INSTANT REACTION: Cardinals Lose In the Most Arizona Cardinals Way Possible

INSTANT REACTION: Cardinals Lose In the Most Arizona Cardinals Way Possible

Of course, that’s how they lost. Of course, after being anemic offensively for three quarters, the Arizona Cardinal offense wakes up. Shyland kicks the ball out of bounds or kicks the ball short of the 20. Seahawks get it at the 40 and the Cardinals lose. What are we doing here? You are Locked On Cardinals, your daily Arizona Cardinals podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. Going to have awesome stuff to talk about after having zero awesome stuff to to talk about. But now a loss is a loss is a loss. And the Cardinals fall to 2 and two after starting the season 2 and 0. With that said, this is much more palatable than what we witnessed for the first three quarters of this game. Instant reaction show. Everybody, thanks for coming in. Thanks for hanging out. Here’s the thing. When the Arizona Cardinal started this game on offense, got a couple first downs. Like, oh, cool. Oh, nice. Cool. Oh, starting to starting to move a little bit. Starting to move a little bit. And then Kyler Murray throws an interception. They get the ball back. to kick a field goal. Marv stops on his route. Um, you know, overall what I was thinking during the entirety of the first three quarters of this game was how can the defensive players look at the offensive guys in the locker room and have any respect for them, for the play on the field. Like it was absolutely brutal. It was absolutely brutal. They could get nothing going. Kh Marvin Harris Jr. looked completely lost. Kyler Murray and Marv were not on the same page. And yet the defense with the herculean effort without Garrett Williams, without Will Johnson were able to keep the Seattle Seahawks offense at bay for the most part. They were on the field a lot. They were unable to really get anything going offensively, but they were in the game. It was insane. It was like, “Okay, here’s the thing. If the Cardinals were at a road game, I could use this Lane GI thing.” Like, Pson’s got to go on the tarmac. Make him fly commercial. Like, what are we doing here? Kyler Murray looked bad. Um, the offense just wasn’t working and continues to not work. And I know the defense is good. I know the Seahawks defense is good. The offensive line wasn’t great. like the the the troubling part for me and I will talk about the good because there was some I’ll talk about that in the in the next you know seven minute segment here like the Seahawks defense I understand is very good. Okay, I understand that the Seahawks offense is good and the defense held him at bay. What the offense did was malpractice in the first three quarters. I was ready just like it seemed like Marvin Kyler never met. Like some reps it’s like, “Oh, cool. pick up football. Oh, I’m I’m Marvin. I’m Kyler. Let’s play together. It’s like, how is that possible with all the reps that are going on? And the defense held what looked to be a very potent offense, especially the last couple weeks at bay. This defense is legit. Even without Garrett Williams and Will Johnson, this defense is big boy, big pants defense. So, I’ll talk about redeeming qualities in in the second segment, but it’s like if the offense showed any sort of heartbeat in the first three quarters, the Cardinals win this game by 10 points. And it’s not like down the stretch, and even the announcer said it, it’s not like down the stretch that Seattle was playing prevent defense, so these touchdowns didn’t count. This offense looked like what you hoped it would be starting in week one in that fourth quarter. Kyler Murray had two massive drives. The Cardinals got a stop on defense. It’s unbelievable what could happen when the offense does their part and the defense can take advantage of it instead of having to be the stop gap between a bad team and a good team. And that’s what we’ve seen from this defense. The defense is the only reason why the Cardinals were in score. And then come on, Chad Roll kicking it short of the 20, them getting extra yardage, Jackson Smith and Jigma makes a great catch down the sideline and the Cardinals lose the way the Cardinals lose. Like I think the I think that it’s real though. This isn’t like minor recency bias where it’s only been a couple hours so it’s not weeks or months or whatever, which is normally what recency bias is is tied to. like you’ve got to feel pretty okay about the offense now kind of because of what we saw in the fourth quarter. It’s not the same. It’s not perfect by any stretch. It’s not great. It’s barely good. But those two drives were big boy drives when you got to have it. Drew Petting’s play calling, especially on that second touchdown with the slip with the slip screen in the slot to to um to Greg Dorch. Anybody that’s watched lockdown Cardinals for the last at least the last year knows that that’s the play that we saw last year, week 17 against the Rams when they were out of playoff contention. I fell in love with that play right away. It’s like why is that not used it when actual football is being played and the Cardinals have have a chance to make the playoffs? We saw it in the biggest moment. Cardinals got a huge chunk play. They went down and scored. They went down and scored again. I think that you can pretty quickly remove the Marv ain’t it conversation with what we saw down the stretch. I know the first he’s a mystery, but what we saw down the stretch, it wasn’t just the touchdown catch. There were a couple other there were a couple other balls that he caught. There were contested footballs against Devon Witherspoon, who was a top five pick a couple years ago out of Illinois. The dude is the real deal. He’s their best corner. And Marv took care of business. So hopefully that will be enough for him to just kind of pivot away from whatever was going on between his ears. With all of that said, the Cardinals are still two and two. If they didn’t take the first three quarters off offensively, irrespective of how good the Seahawks defense is, we’re talking at the Cardinal at three and one with a good chance to go to four and one hosting Tennessee next week. But we’re not. So, we need to discuss a little bit about the good and we’ll tie it in. Um, thanks for hanging out. Reaction show immediately following this, like immediately following this, we doing the Cardinal Squad show with myself, Jal Douglas, and Ben Garcia. We’ll be going live on the same YouTube channel. I’ll get to some of your comments um next segment as well after this quick little break. This episode of Lockdown Cardinals is brought to you by our friends over at Square. Um your favorite neighborhood spots run on Square. You should know what Square is at this point. 