moklerman
Rise from the Ashes III
Just rewatched the Redskins game since I missed big chunks of it live. IMO, the Cardinals made a huge error in approaching the preseason to avoid injuries. This team is not in sync at all. They need a ton of work together and playing more in the preseason would have helped in that regard.
Hardly anyone looked ready to go and the offense and defense did not look like they were working as units. Game tape be damned, Wilkes should have had his starters learning the scheme and acclimating to one another all preseason.
If that meant running your offense against the other teams scrubs running vanilla schemes, then they should have done it. If regular season defenses figure you out then you adjust but the way it is now, it's going to take another game or two at least just to get this team functioning at a base level.
So far, I'm very unimpressed with Wilkes. His defense looked terrible against a very average looking Redskins offense. He picked a terrible OC overall and one that has had little to no success cultivating and grooming a young QB.
There is very little to find as a positive from that first game other than there weren't any major injuries.
Hardly anyone looked ready to go and the offense and defense did not look like they were working as units. Game tape be damned, Wilkes should have had his starters learning the scheme and acclimating to one another all preseason.
If that meant running your offense against the other teams scrubs running vanilla schemes, then they should have done it. If regular season defenses figure you out then you adjust but the way it is now, it's going to take another game or two at least just to get this team functioning at a base level.
So far, I'm very unimpressed with Wilkes. His defense looked terrible against a very average looking Redskins offense. He picked a terrible OC overall and one that has had little to no success cultivating and grooming a young QB.
There is very little to find as a positive from that first game other than there weren't any major injuries.