Baron Browning wants to get sacks. But he isn’t focusing on it – in fact, he loves how he’s deployed by defensive coordinator Nick Rallis, dropping into coverage sometimes (like the play in which he had an interception against the Panthers) and sometimes getting after the QB.

“I just love any quarterback that doesn’t want to move out of the pocket,” Browning said on this week’s “Big Red Rage.”

Browning is off to an excellent start, one of the guys who was under the radar as everyone waited for Josh Sweat and wondered about BJ Ojulari and worshiped the return of Calais Campbell. Six tackles, a sack, a pick, two tackles for loss, a pass defensed.

With nine QB pressures, Browning has teamed with Sweat (10) to be one of only two pairs of teammates with at least nine pressures each over the first two games, according to Next Gen Stats. (The other duo is New England’s Harold Landry and K’Lavon Chaisson.)

The pass rush has been interesting for the Cardinals. They have blitzed only 13.9 percent of the time this season, third-lowest in the league. (Last year their rate was 26.7, which was actually under the league average and belying Rallis’ reputation for scheming a ton on the pass rush.)

They went through Week 1 disappointed they let QB Spencer Rattler out of the pocket too often. The job was to keep Panthers QB Bryce Young in the pocket in Week 2, which they did – although they would’ve liked to make Young more uncomfortable.

According to Trumedia, the Cardinals rushed just four on 30 of Carolina’s 32 fourth-quarter dropbacks.

“You’d like not to play 90 plays too,” coach Jonathan Gannon said. “We’d like to play complementary football a little bit better. You understand you can have games like that. As far as the pass rush, you always think it can be better. I want to see guys take a jump from Week 2 to Week 3. We have to affect the passer.”

— Speaking of the passer, San Francisco style: Brock Purdy is “highly unlikely” to play, which was always the probability. Purdy is better than Mac Jones. But they’d be doing the same things in-game, so I don’t think it really impacted the Cardinals’ prep. Jones, who started in State Farm Stadium in 2022 for the Patriots, will get another crack at the Cardinals.

(You remember that game. Kyler Murray tore his ACL on the third play, and everything changed from there.)

— The Cardinals are 7-4 all-time at Levi’s Stadium. Murray talked about how much he likes playing there. This is a big one, even this early in the season.

— Want to talk about the target share wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. is getting? That’s fine, but you might as well leave out MHJ himself.

“That’s a silly conversation really. We’re 2-0,” Harrison said. “Everybody wants the ball. Everybody who is a competitor, loves the game, loves what they do, everybody wants the ball and to impact the game, but most importantly it’s all about winning.”

— Not only did Campbell have a triumphant return to State Farm Stadium last weekend with two sacks – including the game-clinching sack – but he had his family close by in one of the end zone casitas.

“I spent a pretty penny on that suite but to me it was necessary because I wanted my family close,” Campbell said. “There’s no better feeling.”