Clayton Tune: The Fateful Path of an NFL Legacy by Walter Mitchell photo: @azcardinals.com via Instagram During the second night of the 2023 NFL Draft, Clayton Tune received a call from the Green Bay Packers. The Packers wanted to assure Clayton of their interest in drafting the University of Houston quarterback at some point on day three. When the Arizona Cardinals selected Clayton Tune with the #139 pick a day later, he was surprised, given that the Cardinals had not expressed any significant interest in him during the pre-draft process. The Cardinals were not one of the six teams that brought him in for 30 visits (Texans, Saints, Browns, Steelers, Bucs, Giants). Tune had also been given a private workout by the Rams. The eventual link the Cardinals had to Clayton Tune was that Israel Woolfork was one of his coaches at the Senior Bowl. At that time, Woolfork had just finished his second year of a Bill Walsh/Bill Willis coaching fellowship with the Cleveland Browns. A...
Wow, the Rams are not messing around
ReplyDeleteThanks for the thorough breakdown...
ReplyDeleteHere are my thoughts after watching you break down the Rams games (which IMO was a fairly representative of Cardinals 2025 season)
(i) To end 2024 season and begin the 2025 season people were questioning Petzings offense and praising Rallis Defense.
(ii) Injuries played a role more on offense than on defense in my opinion (CB was pretty decimated on Defense, but on offense we lost starting QB and top 3 RB's as well as half the OL for most of season)
(1) Breakdown on offense shows just how Petzings offense became competent to spite losing running game as offense was at least present and keeping the team in a game. The issue was Kyler Murray more than Petzing is what I was left with after watching Brissett play final 12 games.
(2) Breakdown on Defense shows how the coaching of defense was really a problem (maybe we didn't have the CB staff to run man-to-man, but we didn't run man-to-man when we had healthy room). Our DL struggled in getting off blocks (see Rams wall against or DL), failure to stop run game was result. Edge players are out of position (you have to play with eyes/mind open to adjust to play actually called). Missed tackles = poor coaching (the play you highlighted with Will Johnson is endemic of todays CB's trying to rip ball free than make a tackle); you have to stop the runner/play-maker. That was true of most RAC plays where their play-maker just keeps legs moving while are LB/DB's are trying to rip ball away.
Of course we retained Rallis.
Brissett, if healthy should be our starting QB. He earned the right when he finished out the season (saving Cardinals 160M last year, because we all know Kyler would have been on injured). In my opinioni, Brissett earned his pay raise for a year. He is Cardinals best chance at winning with him at QB. But most people are thinking the Cardinals are going to tank the season. Which to me sounds more like Bidwill than any football GM or coach.