Information on Cardinal Penalties this year

[nationsrj]

Hi all,

I did some simple analysis on the Cardinal Penalties this year. I did not make any(many) judgements on them, but throw them out
there as food for thought. This analysis was performed using the gamebooks
from nfl.com. I updated to include the last two games.

I included penalties made after turnovers as current role penalties(Defense when we had a turnover, Offense if we caused a turnover)

In addition, the Cardinals had 19 Penalties declined.

Spl Team Offense Defense Totals
30 64 43 137 Penalties
251 469 431 1151 Yards

By Week

Spl Team Offense Defense Totals
Wk 17 - STL 2 3 3 8
Wk 16 - ATL 1 1 2 4
Wk 15 - NO 3 6 1 10
Wk 14 - SEA 0 2 5 7
Wk 13 - CLV 1 6 4 11
Wk 12 - SF 5 4 1 10
Wk 11 - CIN 3 3 5 11
Wk 10 - DET 1 5 3 9
Wk 9 - WAS 3 4 2 9
Wk 8 - Bye 0 0 0 0
Wk 7 - TB 1 6 1 8
Wk 6 - CAR 3 5 3 11
Wk 5 - STL 4 2 5 11
Wk 4 - PIT 1 3 1 5
Wk 3 - BAL 1 4 1 6
Wk 2 - SEA 1 4 2 7
Wk 1 - SF 0 6 4 10

I further broke down Special Teams Penalties by which team
9 Punt
8 Punt Return
1 KO
6 KO Return
1 FG
2 FG Block
2 XP
1 XP Block

 

[nationsrj]

Additional Information

Special Teams Penalties by Player

Name Number Yards
A. Rolle 3 25
B. Patrick 2 11
Bra. Johnson 1 10
C. Pace 3 20
D. Blackstock 4 35
E. Brown 1 15
E. Green 1 5
J. Arrington 1 5
J. Tafoya 1 5
K. Vincent 2 20
L. Pope 1 10
M. Barr 1 5
M. Beisel 1 10
M. Shipp 1 15
O. Celestin 1 7
R. Brown 1 15
T. Holt 1 5
T. Smith 1 10

 

[Duckjake]

I was looking at that the other day as well. The number of special teams penalties is ridiculous.

 

[nationsrj]

Additional Information

Defensive Penalties by Player

Name Number Yards
A. Rolle 3 38
A. Smith 3 31
A. Wilson 4 70
B. Patrick 1 15
C. Pace 6 60
D. Blackstock 1 5
D. Dockett 4 37
E. Green 2 10
G. Hayes 1 5
G. Watson 2 10
J. Tafoya 1 5
K. Dansby 5 25
L. Pope 1 15
R. Hood 3 28
Unknown 1 5

 

[abomb]

Great stuff!

 

[nationsrj]

Additional Information

Offensive Penalties by Player

Name Number Yards
A. Boldin 6 60
L. Fitzgerald 1 10
Bry. Johnson 1 5
J. Urban 1 10
K. Warner 2 15
M. Leinert 2 10
E. James 2 20
J. Arrington 2 22
L. Pope 8 45
T. Bienemann 1 5
M. Gandy 7 55
R. Wells 6 39
A. Johnson 1 10
D. Lutui 9 78
L. Brown 5 25
E. Brown 2 10
Unknown 4 25

 

[dreamcastrocks]

yikes.

 

[DKCards]

It's sad that many of the leaders on this team are some of the worse offenders.

I think that shows why it is such a problem

 

[dogpoo32]

Dang. It looks a lot different when you break it down by the accused. So many penalties by our "core" just helps show how systemic this problem is.

 

[joeshmo]

It's sad that many of the leaders on this team are some of the worse offenders.

I think that shows why it is such a problem

Very Good Point.

How does a receiver get 6 penalties?

 

[moklerman]

The joy of statistics. The least penalized game for the offense-2...week 14 vs. Seattle!

 

[nationsrj]

Very Good Point.

How does a receiver get 6 penalties?

Q gets most of his penalties from blocking downfield.

1 15 yard when he spiked a ball in front of Ray Lewis after a touchdown
2 illegal block in the back 20 yards
2 holding(while blocking) 20 yards
1 False Start.

 

[football karma]

Very Good Point.

How does a receiver get 6 penalties?

I seem to recall Q getting several holding calls -- I bet that at least half of those are holding calls --

the old illegal formation call often times gets attributed to a wideout, when it could have been either a TE or a slot guy not far enough away from the line.

 

[dogpoo32]

It's sad that many of the leaders on this team are some of the worse offenders.

