By Walter Mitchell Talk about a player who is fired up about his teammates, new coaches and the Arizona community, Paris Johnson Jr., in his interview with Bo Brack and Johnny Venerable on the PHNX Cardinals Podcast, lit the match to a blowtorch of jalapeno-hot takes about the 2026 Arizona Cardinals. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQLYNPP8POM&t=4704s The first order of business was to promote PJJ's charity "Putts for a Purpose" which took place last weekend, with the purpose being to raise enough money to build houses for military veterans and students who require financial aid. Paris is working in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity and hand in hand with Kurt Warner who has generously offered to furnish the first house upon its completion. When it came to talk about his boys, Paris Johnson Jr. was ecstatic about having the chance to elaborate in fine detail about the considerable talent the Cardinals have been building on offense. He's psyched t...
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.
Little did we know the Rams would be trading for Myles Garrett less than two hours after we finished recording the show haha
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