of specifically phrase, the question of what's going on
with Arizona. A couple of losses in a row.
They go to Detroit, you know, plausibly the worst team in
the league and it wasn't even close 3212 loss. Before we get into
that. Let's take a listen to Dan Campbell and what he had to
say after the game.
We said we needed to do to that team.
They did do everything
ran all over. Made. It look easy. Right? What's your read
to mean a couple of days later? Actually, three days later.
Yeah, on how they won that game. Yeah. I mean, first off.
This isn't one of those games where I go.
Well, the Cardinals were clearly better. They just
messed it up, right? I mean, listen, we've had a lot of
games like that, where I go. Okay, let's just calm down
everybody like this. Team
still better. They messed up. It's the NFL, you mess up three
times. You're going to lose this. Wasn't that it wasn't. It
cable goes back a little to what I thought. Was on Monday.
They beat them flat out. There's no like, oh man,
the Cardinals. Did this wrong. No,
they were out hit. They were out coach. They were out of
executed whatever you want to say there. They did it all.
Defense did some cool things that really gave Cardinals some
issues.
We're going to break that down
offensive, ly, you know, you have ran the ball.
Had some quick passes that got golf the ball out of his hands
because had the Cardinals do a lot of crazy blitzes and things
they had that you know, but then because of the running,
The ball. They had a few good play-action passes,
you know
involved in that too. And that's that was the game. But
I think the biggest thing of the game was,
you know one listen I did not expect Jared Goff to go 21 of
26 and three touchdowns. I did not, I did not think they
would. Also if they did that, be able to couple a hundred
yard rusher with it,
you know, that all of that. I mean it was just
it was a good old-fashioned but whooping. Yeah. Would just
the timing of a,
you know, like
The oh shit. Play that put them up 10. Nothing. Like hey, we
moved the ball. They're moving the ball running short paths.
Run, run short pass. Now. Let's go for the kill play-action
pass.
Boom, touchdown, you know 37 yarder
amun-re same brown, but
I mean, man, they had a 93-yard drive for a touchdown followed
up by a 97 yards for a touchdown. Yeah, you know,
there were some stupid penalties by the Cardinals, but
that wasn't luck. They move the ball on this football team.
Yeah,
big time. Got a couple examples to show it and one other thing
to keep in mind Cardinals came in 7 and 0. On the road before,
going to Detroit, right? So, just adding to the level of
surprise there there. We see 7 and 0 before they go to
the Lions and lose points a game. They were right at
33. They only put up 12
just way off. What they were used to doing when they left.
What they're used to doing were used to seeing when they leave
Arizona. So, with that background, let's take a look
at what Kyler Murray did
or didn't do here. This is second quarter,
eight and a half minutes left. It's already a 10 nothing like
yeah, you know. Again it goes into a little bit of Game Plan.
Like defensive calling by the by the Detroit Lions and
obviously having a good feel for what a team does or like,
like
how they want to attack you and maybe also knowing, wait,
what's their plan really? Do they really have a plan against
some of these looks and the things they're going to do, you
know again like this. This was the defense of the day here
that gave
the Cardinals issues. It was the Cardinals just to sum it
up. Really early in the game. They couldn't get yards unless
they ran the ball or through a They couldn't do anything else.
Anything in the drop back pass game.
Detroit was all over it, whether they exposed
protection, or they knew where the ball was going to be thrown
and they had people there. Here's a little bit of both.
Now. Here's both again.
Like what they really did in my this is Miami. This is they did
the dolphin stuff. We've broken down
like a lot of these looks right here
and it's man, man.
Man, right man, man. All right, it looks like it. Might be
an all-out.
Out Blitz, right? It's going to be something like that.
All right, and as you see,
I don't even think it's man.
I don't really know what to tell you. This coverage is
okay, fusions. It's confusion. It's game plan specific to
wait. We don't even give a shit about a safety. In the middle
of the field.
We don't think one.
They're going to be able to figure out how to pick up,
which is ultimately going to be a four man Rush here started
out as six, not only an alignment, but those other two
who eventually dropped They came right away. Is that right?
Right. So they did the thing. We know we've broken this down
a lot.
Oops. Sorry. I don't know why that button always does that. But
yeah, I mean, you see. They're
all right, they go. There's the to and now you got to dropping
out, right? You got drop out, you got to drop out. All right,
we got to four-man rush.
They obviously this is a theme of the day,
have a good feel for what they were going to do offense of lie,
whenever they lined up in this
and they knew, okay, they're going to slide the whole line. This
Way, all right. Well, that's great. But that's guys going to
be free then nobody's in a bokken and that's what happens
here. So, now you have this
and a defense where they called, where they basically said,
no safety in the middle of the field and we're going to just
have a bunch of people in the middle of the field because
you're the Cardinals and like the bucks, right?
It may be more than even the Bucks.
They love to throw it across. There's over the middle to
and this is something you'll see throughout the day.
Again. Look at that mean,
this play is called the stop exactly what's being.
Called here. Look, it's a Crosser and Crosser and a half
krauser who's going to button hook over the middle. And you
could see here. It's one, it's two, it's three. It's for its
five. They got Five Guys in this general area and you're
going to see more places we go forward here
for all these crossers that you're not going to feel
comfortable about. Right. So there we go. They got that.
He's thinking like wait I get this type of Blitz.
