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Today, I'm wearing my Victory Monday tie. It feels good, because it's been a very long time since I've gotten to wear it. Wins feel good — even if it's against potentially the least-talented team in the league who has been brutally crippled by injuries on both sides of the ball.
Winning feels better than losing. Once we have that out of the way, what can we take away from a game where we won the turnover battle 5-0 and only won by 10 points? A win by 10 points on the road is meaningful. It doesn't mean that we're good; it means that we're not godawful. This builds on what we've learned from two excruciating losses at home to mediocre teams in the Bears and Seahawks -- we've probably seen this team at its worst, but we're not going to win more than 4-6 games.
Chandler Jones, DE - Jones had a rough start after getting completely fooled by San Francisco's screen game. After Breida left the game, he was absolutely dominant.
Rodney Gunter, DT - Lead the defensive tackles with an astonishing 76 snaps. He's never gonna justify the praise leveled at him after he was drafted (the "next Eric Swann" nonsense), but he's managed to be consistent and is worthy of a contract extension this year.
Haason Reddick, LB - He played 107 total snaps yesterday between defense and special teams. One could easily imagine the trajectory of Reddick being similar to that of Calvin Pace -- a disappointing first contract with a team that overdrafted him followed by a solid career as a core player, but not a star, for some good defenses.
Larry Fitzgerald, WR - Age, Josh Rosen and Christian Kirk are combining to make Fitz almost completely irrelevant in this offense. He should be getting the looks that Ricky Seals-Jones is getting (who had an astonishing 6 targets and 0 catches). Does he have the desire to get on the same page with Rosen?
Josh Rosen, QB - Tough outing for the rookie, but it ended with a result that got him smiling. Consistent overthrows are almost always a problem of poor footwork. He didn't seem to show this last week, so it's hard to say where and how the breakdown happened.
Mike McCoy, OC - A garbage-time touchdown dive saved David Johnson from this space. The last three games have seen the Cards jump out to relatively early leads that fade away. The early leads are (generally) to McCoy's credit. The fact that the Cards went 3-and-out on 5 of their 12 drives is not.
Winning feels better than losing. Once we have that out of the way, what can we take away from a game where we won the turnover battle 5-0 and only won by 10 points? A win by 10 points on the road is meaningful. It doesn't mean that we're good; it means that we're not godawful. This builds on what we've learned from two excruciating losses at home to mediocre teams in the Bears and Seahawks -- we've probably seen this team at its worst, but we're not going to win more than 4-6 games.
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Chandler Jones, DE - Jones had a rough start after getting completely fooled by San Francisco's screen game. After Breida left the game, he was absolutely dominant.
Rodney Gunter, DT - Lead the defensive tackles with an astonishing 76 snaps. He's never gonna justify the praise leveled at him after he was drafted (the "next Eric Swann" nonsense), but he's managed to be consistent and is worthy of a contract extension this year.
Haason Reddick, LB - He played 107 total snaps yesterday between defense and special teams. One could easily imagine the trajectory of Reddick being similar to that of Calvin Pace -- a disappointing first contract with a team that overdrafted him followed by a solid career as a core player, but not a star, for some good defenses.
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Larry Fitzgerald, WR - Age, Josh Rosen and Christian Kirk are combining to make Fitz almost completely irrelevant in this offense. He should be getting the looks that Ricky Seals-Jones is getting (who had an astonishing 6 targets and 0 catches). Does he have the desire to get on the same page with Rosen?
Josh Rosen, QB - Tough outing for the rookie, but it ended with a result that got him smiling. Consistent overthrows are almost always a problem of poor footwork. He didn't seem to show this last week, so it's hard to say where and how the breakdown happened.
Mike McCoy, OC - A garbage-time touchdown dive saved David Johnson from this space. The last three games have seen the Cards jump out to relatively early leads that fade away. The early leads are (generally) to McCoy's credit. The fact that the Cards went 3-and-out on 5 of their 12 drives is not.
