Let the win not fool

Arz101

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1. Yay!. Cardinals won. No 0-16.

2. Again Yay!. Cardinals won. No 0-16

3. This is the same fundamentally flawed team that lost the first 4 games.

4. So why and how did they win today? The ball rolled their way! It happens to every bad team every 4-5 games and that is why it is so hard to go 0-16. And it helps if your competition sucks on the day ball rolls your way.

5. Poor run defense and cannot get off the filed on defense allowing CJ Beatherd 40 mins of clock. How much is Al Holcomb's play calling the problem? This is starting to be a legitimate question.

7. After the first play, McCoy went into a shell like Cardinals were playing with 70-0 lead. No imagination and kept running DJ between hash marks.

8. Rosen missed open throws. It is a problem. But Rosen should get benefit of doubt as it is his first Road game. Didn't throw an interception and did the minimum necessary to walk out with a win.

9. OL is an absolute mess. Freaking pathetic mess that is not seen in many cardinal years. If you cannot run block you cannot block in this league.

10. Kirk is starting to come into his own.

11. Is it play calling, Hamstring or Fitz fading away? Whatever it is, Fitz is missed in the offense.

12. For now, Wilks can help most if he starts calling defense. Currently, Wilks has no value to this team on game day anyway.

13. This team will not win more than 2 games without stopping the run from here on. Without better LBs this will be a problem all season. The best hope is a change of play calling duties from Al Holcomb to Wilks to get some better results.
 

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The pass blocking is definitely better than last year but the run blocking is unbelievable. And with 4/5 lineman being first round picks?
 

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DJ averaging 2.9 ypc and has literally been taken out of the offense so far by nearly everyone we've played. He's either regressing and was a 1-hit wonder his rookie year, our offensive line getting no push, or playcalling, or a combination of all three.
 

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If any has access to breaking down the plays I would love to know how many times we ran dj into the line on 2nd and long setting up 3rd and long. No imagination whatsoever. I know Rosen wasn’t on today but again too many drops . But hey no ints!
 

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I've honestly never seen such a lack of creativity.

You were handed the keys to a Lamborghini and your trying to go rock climbing like you got a jeep.

They need to fire McCoy now
 
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