{"id":281252,"date":"2025-08-12T04:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/281252\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T04:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:17:18","slug":"backup-quarterback-battle-round-one-goes-to-jacoby-brissett-by-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/281252\/","title":{"rendered":"Backup quarterback battle: Round one goes to Jacoby Brissett by a lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After one preseason game, and training camp, the Arizona Cardinals backup quarterback battle is really not much of a battle, but more of a formality with the only question is if the Cardinals can get into the regular season healthy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jacoby Brissett got three series, his first series was a bit uneventful, going 0-2 and getting a three and out for the offense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Then the Arizona Cardinals defense made a big play, getting an interception, and Brissett and the offense came back on the field. Trey Benson carried the ball three times, gaining seven yards, and on 3-8, Drew Petzing dialed up a screen that Emari Demercado took to the house for Brissett\u2019s first touchdown of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So, 1-3 for 43 yards and a touchdown, not too shabby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Brissett\u2019s next drive was a little better, as he had completions of 11 yards, 13 yards, 13 yards, and a one yard pass for a touchdown to Xavier Weaver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Brissett through the ball over 10 yards once, and was 5-7 on passes under 10 yards, and had an average depth of target of six yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It was a smart and efficient day for Brissett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Clayton Tune on the other hand took some chances, but he was 0-4 on passes over 10 yards, and threw an interception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He was a cool 5-5 for 47 yards on passes of less than 10 yards, but his average depth of target for the game was 10.3 yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It is an interesting juxtaposition on the two in their battle. Jacoby basically knows how to take advantage of what the defense is going to give him, allowing the playmakers on offense to do their thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Meanwhile, Tune is making throws that maybe you make to try and show off a little?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Either way, while we know it is highly, highly unlikely that Brissett doesn\u2019t make the roster, in round one of the backup battle, there was a clear winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After one preseason game, and training camp, the Arizona Cardinals backup quarterback battle is really not much of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,11295,12051,2604,1327,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-281252","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-cardinals-depth-chart","11":"tag-arizona-cardinals-preseason","12":"tag-arizonacardinals","13":"tag-cardinals","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115013867833647218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281252","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=281252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}