Season Recap: Arizona Cardinals

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Season Recap: Arizona Cardinals

OVERVIEW:

The Arizona Cardinals got out to a rough start to their season going 3-6 in the season's first half.  Many probably wrote this team off, hell......the coach himself was about to mail it in and worry about draft positioning. Instead though, Coach Cash realized that hitting the power button and only taking the field every 3rd day or so was not gonna result in success in the SFL. So, he got back to the drawing board and started to do what he does best, and that is generate offense. Coach knew that because his defense is broken and can't generate stops, he was gonna have to score and score a lot. Coach ended the season with 8 straight wins to finish 11-6 and get into the playoffs as the #6 seed. They would fall to the Green Bay Packers 53-47 during a snow storm in the wild card round.

DEFENSE:

This defense generated 36 total QB tackles with 18 of those by way of a sim. So, this team had 18 QB tackles in 12 games played. That is a disgusting number. The "All Pro" Chandler Jones got a whopping ONE QB tackle in the 12 games that Coach got to play. Coach just doesn't understand seeing teams generate pressure at the rate they do while his team seems to be sleeping at the snap. The Arizona Cardinals also lost their best defensive player in Budda Baker during a week 16 sim due to lack of communication from the opponent. He was greatly missed during the snow storm. At the end of the day, this defense is slow on the outside and generally just not very good. 

OFFENSE:

The offense in general was not terrible to start the season minus whatever that was when Arizona played the Houston Texans. However, it was not good either. Coach would eventually get it together. The last 5 games he was able to coach.....his offense averaged 601 yards of offense, 56 PPG, and average margin of victory was by 28 points. During that same span, Kyler Murray had a 21:1 touchdown to interception ratio. With that said, like most Coaches will tell you, "Team still wasn't good enough. That is why we were watching from our couch" *Malek voice. The Cardinals' offense is excited to see what a full 17 game slate might look like. 

OFF-SEASON:

Due to the team's prior GM, the Cardinals actually enter the off-season unable to trade any tradeable player. JJ Watt carries a 1 year, $15.9 million price tag left on his deal with $15.4 million being in bonus money. The Cardinals will now move their focus to FA where they carry a nice surplus of funds and the NFL draft. This team carries many needs, so they will not be focusing on any specific position group.

2022 SEASON:

The Cardinals are again, excited to see what a full 17 game slate might look like. Coach Cash believes the NFC West just might be the best division in the NFC. I am sure some over there in the South and a couple over there in the East beg to differ. Season 2 should be fun as the Cardinals plan to compete with who Coach believes is one of the top owners in the league in Bryce and the San Francisco 49ers. His season one success speaks for itself. Coach expects their next two battles to be must watch TV. One last shout out to the Tennessee Titans......."It is ok if it is not your time." Keep your chin up buddy