{"id":107220,"date":"2025-06-05T23:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/107220\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T23:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:59:13","slug":"more-sauce-the-benefits-of-cardinals-offensive-continuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/107220\/","title":{"rendered":"More sauce! The benefits of Cardinals&#8217; offensive continuity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPE \u2014 The Arizona Cardinals were far from circling the wagons when it came to adding offensive pieces. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, the defense got the facelift, while the offense enters 2025 largely running it back behind quarterback Kyler Murray, tight end Trey McBride and wide receivers Marvin Harrison Jr., Michael Wilson and Greg Dortch in the passing game.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of significant moves signals the front office\u2019s feeling in the current makeup of the offense ahead of Year 3 under current leadership.<\/p>\n<p>But fewer moves this offseason means more wrinkles or \u201csauce\u201d for the mainstays that have watched the rebuild firsthand.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More &#8220;sauce&#8221; for a Cardinals offense largely running it back in 2025?<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like it. \ud83c\udf5d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5n33HXlNMd\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/5n33HXlNMd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tyler Drake (@Tdrake4sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tdrake4sports\/status\/1930754571275829603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">June 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could tell from the first year they were here to where we are now, the plays they\u2019re putting in, it\u2019s not as fundamental. It\u2019s not as basic,\u201d McBride said Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nfl\/arizona-cardinals\/walter-nolen\/3585939\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">during OTAs.<\/a> \u201cThey\u2019re adding a lot of motions and a lot of sauce is what I call it. Just putting a little extra flavor on the same plays that we have. Definitely a lot more complex. Trying to stick to our main concepts that we have but dressing them up in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis offense can be very complex. The way that Drew and these guys have changed throughout the offseason and continue to build it, it\u2019s been a lot of fun and I\u2019m excited to see us in action here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given how the offense has evolved since Petzing got to town, any added sauce should be expected.<\/p>\n<p>Across the current regime\u2019s first season, the offense had 221 plays with pre-snap motions on passing downs. That number jumped to 274 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, that tally should increase even more in 2025, especially with the continuity and chemistry the unit has running it back.<\/p>\n<p>A jump in the range of the Miami Dolphins\u2019 motion-happy 460 mark seems a bit much \u2014 too much sauce can get slippery \u2014 but a number similar to the Philadelphia Eagles at 282 should be a baseline for Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Anything to keep the defense guessing and give the offense a leg up after adding little to the arsenal this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Kyler Murray scored 12 of his 21 touchdowns on plays with pre-snap motions. What could this season total look like with even more sauce like McBride alluded to?<\/p>\n<p>Same Cardinals faces, more Arizona trash talk (and competition)<\/p>\n<p>Arizona\u2019s continuity gives the offense more opportunities for added wrinkles within the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>It also raises the waterline on the trash talk and battles between the offense and defense (more specifically DC Nick Rallis) that much higher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the competition we have right now,\u201d Rallis said Tuesday. \u201cTrey can\u2019t make a catch in practice without looking at me and talking to me. \u2026 Marvin makes a great catch and he doesn\u2019t really give me much. Dortch fires back at me. It\u2019s been a lot of familiar faces that let\u2019s be honest I\u2019ve been talking a lot of smack to for a handful of years and I love going back and forth in practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they make a play in the moment, I\u2019m pissed. I want to make those plays, but I also know that they\u2019re making us better \u2026 and we need them to make those plays on Sunday for us. I love what we\u2019re doing. Drew\u2019s super innovative. Every year there\u2019s going to be new things that he presents to us and I\u2019m like, \u2018Whoa, what was that? Where\u2019s that been?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Where does TE Trey McBride rank as a trash talker?<\/p>\n<p>McBride the football player is smooth with the ball in his hands.<\/p>\n<p>As for McBride the trash talker? Rallis has a different view of the once highest-paid tight end.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More offensive continuity means even more trash talk during practice for Cardinals DC Nick Rallis (especially from TE Trey McBride). \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fZgaihALUo\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/fZgaihALUo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tyler Drake (@Tdrake4sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tdrake4sports\/status\/1929994160574214460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">June 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t come out smooth. He backs it up, though, and that hurts me,\u201d Rallis said. \u201cThat hurts me when he catches balls in practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McBride (of course) has his own assessment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m probably a little better than what he said, but we always have a good time and we definitely do talk a lot of smack,\u201d McBride said laughing. \u201cI really do enjoy competing against his crazy defense every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tdrake4sports\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Tdrake4sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE \u2014 The Arizona Cardinals were far from circling the wagons when it came to adding offensive pieces.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,1632,2604,1327,7,1631,6,1630],"class_list":{"0":"post-107220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-home","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114633478331540549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}