Article Title: "Is it even possible to coach an NFL team worse than the Cardinals’ staff?"

[carrrnuttt]

Pretty much most of my feelings summed up:

https://www.sbnation.com/2018/10/19...os-david-johnson-coach-steve-wilks-mike-mccoy

More amazing is that the Cardinals are doing it in 2018 — a year when NFL defenses can no longer keep up with offenses. The average team is racking up 366 yards per game — well over the 334.1-yard average of 2017 — while the Cardinals are barely cracking 200.

If the Chiefs and Rams offenses are playing chess, the rest of the NFL is playing checkers, and the Cardinals are in the corner chewing on the game pieces.

There’s a lot of reasons why the Cardinals are arguably the NFL’s worst dumpster fire in 2018, but it all starts with a coaching staff, led by Steve Wilks, that isn’t doing anything right.

What about our "defensive-minded" coach?

The defense is a coaching disaster too

Earlier this year, our own Alex Rubenstein pointed out that the Cardinals never break out of nickel defense. Never ever.

In a 34-0 loss to the Rams in Week 2, the Cardinals had five defensive backs — Patrick Peterson, Jamar Taylor, Budda Baker, Antoine Bethea, and Tre Boston — on the field for all 72 defensive snaps. Not even on a fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line did the Cardinals think ‘Hmm ... an extra defensive lineman instead of another 200-pound DB would probably be a good idea here.’

While it hasn’t quite been five defensive backs playing 100 percent of the snaps in every game since that Week 2 blowout, the problem hasn’t gone away. The Cardinals still stubbornly refuse to have any more than six defensive lineman and linebackers on the field.

 

[jf-08]

The in-game adjustments are non-existent.

It's like a junior high school football team mindset.

 

[SoCal Cardfan]

Such a depressing read... The truth hurts.

This whole coaching staff is a dumpster fire.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

https://www.sbnation.com/2018/10/19...os-david-johnson-coach-steve-wilks-mike-mccoy

More amazing is that the Cardinals are doing it in 2018 — a year when NFL defenses can no longer keep up with offenses. The average team is racking up 366 yards per game — well over the 334.1-yard average of 2017 — while the Cardinals are barely cracking 200.

If the Chiefs and Rams offenses are playing chess, the rest of the NFL is playing checkers, and the Cardinals are in the corner chewing on the game pieces.

There’s a lot of reasons why the Cardinals are arguably the NFL’s worst dumpster fire in 2018, but it all starts with a coaching staff, led by Steve Wilks, that isn’t doing anything right

 

[blindseyed]

There's nothing in that paragraph I can disagree with

 

[MadCardDisease]

The entire article is pretty spot on. It's a disgrace what has happened to DJ and how he has been used.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

NFL
The Arizona Cardinals Are Toilet Soup

https://deadspin.com/the-arizona-cardinals-are-toilet-soup-1829855861

 

[ReasonableMan]

That is one harsh article. I hope somebody prints a copy for Bidwill/Keim/Wilks to read.

 

[GatorAZ]

Credit to those who called the McCoy hire what it was in real time. I didn’t love it but held out hope he’d be “good enough” for the Cards. In January we were still picking 15th so had we been in the top-5 maybe they go a different direction knowing we’d have a young QB to groom.

 

[CFLredzoned]

If the Chiefs and Rams offenses are playing chess, the rest of the NFL is playing checkers, and the Cardinals are in the corner chewing on the game pieces.

That's the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.

 

[cardsunsfan]

Do the Cardinals have good emails for Keim etc... This definitely should be sent to them...

 

[Finito]

Ugh

Sad

 

[sdscard4]

So we used a nickel package on 4th and 1 at the goal line lol WTH. I hate you Wilks