While I am afraid it could be a big comeback for Tua and a blowout Miami win, I think the Cardinals learn from past games after a good performance and maintain the focus. They run the ball well and do enough defensively to keep the Dolphins from looking like last season. They get another late game-winning field goal from Chad Ryland for a Cardinals win.
Cardinals 23, Dolphins 20
Howard Balzer
For the third time this season, the Cardinals are hoping to win a second consecutive game. However, let’s tap the breaks on the oft-repeated stat that they haven’t won two straight since the 2021 season as if that’s a long, long time. It’s only two seasons, plus seven games of this one in which they’ve won 11 total games. That’s the issue. Having said that, a win in 82-degree south Florida with relatively low humidity but windy would get the Cardinals to .500. To do that, it will take another gutsy defensive effort with the return of quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and running back James Conner doing his thing for the second game in a row.
Cardinals 23, Dolphins 17
