Article Kliff Kingsbury's offense has been better than anyone could have predicted (1 Viewer)

[BiloxiSaint1]

Detailed article on our next opponent - the Arizona Cardinals. Take a look at the video cuts of the runs in the Giants game. Giants defenders aren't even attempting tackles in some cases. Our boys won't play like that.

By Steven Ruiz at usatoday.com

Even the most optimistic Kliff Kingsbury enthusiast could not have seen this coming. I would know. I was one of those people touting Kingsbury as the next offensive thinker whose ideas would change the NFL, but even I expected the Cardinals to be one of the worst teams in the league. Sure, the scheme would be good — or, at the very least, fun — but Arizona’s roster was a barren wasteland, devoid of talent in the trenches and a true receiving threat on the outside.

Seven weeks into the NFL season, I can confidently say I was wrong about that. The Cardinals, who climbed back to .500 on Sunday with a 27-21 win over the Giants, have not been one of the worst teams in the league; and while I was more right than wrong about the talent thing, Kingsbury’s approach to calling plays has helped mitigate that enough to where Arizona has produced like an average NFL offense. Based on Expected Points Added, the Cardinals have had a better offense than the Patriots, Saints, Rams, Browns, Chargers and Eagles. As we all expected.



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[St.Fury]

Timing, spread offense. You have to find ways to disrupt the timing. Think about how teams like Seattle have given us trouble in the past. Pressure the QB, but keep him in the pocket, forcing him to get rid of the ball early. mixing In press-man coverage, disrupting the WR routes can also help. Bottom line, our D will have to be on their A game.

Oh, and crowd noise.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Timing, spread offense. You have to find ways to disrupt the timing. Think about how teams like Seattle have given us trouble in the past. Pressure the QB, but keep him in the pocket, forcing him to get rid of the ball early. mixing In press-man coverage, disrupting the WR routes can also help. Bottom line, our D will have to be on their A game.

Oh, and crowd noise.

Gotta be physical as hell with their receivers off of the line. And often times you'll concede a few short crossers and pick routes to make sure you don't get beat deep. The best defenses in the Big XII since the air raid and spread have become ubiquitous have been those that bend but don't break. Keep everything in front of you, tackle well, and make them move the sticks 5 or 6 times to score a touchdown. It can be a little frustrating at times, as your defense will concede some yards in the effort to not give up big plays. But you're banking that at some point you'll make a play, the QB will miss or make the wrong read, or they'll get a negative yardage play. The offense needs an elite, elite QB to move the chains 10-12 yards at a time all the way down the field (see: Drew Brees). They don't have one (yet).

This is going to be a game where a bunch of people in the game day thread are griping that we're playing 5 yards off the WRs.

But the most important thing in stopping the air raid is to have a defensive line with the ability to create pressure on the QB without sending a bunch of blitzers. That allows you to sit back in 7 and even 8 man zones. Know any team that can do that?

 

[GilFinnerty]

Soon as there is enough tape, NFL coordinators shut it down. He be back in college in couple years.

 

[St.Fury]

Gotta be physical as hell with their receivers off of the line. And often times you'll concede a few short crossers and pick routes to make sure you don't get beat deep. The best defenses in the Big XII since the air raid and spread have become ubiquitous have been those that bend but don't break. Keep everything in front of you, tackle well, and make them move the sticks 5 or 6 times to score a touchdown. It can be a little frustrating at times, as your defense will concede some yards in the effort to not give up big plays.

But the most important thing in stopping the air raid is to have a defensive line with the ability to create pressure on the QB without sending a bunch of blitzers. Know any team that can do that?

Funny that you mention that. our DL has been very good at that very thing. I’m not sure where it came from, but there was a stat posted recently where we were in the top 5 dlines at creating pressure with just the front 4.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Funny that you mention that. our DL has been very good at that very thing. I’m not sure where it came from, but there was a stat posted recently where we were in the top 5 dlines at creating pressure with just the front 4.

Yup. If you were to conjure up a DL that is perfect to stop the air raid by creating pressure without blitzes and being able to contain a mobile QB, it would look pretty much exactly like our line. They're also disciplined and well coached enough to shut down the RPO like they did at Seattle.

 

[St.Fury]

Soon as there is enough tape, NFL coordinators shut it down. He be back in college in couple years.

Typically, it only takes 1 team to “figure them out”. Once that’s on tape, others will follow suit.

 

[insidejob]

Their offense has only been so successful because of the pitiful quality of their opponents in their wins. They beat the Eli led Giants by 6. Falcons by ONE POINT in a shootout that they should have lost. And also had a shootout with the hapless Bungles who they beat by 3.

Every team with a half decent defense they've faced, they've lost to. Only one of their losses is under a TD. The other two are by 18 and 17 points. (Seattle and Carolina)

Our DL is going to beat Murray to a pulp - as well as a blitzing DD.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Soon as there is enough tape, NFL coordinators shut it down. He be back in college in couple years.

Depends. If you've got an elite coach and an elite QB, nobody is shutting it down at any level. The Chiefs would be an example of that. Oklahoma would be an example at the college level - nobody has really shut them down, even SEC teams (the Sooners' problem is their horrible defense).

But Kingsbury is not an elite coach and Murray is not an elite QB. So, yeah..

In terms of KK getting sent back to college, for his sake, I hope not. After Texas Tech canned him, he couldn't even find a head coaching gig. He was going to be an offensive coordinator at USC before the Cardinals decided to hire him in a really bizarre attempt to replicate Sean McVay. Dude pulled off one of the greatest "failing upwards" stunts in football history.

 

[St.Fury]

Yup. If you were to conjure up a DL that is perfect to stop the air raid by creating pressure without blitzes and being able to contain a mobile QB, it would look pretty much exactly like our line. They're also disciplined and well coached enough to shut down the RPO like they did at Seattle.

bTW, Footballoutsiders has their OL ranked as 13th. But, Dal, Hou, and TB are ranked ahead of them. I think we can get to them.

2019 NFL OFFENSIVE LINE RATINGS | Football Outsiders

Regular season totals, playoffs not included Revised as of 3/29/2020 Teams are ranked according to Adjusted Line Yards. Based on regression analysis, the Adjusted Line Yards formula takes all running back carries and assigns responsibility to the offensive line based on the following percentages:

www.footballoutsiders.com

 

[superchuck500]

Cardinals have three wins: Bengals (0-7, 32nd D YPG), Falcons (1-6, 27th D YPG), Giants (2-5, 28th D YPG).

They haven't played a top 10 defense yet. They have played two top 15 defenses, Carolina and Baltimore. The Cards lost both games. They totaled 349 yards versus Carolina (20 total rushing yards) and 248 yards against the Ravens.

 

[ANKOMA33]

Patrick Petersen didn't look rusty last week vs the Giants.

His coverage skills are still elite.

 

[Infoman]

Keep KM in the pocket... Hands up in the passing lanes... Play tight in the zones and disguise coverage... "A gap" blitz when the down and distance are right... The game plan really isn't all that complicated this week for our defense.

 

[bobad]

We must make Murray see ghosts.

 

[insidejob]

Cardinals have three wins: Bengals (0-7, 32nd D YPG), Falcons (1-6, 27th D YPG), Giants (2-5, 28th D YPG).

They haven't played a top 10 defense yet. They have played two top 15 defenses, Carolina and Baltimore. The Cards lost both games. They totaled 349 yards versus Carolina (20 total rushing yards) and 248 yards against the Ravens.

Exactly. And they got blown out by Carolina and Seattle by 17 and 18 points. Their only win by less than 7 was the Eli led Giants in week one when there was zero tape on their offense.