I should be able to just hit one of these crossers real
quick and then splits. Well, not of nobody block somebody.
So, he's totally free.
There's nothing that quick let alone there in the areas of,
you're going to throw hot to wear like this picture right
here. Like where do you want them to throw it? This guy's
going up, feel not looking these two aren't looking. And
there's guys here
you can throw it anywhere.
They almost disregard this guy
like as you'll see. Yeah, but it doesn't really matter because
the confusion with the protection and how to stop it
and then they took away the quick throws off of that
and that ends. Zup, being a sack. There's a lot of stuff.
You can spend 20 minutes. Trying to figure out one of
the back end but didn't matter because the deception up front
one,
but before any of that came into play, it's like, it's like
Blitz change cover zero.
Yeah. I don't even know what to really call. It's not really
a blitz. It's like a cover Zero Zone here. I mean, that's
really what it is.
They're all playing
eyes in the backfield. Look for crossers. They're going to
throw something just passed the first down line. Here. So let's
make sure
we're there. They had to have had a beat on. This is what
they do.
This is they're going to try to just throw a just past
the crowd, the first down marker to get it and they had people
there. And obviously the protection was an issue, too.
And this was consistent, really all the way, especially through
the first three quarters of the football game. Will have one
more play to
look at. But just one thought, when I watch Arizona here and
I was thinking about him driving in here, you look around their
division with the Rams offensive, ly, the Niners
offense will be, you can Picture them recently, clicking
along awfully. Well on offense.
When was the last time you had two games in a row? And I know
kind of has been injured. But when was the last time you had
a couple three games in a row, where the Cardinals offense was
like? Yeah.
That's what we've come to know.
You're right. It's been a while. It's been expelled from
Lori's injury. Sure. It has. It's definitely it's just
trouble this time here. No doubt. We saw this a little
last year,
you know, they kind of fell off at the end of the year. Yeah.
It August teams teams have got a
Good beat on their passing game. Now where they're
a little dangerous. As like what we talked about all year. They
do have a running game and I really good screen game that
keeps you off their their passing game to a degree.
Yeah, but I do think
at a specifically in this game. It really shows that.
Yeah, there's too many repeat calls
and there was obviously a feel of we know what's coming here
in this situation.
Or if we apply this defense and get this blitz.
We know what you're going to look for.
We're going to have people there waiting for it. Right?
There was a lot of that going on through this game. Let's say
the second quarter here, late in the second quarter still 10
nothing. And now, I think is this third?
Third and goal. Yeah,
where we Goin? Yeah. Second down.
Pardon. Pardon me. Second quarter.
I was looking at the Brady stuff. It's 10. Nothing
in its third and goal on the line 3. Yeah. I mean, you know
again, this is big part of the game right here. That's 10.
Nothing. Third and goal.
They're going to end up with 0 points on this
on this drive and then they lions are going to go 97
For a touchdown and make the game 17. Nothing.
This is a huge turning point of the game.
Now again, here is a similar. Look Paul. Then you see it
here. It's three receivers here. There's one here and
the back. Chase Edmunds, set off here. Six Defenders on
the line. Thank God. There's a line. And then all these guys
in the back end, just sitting here.
This is all everybody within
nobody's deeper than one yard in the end zone,
1 yard. Nobody's deeper than that.
I mean, I don't know if they don't have a feel for what's
coming then. That I'm crazy. But look what it is again,
Paul.
Look at the middle of the field.
Guess what's coming?
Crossers krauser krauser krauser krauser krauser krauser
krauser and Detroit's playing a defense where they're like,
we're not even going to
guard you. We're going to have five people here and just
rental wait for the crossers to come to us.
Like it doesn't matter. We don't need to run with you. We
know where you're going to be. I mean, look, it's there. It's
there. He's running that way. They're going to try to get
this on the back line, right?
But none of it's there.
And of course, like it's a weird look, so Kyler Murray's
like wake coach didn't teach me to read this against this look.
And they only got five out in. Detroit is dropping seven,
right? Dropping seven, do the math. Here's your four man
rush,
you know, so, here you go and like, let's still frame it. All
right. So, here's Kyler at the top of his drop
in. Okay? Three guys. Absolutely. No
chance of getting the
football. None guy in the flat. No chance. You could throw to
him
this guy right here and believe that's AJ Green on this.
Play. I mean, all right, right. Now he's not making a break.
You can't throw it to him.
Kyler makes the mistake here of the pockets. Not bad. I wish
you would step up in the pocket, but then he ends up
running to the right. Okay,
and now it's trouble. There's truly nobody else. There's
truly nobody open.
There's there's nowhere to go here on this at all.
And you can see like, even here
AJ Green, he makes a little shoulder shake and tries to
break this way. It doesn't get the DB. He's there for it, but
they're all over it.
You know, what? I do want to say is like,
yeah, it's the second quarter
and there's two minutes and eight seconds left.
And I've seen this right here.
Like, I'm going to say this, the fourth or fifth time in
the first half, where I've seen it, where it's three crossers, in
the middle of the field. That's great. They're all in the same
area. Yeah, and they're totally covered and they're just
eating up space. There's no, there's, they're not doing
anything. So that's the predictability. I think
a little bit of the play calling and what they're doing there.
They're all over it.
Now. He's under pressure.
He tries to throw a laser in there. They don't get it
incomplete.