What happened to the Offense?

[oneinchpunch]

What happened? Arizona is a pretty damn good defense. That's what happened. Every little mistake (and there were many) gets magnified when you play really good teams.

Theyre OK. But they are missing 3 of their best players from last season.

[Wheels]

I didn't have a chance to watch the game (but kept up with the live updates), what happened to the run game?

Besides the TD by Matthews they couldn't get anything going.

Cards penetrated on just about every running play. There was nothing there. Their DL was very stout, and our OL seemed completely out of sync in the run game. Our pass blocking was pretty good, though. Small pockets, but they kept Rivers clean most of the time.

[rikardo]

It's really frustrated to watch Rivers clapping his hands while the time is running down that happened on the lost snap play.

IMO they need to line up faster and give Rivers more time at the line (so that he prevents the damn clapping that to be honest I don’t like).

One of the things I did not like from the Norv era was that our O lined up at 15 to 10 seconds left almost all the time. IMO Rivers does not exceed with so little time left to do his reads or changes.

[Beerman]

Cards penetrated on just about every running play. There was nothing there. Their DL was very stout, and our OL seemed completely out of sync in the run game. Our pass blocking was pretty good, though. Small pockets, but they kept Rivers clean most of the time.

To be fair, they were bringing blitzes all game long. For some stupid reason we kept running right into them. They adjusted somewhat in the second half, but still. That's what Zona did last year. They had the best run D doing that all year long. They dared you to beat them through the air. Got to beat them on the edges when they blitz up the middle so often.

[rikardo]

To be fair, they were bringing blitzes all game long. For some stupid reason we kept running right into them. They adjusted somewhat in the second half, but still. That's what Zona did last year. They had the best run D doing that all year long. They dared you to beat them through the air. Got to beat them on the edges when they blitz up the middle so often.

It would have been nice to see a screen pass instead of one of those reverse runs versus a blitzing team.

[TTK]

It would have been nice to see a screen pass instead of one of those reverse runs versus a blitzing team.

This.

[Mister Hoarse]

Norv this

[Steve]

Cards play the screen pretty well. Their DB are really good at shedding blocks and making the open field tackles. Not sure the screens would have helped us that much. They won the game on the perimeter.

[blueman]

No Clary, no Hardwick.

[blahblahblah]

Rivers played like poop. WRs played like poop. OL played not very good.

[Panama]

Like clockwork, we lose and this dude shows up.

You could fix things so that he can only post in the week following a win.

[MakoShark]

Cards play the screen pretty well. Their DB are really good at shedding blocks and making the open field tackles. Not sure the screens would have helped us that much. They won the game on the perimeter.

Besides that, I don't think we have any screens in the playbook. I looked for and did not see 1 single screen all of preseason. I'm talking a traditional screen, not those quick WR screens.