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This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio.

Back at it again in the Monday night football game,

the Dallas Cowboys who are the one team that has been invincible when it comes to television ratings,

and no matter what, no matter what kind of deep, dark place the NFL finds it in politically,

the Dallas Cowboys have been gold.

They have been absolute gold.

The Cardinals, not so much.

The Cardinals, not so much.

And so they squared off head-to-head, mono-a-mono.

If you're an old fart, old division rivals, going at it, and the Dallas

Cowboys in the first quarter did not look so good. Did not look so good.

It was shocked that it was only a seven-point game at the end of the first quarter, but in the end,

the Cowboys able to out muscle the Arizona Cardinals, and they get a 28 to 17 win behind a combination of things.

Now, Dak Prescott's getting all the credit because the quarterback gets all the glory.

And that's the way that it works.

The quarterback gets all the glory.

But overall, if you were to break down the Cowboys performance, it looked like the defense

wasn't going to be able to stop Carson Palmer in the first half

early in the game.

And then as the game progressed, they made some adjustments.

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