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Um, but listen, drop a one in the chat if you feel more energized about the offense by a long shot with how the game ended than when it started. I mean, I think it’s pretty like moving on. That that’s momentum building. Even if the Cardinals lose and the way they lost was gut-wrenching, they shouldn’t have been there to begin with. and the offense was able to wake up and you know actually show some sort of semblance of I don’t know just rational competent thought and I see a lot of yeses a lot of nos too um it’s not great okay it’s not great what we watched Kyler Murray when the lights were the brightest led two scoring drives where they couldn’t even get a first down without laboring early in the game. So, that’s kind of perplexing to me. The defense, three sacks, pass rush, got home more than they had so far this year against a pretty good offensive line. A pretty good offensive line. They’re a little hobbled, but a pretty good offensive line. Uh Jackson Smith and Jigma for the majority of the game, that was the obvious game plan of Nick Rouse and Jonathan Ganon. No, no JS. He had a couple chunk plays. Um, obviously the one that set up the game-winning field goal, but by and large they kept him out of, you know, they kept him out of the game plan, which was good. I think the biggest takeaways from today tonight is one, as we’ve seen since Kyler Murray came back, this offense is either top five or bottom five. Looked top five. The last last uh couple drives, it looked bottom one. the first three quarters. I don’t care how good the Seattle Seahawks defense is. It looked terrible. Isaiah Adams, for those that have watched lockdown Cardinals, I’m ready for Will Hernandez to be back. Aside from a holding call by Paris Johnson Jr., which was questionable, Paris played pretty well on the left side. The right side is a problem. Like, I’m at a point where I’m starting Kelvin Beum at right right tackle over Jonah Williams. Um, this was a comedy of errors for the first three quarters for this team. Defense played well, but the interception when Marv stopped his route, I don’t Marv wouldn’t have got to that ball. That was a badly thrown ball. Marv would not have got to that ball. Um, and then the bobbled pass where Marvin didn’t want to get lit up, which on a human, like everybody in this chat, nobody wants to catch a ball and then run across the middle with a safety ready to take your head off like in rational world. But Marv, you know, bobbled it interception. Um, it’ll be fascinating to see what the the discourse is going to be like for the next 10 days because the Cardinals have an extended time, you know, the run game and I’m seeing stuff about Tre Benson. Um, I’m seeing stuff about, you know, Marv and Kyler and yeah, like this is it. This is it. play calling completely changed the last two drives. And I know and and listen, I know that when it’s a tie game to start the game or when they’re when it’s a one-sore game and there’s not 11 minutes left in the game, it it changes, but it’s like that sense of urgency. Why does Kyler Murray have more time then? Why are wide receivers and tight ends open more then? Like that’s the thing that’s just this this mystery where it’s like the Cardinals are playing offense in like a a bowling lane where they can’t use the whole field. It’s it it doesn’t it you know we’re on year seven so it’s of Kyler. So it’s like yeah I agree. Yes. Whatever emergency playbook that needs to be the playbook. Go play with your hair on fire. They’re so like, and this was the one I almost threw something at a wall and shattered it. I didn’t really, it was more proverbally than anything. This is what I remember more than the last two drives. Third and three, the middle of the field right before half, and you’re running an inside read instead of putting the ball in Kyler Murray’s hands and making a play throwing the ball down the field. I don’t get it. I don’t understand it. 15 seconds left. They had the ball inbounds at like their own 40 or something and the clock took down to two seconds. It’s like, where is the urgency? Where is the awareness? All in all, after watching tonight, wanting to pull my hair out for the first 75% of it on offense, watching the defense shine down two of their top three corners, and then watching the emergence and Marv catching a touchdown pass and all those things late, it’s going to take some time to crunch all of those numbers, so to speak, to really divulge how we should view that. the Drew Petting thing like I’ve been I was apppoplelectic on Twitter. It’s like what are we doing? What are we doing here? I think the Marvin Harrison Jr. narrative is going to shift immediately. I think it’s going to shift immediately. Um but yeah, like there’s a lot to there’s a lot to take in, a lot to decompress about. Cardinals lose, move to two and two. Um there was a question if they should have gone for it gone for two. wouldn’t have really mattered if if it happened the way that it happened afterwards. Um, I will be talking about this all week. Thanks for hanging out on the on the fourth uh instant reaction show. Um, you guys are the best. Much appreciated. I will be going live with J Douglas and Ben Garcia in under three minutes on this same channel. So, just pivot over, man. There’s going to be more of us. It’s going to be awesome. Alex Lockdown Cardinals. I’ll talk to you Monday as well. But, Cardinal Squad Show in less than five minutes. Join us, won’t you? Talk to you then.

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