I think that shows why it is such a problem

Oh, I posted almost exactly what you said. Reading is fun, I should try it sometime...

 

[nationsrj]

My thoughts on OL Penalties

D. Lutui has mostly Holding calls, but he is trying to save his QB and RB from
Destruction.
5 Holding calls
3 False Starts
1 Unnecessary Roughness

L. Brown has all False Starts, but he is getting his QB destroyed.

M. Gandy had mainly a couple of games impact.
4 Holding(2 at NO)
3 False Starts(2 at TB)

A. Johnson had 1 Holding.

R. Wells had a mixture.
1 Unnecessary Roughness
3 False Starts
2 Ineligible Downfield(Both in the first 3 games)

E. Brown had 2 False Starts(against PIT)

 

[JC_AZ]

A "Smart, Disciplined Football Team"

 

[lobo]

Hi all,

I did some simple analysis on the Cardinal Penalties this year thru the NO game. I did not make any(many) judgements on them, but throw them out
there as food for thought. This analysis was performed using the gamebooks
from nfl.com.

Thank you very much for your work. I don't know if my prioir post motivated you to do this, as I submit..albeit I did not have the facts, that teams with high number of penalties or yards penalized are going to have the losing records regardless of the talent level. This lack of discipline or whatever one wants to call it has to "go away" for us to really take the next step. I do know the Raiders have over the past several years have been highly penalized and their record speaks for it.

This has been a carryover from yesteryear and is the ONE area I must say we made no improvement under a very capable coaching staff.

 

[D-Dogg]

Really great thread!

Some of those numbers are eye-opening. All the ST penalties are ridiculous. Though we've improved our return game, our ST is still one of the weakest, most dangerous (and not in a good way) units on the field. The hidden yards from those penalties would probably turn my stomach.

 

[nationsrj]

My initial reasons for starting this thread were because we have the most
penalties in the league and I wanted to see if there might be a correlation(sp)
between certain players and the penalties.

Lobo, I don't know if this started from your post or not, but I did want
to see what I could find out.

A couple of comments on what I found.
Defensive players tended to have more yards per penalty. This is because
of two reasons. One, Defensive backs are hit very hard if they have a penalty, due to the ball being placed where the foul occurred. Example,
Adrian Wilson's 25 yard interference penalty. The other, hitting the QB
or sometimes other players during or after the play, hits for 15 yards,
sometimes in addition to the play.

Offensive linemen have a lot of penalties
Gandy 7
Lutui 9
Wells 6
L. Brown 5
Johnson 1

Young players had some trouble
Lutui 9
Pope 8
Patrick 2(But they really hurt us, and he only played a few games)
L. Brown 5
E. Brown 2(only a few games)

 

[Skkorpion]

Good work, nation, but somehow, I think you've miscounted Al Johnson's penalties.

 

[nationsrj]

Good work, nation, but somehow, I think you've miscounted Al Johnson's penalties.

Quite possible, there were 4 offensive penalties that nfl.com had as just
against the team. However, without more work than I plan on, he only
had 1 penalty assigned to him. It is also possible that a penalty was
not assigned correctly. GIGO apply's in this case.

 

[Skkorpion]

Hey nation, don't sweat it. You put in a lot of work and gave us good grist to chew about. Thank you again.

 

[joeshmo]

Here is something funny. Leonard Davis only has 4 penalties. 2 false starts and 2 holding calls.

Also Al Johnson does in fact only have 1 penalty.

http://www.profootballweekly.com/PFW/STATS/NFL_LiveScores.htm?link=players

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

L. Brown has all False Starts, but he is getting his QB destroyed.

He was the perfect replacement for LD... Can the cards PLEASE ban the use of #75!!!???

 

[JeffGollin]

Reading between the lines of Wiz's Mon. presser, he points out that some penalties weren't due so much to the guy committing the infraction as it was from one or more other guys blowing an assignment, thereby creating a domino-effect resulting in a guy trying to do something he wasn't normally supposed to do.

He used as his example a crackback block by Arrington that occurred when an O-lineman missed his assignment, JJ attempted to chop block the missed target in order to salvage the play, but not realizing that the O-lineman had doubled back to take another shot at the defender. Result - 2 guys blocking the same dude from two different directions and JJ getting flagged.

My point (at least on offense) - our O-line has to execute better. If Russ Grimm can get them to do so, their number of penalties should logically go down.

(Note - At least indirectly, this principle should apply to the ridiculous number of false start calls - when a lineman has mastered his blocking techniques and feels confident he can handle his man, he'll be less tempted to anticipate the count in order to gain an additional edge on his opponent).