But the Cardinals are the NFL’s fourth-ranked rushing team, led by second-year running back David Johnson, who is third in rushing yards (468) and first in rushing touchdowns (eight).
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Emerge with a win, and the Cardinals will be squarely back in the conversation as one of the NFC’s best teams, a legitimate Super Bowl contender. The Cardinals have not beating their division rival in Arizona since 2012, and for the most part, the losses have not been close.
Add this one to Brandon’s highlight reel. Despite being antsy to play, Smith provides very little hope.
Buffalo’s 312 rushing yards were its most since gaining 315 in a November 11, 1992 win over the New Orleans Saints.
Those interior guys included two new guards Earl Watford and John Wetzel who were playing due to injuries to starters Evan Mathis and Mike Iupati. It wasn’t a problem. NY entered the game second in the National Football League in run defense at 68 yards per game. You can’t expect better than that.
This year’s edition isn’t known as the big-chunk, deep-play offense it’s been in coach Bruce Arians’ first three seasons. “We have two quarterbacks that can play right now”.
The offense piled up almost 400 yards of offense. He wasn’t credited with a tackle, but he had a pass defensed.
Special teams coach Joe DeCamillis was named interim head coach during Kubiak’s absence and was in charge when the Broncos (4-2) lost 21-13 at San Diego on Thursday night.
Beating bad teams does not a good team make, but good teams beat up on bad teams. There wasn’t much to be displeased with. While he didn’t have any drops this game, he did have one major gaffe: a holding penalty that brought back a big DJ run. Arizona’s offense also dominated New York’s “D” in the time of possession battle, 36:02 to 23:58, and went a ideal 3-for-3 in red zone efficiency.
The safety had himself a game.
“I take great pride in that phase of raising young coaches”, Arians said. The Jets have scored only three touchdowns in the past four games, and one of them was a fluke fumble return.
Cooper caught 10 passes for 129 yards in the Raiders’ 26-10 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. The Cardinals rush defense was phenomenal behind DE Calais Campbell and LB Chandler Jones, keeping RB Matt Forte to only 19 yards off 9 rushes. There are 10 games to play, plenty of time to climb back into contention, but the schedule is daunting.
Now 3-3, both the offense and the defense appear to have found their groove. They built momentum on Johnson’s running, and the Cardinals began to roll early in a game like they hadn’t yet this season. When that happens, the passing game needs to be ready.
That’s remarkable efficiency, and exactly what Arizona needed from its signal-caller against a defense that opted to bring more pressure last night than it had throughout the season.
Offensively, the Jets couldn’t get anything going, as evidenced by the fact that they were able to muster only a field goal in 60 minutes of play.
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“Once you start running the football in four, five, six yards a clip, that safety starts coming up and they start diving down, you can get some single coverage behind, and I think I did a good job”, wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald said.
