Cardinals at Saints.... opening weekend... official game day thread!!! 09/07/25

[602 Native]

This was basically a preseason game for alot of starters, hopefully they'll be alot sharper next week.

What kind of game was it for the Saints?

 

[some dumb guy]

I have a special agreement with my wife whenever the cards win so.......sorry, gotta go..LOL

 

[BritCard]

You still don’t understand our offense after 3 seasons.

One can only laugh at you at this point.

It's exactly the same as with Kliff. It sucks.

At some point you just have to accept it's the common denominator.

When I say "you" I obviously mean normal sane people. Not you.

 

[DVontel]

Hard to be positive.

Is it?

Corners look good, defense played well. Melton and Johnson look like starting corners. Tackling was generally top notch. Benson looked like a competent 1B.

There you go.

I have no clue why you keep entertaining the K1 stans. They are who they are & you’re not going to change their minds.

 

[Chopper0080]

The Rams won 8 games by 7 points or less in 2024.

Why do our fans believe we are too good to win ugly?

Stafford had 20 TDs/ 8 INTs

For the season.

They were 17th and 20th in off and def ppg.

Don’t even get me started with the Seahawks…

They won a game 6-3, without scoring a TD on the road at CHI.

And were down 14-0 to the Jets with Rodgers on their 8 yard line. Leonard Williams got a 92 yard fumble recovery TD.

The largest return by a DT for a TD since 2006.

The chances of both things happening in one year for the same team are 1 in a million.


But we have fans who believe we should win while we are unlucky and we should “look good” or “blow out” bad teams.

After everyone was talking about how the 4-13 Cardinals in 2023 “competed,” hard, why do we act like no other team is capable of the same thing in a home opener.

Cardinals have mistakes to correct.

As does every team in week 1.

The most unpredictable week of the season.

Its almost like some people would rather be 0-1 like the last 2 seasons.

Be ready to win ugly cuz thats the only way this team is going anywhere. Thats what happens when you have a defense.

Thats how Geno won 10 games.

Thats how Stafford made the playoffs after the Rams defense dominated the 2nd half of the season.

Thats how Mahomes and Chiefs made the playoffs scoring less pts than the Cardinals last season.

They were 16th but a 4th ranked defense really helped.

Kyler will never be a top 5 QB.

He has the potential to be a playoff winning QB if he gets a top 10 def though.

Which he has yet to have his entire career.

Russell Wilson? 4 # 1 defenses in a row at SEA.

Purdy? 16 ppg allowed by the 49ers defense in his first two years. He went 17-4

But 6-9 last year with the 28th overall.

Darnold? Top 5 defense last yr definitely helped.

Geno? Top 11 DEF in ppg.

At what point do we accept we are allowed to win games like the rest of the division has.
Not only that, but finally have a defense comparable to what Kyler has player against since 2019 in the division will help the offense. This is the best Cardinals defense since 2015 and it will make the whole offense better than last year.

Mark my words.

You won’t get perfection. You will still get mistakes. But less mistakes than last year. Rams won 8 games by 7 pts or less last year.

Who won the division again?

Blocked

 

[602 Native]

Not to mention we can’t.

Again that’s by design as well.

We don’t need field stretching WRs so we don’t draft or sign any.

This is pretty simple.

We love TEs running backs and run blocking lineman. Everything else is secondary.

 

[BritCard]

I have a special agreement with my wife whenever the cards win so.......sorry, gotta go..LOL

crap man. You must really not like sex to tie it to Cardinals wins...

 

[cardinals2025]

That missed FG is looking huge right now.

It would be nice if we looked at the course of the whole game in terms of good luck/ bad luck.

The blocked fg is a rare event.

Much rarer than a backup TE dropping a pass.

 

[Chopper0080]

Yea bro Kyler isn’t good & only played one good quarter today. I’ve given up on him too

But we still won at the end of the day with some positives. Let’s talk about some positives.

I thought the secondary was ok. They were playing very soft but that is to be expected early in the season.

