{"id":276348,"date":"2025-08-10T07:31:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/276348\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T07:31:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:31:28","slug":"arizona-cardinals-get-win-over-kansas-city-chiefs-in-preseason-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/276348\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals get win over Kansas City Chiefs in Preseason opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Happy preseason one and all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Arizona Cardinals are 1-0 and clearly heading to the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Or, they did enough with the starters, showed some things, had some boneheaded plays, and in the end did enough to get a win in their preseason opener 20-17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We saw an efficient offensive drive end by an inexplicable interception by Kyler Murray, but it\u2019s the preseason, so it is what it is at this point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The bigger concern of the night was the fact that the kick returners apparently cannot hold onto the football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The starting defense gave up a touchdown but can we blame them?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ideally they would have held them to a field goal after the Greg Dortch fumble, but again, it is the preseason and we didn\u2019t see all the big guns out.<br \/>Jacoby Brissett and the second offense put up two touchdowns, and they did enough to get the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We will look at this more in depth this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy preseason one and all. The Arizona Cardinals are 1-0 and clearly heading to the Super Bowl. Or,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[49927,12051,16193,346,7,118,110,2438,2437,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-276348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals-game-information","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals-preseason","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals-scores-results","11":"tag-chiefs","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-kansas-city","14":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","15":"tag-kansascity","16":"tag-kansascitychiefs","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115003305744173491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276348","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=276348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}