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Superbowl, Homeboy!
This is a hard one to do analysis on to be honest. A little shorter than usual due to daugther's ear infection keeping me busy.
Again I'll start with the usual shout out to the D. Again they did not lose this game for us. They played extremely hard for 3-3.5 quarters leading to this team dominating a 9-2 away.
SCHEME
Last week I called for tweaks to the scheme and not doing adjustments when the opposing defense is playing directly into the weakness of our offense. Against one of the best defenses we have faced there needed to be adjustments.
For a majority of the game the default 12 and 13 scheme was utilized and it showed the best results.
I called out several issues in the Seattle game, where the Seahawks completely disrupted the run game and the use of pulls by having dominating DTs shooting the gaps and there was a lack of adjustment to mitigate this.
I called for using the 12 personal more creatively, more designed runs for Kyler and more roll-outs to Kyler in order to ease the pass-rush pressure.
The good news is that Petzing is appearently is following my advice and did several of the asks I had.
We started right of the gate with opening the playbook out of 12 and 13 more. This is exactly what I asked for. The Seahawks didn't respect the full passing game and just kept shooting the guard gap to disrupt the pulling guards in the rungame and put pressure on Kyler. First three passes were to Reiman, McBride and Higgins respectively. Love this. Getting Reiman involved means defenses has to respect him in coverage. Earlier in the season there was a huge respect on him, because he's often the designated lead blocker on Kyler runs. With Kyler running less, the other TEs need to be a threat that has to be accounted for.
I liked the designed runs by Kyler - again something to ease the pressure from the O-line.
The Cardinals dominated this game statistically basicly in all categories - 406 yards vs. 267 yards - TOP 36 min vs. 24 min just as examples.
So what went wrong?
The least penalized team entering the game comittted multiple penalties.
The adjustments made to the scheme were not consistent throughout the game. It seems every time the Cardinals were closing in on the end-zone, the sceme and playcalling became more conservative.
Also when victory was within reach, the coaching staff played it safe. Too Safe! This team is still from the second tier and when playing a 1st tier team away, you have to be bold.
When the game was on the line, it was back to throwing balls to a covered MHJ. Wilson played one heck of a game. Why is he not WR1 at this point? Zay Jones has 1 catch for 2 yards for the season, but 2 long PI. Why?
O-Line
Redemption for the O-line that overall played okay against a good defense. Pass-protection was solid. Run blocking lacked a bit when looking at the game, but 154 yards rushing output against the #1 rushing defense in the league is hard discredit.
PJJ gave up the only sack, while actually doing a decent job. Simply a great play by Greenard.
Jonah Williams looked good in pass-protection. He gets a horrible run blocking grade. Not sure he deserves that low a grade, but clearly better in pass-protection than run blocking.
Brown was just solid.
The Colon cindarella story is nearing it's end IMO. He has played well as a back-up, but week by week he's getting more and more exposed as the weak link. I think we were a stupid holding penalty from Adams away from him taking the starting job. Adams played better and was in on the TD drive with decent pass protection.
Froholdt played well, but two penalties, where he only was responsible for one.
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Again I'll start with the usual shout out to the D. Again they did not lose this game for us. They played extremely hard for 3-3.5 quarters leading to this team dominating a 9-2 away.
SCHEME
Last week I called for tweaks to the scheme and not doing adjustments when the opposing defense is playing directly into the weakness of our offense. Against one of the best defenses we have faced there needed to be adjustments.
For a majority of the game the default 12 and 13 scheme was utilized and it showed the best results.
I called out several issues in the Seattle game, where the Seahawks completely disrupted the run game and the use of pulls by having dominating DTs shooting the gaps and there was a lack of adjustment to mitigate this.
I called for using the 12 personal more creatively, more designed runs for Kyler and more roll-outs to Kyler in order to ease the pass-rush pressure.
The good news is that Petzing is appearently is following my advice and did several of the asks I had.
We started right of the gate with opening the playbook out of 12 and 13 more. This is exactly what I asked for. The Seahawks didn't respect the full passing game and just kept shooting the guard gap to disrupt the pulling guards in the rungame and put pressure on Kyler. First three passes were to Reiman, McBride and Higgins respectively. Love this. Getting Reiman involved means defenses has to respect him in coverage. Earlier in the season there was a huge respect on him, because he's often the designated lead blocker on Kyler runs. With Kyler running less, the other TEs need to be a threat that has to be accounted for.
I liked the designed runs by Kyler - again something to ease the pressure from the O-line.
The Cardinals dominated this game statistically basicly in all categories - 406 yards vs. 267 yards - TOP 36 min vs. 24 min just as examples.
So what went wrong?
The least penalized team entering the game comittted multiple penalties.
The adjustments made to the scheme were not consistent throughout the game. It seems every time the Cardinals were closing in on the end-zone, the sceme and playcalling became more conservative.
Also when victory was within reach, the coaching staff played it safe. Too Safe! This team is still from the second tier and when playing a 1st tier team away, you have to be bold.
When the game was on the line, it was back to throwing balls to a covered MHJ. Wilson played one heck of a game. Why is he not WR1 at this point? Zay Jones has 1 catch for 2 yards for the season, but 2 long PI. Why?
O-Line
Redemption for the O-line that overall played okay against a good defense. Pass-protection was solid. Run blocking lacked a bit when looking at the game, but 154 yards rushing output against the #1 rushing defense in the league is hard discredit.
PJJ gave up the only sack, while actually doing a decent job. Simply a great play by Greenard.
Jonah Williams looked good in pass-protection. He gets a horrible run blocking grade. Not sure he deserves that low a grade, but clearly better in pass-protection than run blocking.
Brown was just solid.
The Colon cindarella story is nearing it's end IMO. He has played well as a back-up, but week by week he's getting more and more exposed as the weak link. I think we were a stupid holding penalty from Adams away from him taking the starting job. Adams played better and was in on the TD drive with decent pass protection.
Froholdt played well, but two penalties, where he only was responsible for one.
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