 

[Chopper0080]

Defensive front was ok. I thought Wilson struggled as the Mike which was the biggest defensive concern for me.

 

[HerefortheCards]

Th Cards won and covered. I’m happy today after returning home from the Casino a winner.

Y’all complain to much.

 

[slanidrac16]

Again that’s by design as well.

We don’t need field stretching WRs so we don’t draft or sign any.

This is pretty simple.

We love TEs running backs and run blocking lineman. Everything else is secondary.

Including Qb.

 

[DVontel]

I thought the secondary was ok. They were playing very soft but that is to be expected early in the season.

I know this is primarily a zone team but damn would it have been hard to play press man a little bit more?

 

[DaHilg]

Should the league be worried about Burrow? 113 yards 1 TD and a W were his final stats today.

 

[Chopper0080]

I know this is primarily a zone team but damn would it have been hard to play press man a little bit more?

Both Rallis and Gannon talk about limiting big plays. I am sure that factored in with Shaheed and Olave both having decent downfield speed.

 

[Chopper0080]

Definitely played it safe

 

[Stout]

The defense was incredibly underwhelming. As in, WTF is going on here underwhelming. Liked the two kids at CB. Hated how soft the D played. No ILBer play, poor run D, poor pass D, no real pass rush. That's against a bad team. Do that against a good team and it will be a massacre.

 

[slanidrac16]

Y'all deluded that think Kyler had a "good game".

Penix has thrown for 300 yards against the Bucs. Fields through for 230 vs the Steelers. Danny Dimes threw 272.

Kyler threw 163 against one of the worst teams in the league and 45 of them was is single good pass.

Geno Smith 362 yards.

 

[ajcardfan]

The defense was incredibly underwhelming. As in, WTF is going on here underwhelming. Liked the two kids at CB. Hated how soft the D played. No ILBer play, poor run D, poor pass D, no real pass rush. That's against a bad team. Do that against a good team and it will be a massacre.

It was obviously the game plan to force Rattler to dink and dunk down the field. It was very vanilla and boring. But they scored only 13 points so it's hard to say the game plan sucked.

I just think we all expected a lot more aggression on defense and we couldn't have played much more conservatively.

 

[GimmedaBall]

KM does not appear capable of coming up to the line and reading the D. He will stick with the play that was called even as the D shows their hand that they have read the play. KM is going to get some of our players mangled when he just takes the snap, turns and flips it out to receiver---even with D players coming full steam straight to the receiver. He needs to read the D and audible out of the doomed play.

 

[Garthshort]

Pass rush was terrible.
Murray was bad
Protection was bad
Special teams needs improvement

We almost lost a freaking game to spensor freaking rattler and his dink dunk ******** offense.

Worst win i have ever watched. This team sucks right now. God im so freaking pissed

I came away feeling disappointed with the way we played, both offense, defense and ST's. But we did cover the spread and snapped the Saints six game win streak on opening day. But perception is everything. Just not excited about the team.

 

[Chopper0080]

The defense was incredibly underwhelming. As in, WTF is going on here underwhelming. Liked the two kids at CB. Hated how soft the D played. No ILBer play, poor run D, poor pass D, no real pass rush. That's against a bad team. Do that against a good team and it will be a massacre.

I guess I didn’t expect that much. I thought it was mostly ok.

 

[FB94]

A win is a win. Some good some bad with lots of room for improvement. Second game should see overall improvement. Would like more QB pressure as area #1

 

[Stout]

I guess I didn’t expect that much. I thought it was mostly ok.

If you're happy with that, what would have been a disappointment? They were one lucky play away from going to overtime.

 

[Cardsfan77]

Very much a bend don’t break D strategy today, interesting choice, but guessing Rallis didn’t want any huge explosives given up while knocking rust off

 

[GimmedaBall]

You still don’t understand our offense after 3 seasons.

One can only laugh at you at this point.

Sorry 602 Native but I believe BritCard is right on with his understanding of what is going on (and not going on) with our Offense. The one who doesn't understand what to do is KM.