Cowboys Beat Colts 27-23 as Bengals Top Falcons in Madrid in NFL Week 9

The Dallas Cowboys beat the Indianapolis Colts 27-23 on Sunday, November 8, in Week 9 of the NFL season, handing Indianapolis its fifth straight loss. The win lifted Dallas to 4-5 and kept it within reach of the New York Giants (5-2-1) in the NFC East. Before kickoff at Lucas Oil Stadium, the Colts were 2-6 and the Cowboys 3-5. Dallas was scoring 27.4 points per game but allowing 26.6, and quarterback Dak Prescott had 2,046 yards, 14 touchdowns and five interceptions. Earlier Sunday in Madrid, the Cincinnati Bengals beat the Atlanta Falcons 34-17 at Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabéu stadium. Joe Burrow completed 24 of 29 passes for 271 yards and three touchdowns and ran for another score. Ja'Marr Chase had 10 catches for 155 yards and a touchdown, and Tee Higgins caught two touchdowns. Cincinnati is 6-2 and has scored 30 or more points in four straight games for the first time since 1997. Atlanta fell to 3-6.

The Guardian, the left-leaning outlet, runs a roundup whose headline mentions a late Cowboys comeback over the Colts but whose text leads with the Bengals in Madrid. It gives Burrow's and Chase's stat lines, the bullfighting-style celebration and Atlanta's struggles. Fox News, on the right, ran a pregame guide with channel, time and streaming details plus matchup numbers on Prescott, Dallas's defense and the Colts' pass rush, and no result. Both treat the Colts' skid and Dallas's mediocre record as the backdrop. The alternative outlets differ: Yahoo Sports focuses on the good, bad and ugly of Indianapolis's fifth straight loss, and Awful Announcing covers former coach Antonio Pierce's harsh criticism of the Cowboys on a TV segment.