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Entering the season, a primetime duel between the and seemed like football nirvana. and in the same game? vs. ? and attacking the game's best offensive line? This was supposed to be a matchup between two legit contenders in the NFC. A lot can change in two weeks, though, especially in the NFL. The Cardinals do not appear to  Darwin Thompson Jersey be a contender. Johnson is with a wrist injury. looks like a corpse. As a result, impact has been minimized. And the Cardinals are 1-1 after barely beating the Andrew Luck-le s in overtime last week.Meanwhile, the Cowboys are 1-1 after a beatdown in Denver, where they fell to the by 25 points. After, Jason Garrett admitted that in which he totaled fewer than 10 rushing yards. Garrett also for a performance that featured 20 incompletions, 4.8 yards per attempt, and two picks. And their already weak secondary -- now dealing with multiple injuries -- is more depleted than Cersei Lannister's morality bar.So yeah, both teams could desperately use a win in Week 3 of "Monday Night Football."   This isn't the matchup we expected a couple weeks ago, but it's the matchup we're getting. That's better news for the Cowboys, who shouldn't be ashamed of their outing in Denver. The Cowboys -- not the Cardinals -- are still the team that still looks like it has a chance to head toward the postseason. The Cowboys are the team I'm taking in this game, mainly because they have the better quarterback.The prediction:Cowboys 24, Cardinals 21 How to watch, stream When: Monday at 8:30 p.m. ET Where: University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Arizona TV: ESPN Streaming:   The Cardinals' rough start Besides the difference in quarterback play, which we'll get to a bit later, the main reason I'm taking the Cowboys is due to the current overall state of the Cardinals: not good. In Week 1, they led the 17-9 late in the third quarter. They let that lead completely evaporate, giving up 26 unanswered before scoring a late-garbage time touchdown. Losing to the Lions inside their dome isn't the worst thing to happen to a football team, but barely beating the Andrew Luck-le s Colts in overtime is an alarming sign. To force overtime against the Colts, who might be the second worst team in football behind the , the Cardinals needed to score 10 unanswered in the fourth quarter. The Cardinals aren't who we thought they were. In our season predictions, Will Brinson even picked them to win the Super Bowl Tony Gonzalez Jersey ! They aren't a Super Bowl team. Based off the way they're playing, they're not even a playoff team.   One reason for that? They're mi sing their best player. No replacing David Johnson If you play Fantasy Football, chances are was the hottest player on the waiver wire after Johnson's Week 1 injury. Williams disappointed in Week 2, picking up 22 yards on nine carries. was better, totaling 44 yards on 11 carries. Still, neither player adequately replaced Johnson -- and with good reason. Johnson is irreplaceable. He's the best all-around running back in the game. Last year, he led the league in yards from scrimmage with 2,118. Pro Football Focus named Johnson -- a running back -- . He if the Cardinals didn't finish below .500. So it's understandable then why the Cardinals are struggling on offense without him. They're averaging 19.5 points per game so far. Last year, they averaged 26.1 points per game.   I would say that the Cardinals' running backs could thrive on Monday night against a Cowboys defense that gouged for 178 rushing yards last week, but then again, the Cardinals' running backs failed to produce against a horrific Colts defense. The point being, the Cardinals' running game without Johnson isn't any good. And I wouldn't favor them in this matchup -- and not many others. I think it'll be the Cowboys, not the Cardinals, who bounce back in this area. Not because the Cowboys boast a strong run defense -- they don't -- but because the Cardinals don't own a good ground game. Can Ezekiel Elliott get back on track? Ezekiel Elliott will bounce back. His outing against the Broncos -- eight yards on nine carries -- is an anomaly.  Demarcus Robinson Jersey In 18 career games (including the postseason), he's failed to hit 50 yards just once, with last Sunday being that instance. Even great players experience bad games, and a lot of Elliott's struggles had to do with game script, considering the Cowboys trailed the entire game and Prescott threw it 50 times.   Don't expect Elliott to struggle again. The Cardinals aren't a great football team, so it seems unlikely the Cowboys will be put in another gigantic hole. Even though the Cardinals are allowing just 2.8 yards per carry this season, the Cowboys' offensive line holds the advantage in this game -- as they do almost every weeks. The Cardinals' run defense looks so dominant this year in part because they played the Lions (a team that's usually allergic to running) and the Colts (ditto). Ameer Abdullah 17 carries 86 yds vs NYG. Last time the Lions had a running back rush over 100+ yards in single game. (2013 Reggie Bush)  Mike Jurecki (@mikejurecki) Frank Gore with 100 rushing Kansas City Chiefs Jersey  yards today, just the second time that's happened for in last 4 years. Zak Keefer (@zkeefer) The Cowboys are not those teams. Elliott has hit 100 yards in 50 percent of his NFL games. Expect him to get back on track in a close game in which the Cowboys can lean on him. It's not as if the Cardinals can simply copy the Broncos' blueprint. Just ask Bruce Arians:    Arizona coach Bruce Arians on if Denver provided a blueprint for shutting down the Cowboys last week: "If you can borrow Denver's players." Brandon George (@DMN_George)   Carson Palmer on the declineIt's not just about the Cardinals' stagnant ground game. It's also about Palmer, 37, and his inability to fight off old age. Palmer teased us at the end of last season, when he started showing signs of life after a disastrous start to the season, but ultimately, he's back to playing subpar football. Through two games, Palmer's completing 54.8 percent of his pa ses (a career low), averaging 7.2 yards per attempt, throwing a touchdown on 2.4 percent of his pa ses (almost a career low), and to sing an interception on 4.8 percent of his pa ses (almost a career high). His pa ser rating? 65.6, which would be a career low.  Dustin Colquitt Jersey And it's not as if Palmer's bad numbers are due to the level of competition. He's played the Lions and Colts. A year ago, the Lions' and Colts' defenses This is not aberration. In Palmer's last 17 games (dating back to Week 1 of last year), he has an 84.5 pa ser rating.    The health of the Cowboys' secondary With that being said, keep an eye on the status of the Cowboys' secondary, because it's banged up. At one point during the game against the Broncos, the Cowboys were down to two healthy cornerbacks, which definitely played a role in their inability to stop a Trevor Siemian-led team.  (hamstring) won't play. Neither will N