’s first two TDS with fumbles as the Cardinals beat the Dallas Cowboys 38-10 on Monday night.
The speedy quarterback, who won three high school championships and a Big 12 title at the home of the Cowboys, improved to 7-0 as a starter at AT&T Stadium, throwing for two scores despite a rough start through the air and rushing for 74 yards and a TD.
“That’s not easy when that’s what everyone has been talking about all week,” coach Kliff Kingsbury said. “He’s probably had this one circled on his calendar since it came out. But I thought he handled himself well.”
It was the “Monday Night Football” debut for Murray, a standout in high school football-obsessed Texas while playing in the Dallas suburbs,
and Kingsbury, who also had a happy first trip to his native Texas as an NFL coach.
“It was fun, brought back a lot of memories,” Murray said.
Fired after six seasons at Texas Tech in 2018, Kingsbury was hired by Arizona soon after and has the Cardinals (4-2) tied for second in the tough NFC West. Arizona is above .500 this late in the season for the first time since 2015, its most recent playoff year.
Andy Dalton had the rest of Dallas’ four turnovers with two interceptions in his first start for the Cowboys (2-4) in place of the injured
Dak Prescott, just down the road from where he had a standout career at Texas Christian.