The Cardinals clumsily tumbled off stage. Piling up offensive yardage (469 net total) while piling on penalties (nine for 111 yards lost). That’s multiple turnovers in three straight games.
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– So in the Cards’ two losses, they are 2-for-9 in the red zone. Mitchell undercut it and picked off the pass, and the Steelers put the game away two plays later when Landry Jones and Martavis Bryant connected for an 88-yard catch-and-run touchdown.
Washington is now 2-4.
Still, the Cardinals were moving the ball easily on the Steelers defense. Fitz used to do it all the time to Haley at practice (he’s done it to many people over the years, including me), although I will admit to see it during a game was different.
For Arizona, that is alarming.
“I was doing May, July, training camp, everything all in one in about four days, so my body was confused”, he said Monday.
Arizona got 412 yards from Carson Palmer, but he threw two costly interceptions. It was first-and-10 and Arizona trailed 18-13.
The Cardinals felt as if they had it all said and done when Vick went down.
Let’s start with the wide receivers, Bryant and Brown.
So no, it didn’t come together for Arians or his players. And when I saw him come in, I was like, there’s the over. I know I’ve got to be smart about it. I’ve got to be able to defend myself. “I think the sky is really the limit for this type of defense”. Unfortunately, the 35-year old Vick had one of the least productive games of his 15-year National Football League career. The interception was the second of the game thrown by Manning, but just when it seemed all the momentum was with the Browns, the Broncos’ 39-year-old quarterback hooked up with Sanders to temporarily regain the lead. “On a day of many good ones, that was not”.
A look at a few of the number from the game.
With the Steelers playing from behind, Landry took command of the offense and led the Steelers to scores on three scoring drives.
When Vick took over for Big Ben after his knee injury, he didn’t look comfortable or confident in the pocket and has continued to look this way, except for the final quarter against the San Diego Chargers. They have just eight sacks in the first six games.
The Arizona defense failed to fix it on the fly. He did that two times on the first play we went down and then another time on the left sideline. We just have to execute them better. “It’s obvious”, head coach Mike Tomlin said, via PennLive.com.
Stand and fight are compelling word choices. This game was all set up for the Cardinals to succeed.
Had Jones done anything over the course of the last 2 1/2 years to suggest that this was much of a possibility? Whether it was Michael Floyd’s offensive pass interference to negate a TD or Kevin Minter’s post-play push or the chop block, they didn’t help.
That said, who is the team to beat in the North: The Steelers or the Bengals? Smarter, tougher, he said.
“Yeah, all the guys were great”, said Jones.
Now it is back home next week for the Cardinals against the Baltimore Ravens. None of those teams own winning records. The Cardinals then just had no answer for Jones’s arm.
He already has a piercing view of his new team. If this game doesn’t signal the end of Vick’s career, it may show that he has a hard time running certain types of offenses. If there was true organizational confidence in Jones as a potential starting quarterback, Vick would still be unemployed, right? You’ve got to credit him. That is crucial. September and October games matter.
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One reason to get excited: This defense has it rolling. “It doesn’t have to be so defining”.
