The Cowboys need a reset in the worst way after falling to 3-5 with a brutal Week 8 loss to the Arizona Cardinals. Dallas blew the lead, lost in overtime, and now has to answer quickly after Brian Schottenheimer remained the head coach. On paper, Week 9 looks like the kind of matchup a team in that spot should welcome: the Indianapolis Colts are 2-6 and have already started moving off key pieces.
Von Miller isn’t treating it like a soft landing.
Todd Archer of ESPN reported that Miller called the Colts a “scary” opponent for Dallas, pointing to a group of players who are “fighting for their lives” right now. Miller explained it this way: “Those guys are fighting for their lives as well,” Miller said.
“They’re trying to find their identity, too. And those teams are always scary whenever you play them because you really don’t know what to expect.”
At first glance, that sounds backwards. The Colts were just hammered 42-7 by the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 8, and the roster has already taken hits with Quenton Nelson and DeForest Buckner traded away. But that’s exactly why Miller sees danger here.
This could be the kind of game where Indianapolis comes out swinging for what may be the last time this group is together before the trade deadline changes everything. Jonathan Taylor, Josh Downs, Daniel Jones, and Tyler Warren could all be in line for a big afternoon against a Dallas defense that has struggled this season. And with players trying to keep their jobs or make themselves attractive to a contender, the Colts have plenty of incentive to show up with urgency.
There’s also the other side of it, of course. If the looming sell-off hangs over the locker room the wrong way, Indianapolis could just as easily come out flat and put together another ugly performance. That volatility is what makes the matchup tricky.
So while Miller’s warning about the Colts might sound strange at first, the logic is pretty clear: Dallas could be walking into a game against a team that either has nothing left to lose or nothing left to hold together. That’s what makes it feel like a trap game.
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