{"id":420154,"date":"2025-10-04T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/420154\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T19:09:10","slug":"experienced-against-rookie-quarterbacks-cardinals-prepare-for-top-pick-cam-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/420154\/","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Against Rookie Quarterbacks, Cardinals Prepare For Top Pick Cam Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ward, 23, has earned a reputation in the Titans locker room as being a quarterback with loads of confidence.<\/p>\n<p>In <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azcardinals.com\/team\/players-roster\/mack-wilson\/\" title=\"Mack Wilson Sr.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mack Wilson Sr.<\/a>&#8216;s eyes, the latest trend he has seen from rookie quarterbacks has been their demeanor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Guys are obviously a little more confident coming into the league nowadays and you would want that, especially coming from that position,&#8221; the linebacker said. &#8220;I feel like it&#8217;s more of how is your college program is ran. Miami is a great program and obviously they run a program like how a National Football League program would be run, so I feel like getting those guys prepared for the next level and coming into the next level with a sense of confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At Alabama, Wilson learned as early as his freshman season what it&#8217;d take to play in the NFL. In the three seasons he was at Alabama, the Crimson Tide had a 41-3 record with a National Championship victory in 2017. The Cardinals this year started 2-0 before falling on final play field goals in each of the last two games.<\/p>\n<p>Craving the desire to return to the win column, the long weekend allowed the Cardinals&#8217; captain to reset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You had time to even go back and watch both of the last two games and pinpoint certain things that I feel like we need to get better as a team, as a group, and individually, and I feel like it was easy to see,&#8221; Wilson said. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to take all of us to just stay committed, stay locked in, and believe in one another. I feel like we&#8217;re just getting started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The defense has done a solid job through four games, generating a noticeable pass rush and impacting the quarterback. With the different schemes and disguises defensive coordinator Nick Rallis likes to deploy, Ward will be tested, especially behind a Titans offensive line without starting tackle JC Latham.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where Campbell&#8217;s impact will be felt. He leads all Cardinals defensive lineman with eight pressures and has three sacks thus far.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, it&#8217;ll mark the 24th time in Campbell&#8217;s 18-year career that he&#8217;ll play against a rookie quarterback. He holds a 15-8 record in those games with 80 tackles and nine sacks.<\/p>\n<p>But for the first time, the rookie is a Miami Hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the greatest sign of respect is to give your best,&#8221; Campbell said. &#8220;Every time I play against guys who are considered Hall of Famers or just guys I have a lot of respect for, they always get my best effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ward, 23, has earned a reputation in the Titans locker room as being a quarterback with loads of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[4755,1051,7,1053,12720,1052,88,6,526,394,70257,2411,527,1252],"class_list":{"0":"post-420154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-calais-campbell","9":"tag-featured-articles","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-home-page-news-headlines","12":"tag-mack-wilson","13":"tag-mega-feed","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-tennessee","17":"tag-tennessee-titans","18":"tag-tennessee-titans-at-arizona-cardinals-2025-reg-5","19":"tag-tennesseetitans","20":"tag-titans","21":"tag-zach-gershman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420154","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=420154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}