Cardinals' Pass Defense Barometer is a Key to Winning photo by @azcentral.com By Walter Mitchell As many of you know, for a couple of years now, because of how alarming it was to see the Cardinals' defense so rarely get their hands on the football, I started keeping what I call the PDB (Pass Defense Barometer). The formula for each game is simple: Interceptions + Pass Breakups = PCB Last season, the Cardinals' defense was 31st in the NFL in PDB at a paltry sum of 9 interceptions + 26 PBUs = 35. Only the Titans were worse at 11 + 19 = 30. What was so encouraging about the way the Cardinals' defense was playing in their wins over the Saints and Panthers was their PDBs were 10 and 10. Think about that --- in two games the Cardinals PDB was 20 which was already 57% of what the entire PD...
