Six of the Cardinals’ 17 games in 2024 will be against teams who hired new head coaches this offseason.
The NFL has wrapped up its new head coaching cycle. All eight teams who needed to hire a head coach has done so. The last to do so were the Washington Commanders, who are hiring Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn.
The eight new head coaches in the NFL in 2024 are as follows:
Dan Quinn, Washington Commanders
Mike Macdonald, Seattle Seahawks
Raheem Morris, Atlanta Falcons
Dave Canales, Carolina Panthers
Jim Harbaugh, Los Angeles Chargers
Brian Callahan, Tennessee Titans
Antonio Pierce, Las Vegas Raiders
Jerod Mayo, New England Patriots
Of those new head coaches, the Arizona Cardinals will face five of them in 2024 in six games.
The latest edition of the podcast is live! Revenge of the Birds’ Seth Cox and I react to the Arizona Cardinals’ loss to the Los Angeles Chargers and give our top three good and bad things from the game.
We talk about Sean Payton and the rumors surrounding the Cardinals’ coaching situation.
We talk about the Cardinals’ bye week plans and then go over Kliff Kingsbury’s job security.
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Peterson claims that Murray doesn’t care about anyone else other than himself, but did take Murray’s comments completely out of context.
Minnesota Vikings cornerback Patrick Peterson played a decade for the Arizona Cardinals but his time with the team did not end well. He continues to carry a grudge against general manager Steve Keim.
In the latest edition of his podcast, “All Things Covered,” together with former Cardinals cornerback Bryant McFadden, Peterson had strong comments about quarterback Kyler Murray, general manager Steve Keim and coach Kliff Kingsbury.
He accused Murray of being selfish and said Kingsbury will be scapegoat for Arizona’s problems.
McFadden asked Peterson about the Cardinals’ coaching situation and whether Kingsbury would become the scapegoat after the season.
“Ain’t no maybe,” he said. “He will be, and the crazy thing is the guy who hired him will still have a job.”
Peterson was, of course, referring to general manager Steve Keim, with whom he has a beef for how his situation in free agency was handled in 2020.
But he didn’t stop there.
He made it clear that he thinks Murray is selfish, based on postgame comments he made.
“Kyler Murray don’t care about nobody but Kyler Murray,” he said.
The comments were made in response to Murray saying they were “schematically (expletive)” after Sunday’s loss.
That, though was taken way out of context by both McFadden and Peterson.
They claimed Murray was calling out Kingsbury’s offense and the scheme. That wasn’t the case.
Murray was responding to a question about a failed fourth-down play on Sunday that resulted in an interception. It was “schematically (expletive)” because the Chargers blew up the play.
Peterson, a former teammate of Murray, would know things many others don’t about Murray, although he was only with the team Murray’s first two years in the league.
But every time Peterson opens up his mouth and comments something about Arizona, whether or not what he is saying is accurate, it is clear he simply has an ax to grind and is using his platform to grind it.
Check out how the Cardinals’ 66 defensive snaps were split up against the Chargers.
In the Arizona Cardinals’ 25-24 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, the defense was on the field for 66 snaps. Interestingly, the offense and defense played an equal number of snaps, something I don’t think I have seen.
How were the snaps divided up? Below, we go over the individual snap counts for each player who played in the game and give any observations to be taken from the numbers.
Both Murray and Kingsbury downplayed the notion of any tension between them in their relationship.
Sunday morning, it was reported that the relationship between Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury and quarterback Kyler Murray was tense but that, over the two weeks Murray was out with a hamstring injury, things were hashed out and communicated.
Both Kingsbury and Murray deny that there is anything wrong with their relationship.
After the team’s 25-24 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers Sunday, Kingsbury said, “we’re good,” regarding his relationship with Murray.
Murray took it further.
“There was no tension,” he said. “Between me and him though, we’re good.”
Based on what both say, any frustration is about how the season has gone and not an internal division between the two.
“This whole season has not gone the way anyone wanted or envisioned it to go,” Murray said.
“When you’re not winning obviously everybody’s going to be a little on edge,” Kingsbury said, and then praised Murray for his performance and his belief he will continue to play at a high level.
Kingsbury said the conversations between the two are about team improvement. “That’s it. We know we’re missing some pieces offensively, but we talk about how we can utilize what we have and what’s the best way to do that,” he said.
The season has not gone the way anyone had hoped. It’s good to hear that there aren’t problems between coach and quarterback.
Kyler Murray told reporters that the play was schematically blown up and should not have been a throw to DeAndre Hopkins.
One of the key plays in the Arizona Cardinals’ 25-24 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers was a fourth-down interception Kyler Murray threw in the second quarter.
It was fourth down with less than a yard to go at their own 34-yard line.
Instead of simply running the ball, Murray attempted a pass down the field to DeAndre Hopkins. Derwin James picked it off.
After the game, when Murray was asked about the play, he explained that it wasn’t even supposed to be a throw to Hopkins. It was just what happened because “schematically, we were (expletive).”
The Ringer’s Benjamin Solak explained what went wrong on Twitter. The Chargers wrecked the play and there was perhaps a small mistake made.
The play was a run-pass option (RPO). Murray didn’t hand the ball off because the Chargers sold out on the run.
Tight end Trey McBride runs a route to the left in the flat, where the ball should go and they pick up a yard or two. Easy stuff.
Marquise Brown and DeAndre Hopkins run down the field to occupy defenders.
However, Chargers safety Alohi Gilman was ready for the play. He drops back early before the snap, making it look like McBride would be wide open.
However, he reads the play and breaks in to cover him.
In a perfect scenario, Hopkins would see it and rub off him to start his route, creating just a sliver of separation.
He didn’t, Gilman had McBride covered, and so Murray had nowhere to go. His only chance was to throw it up to Hopkins, hoping he could make a play. James made the play for the interception.
Gilman read the play and the Chargers blew it up, keeping the Cardinals from extending the drive when they were moving the ball well. If the Cardinals convert on that play and score points in that possession, the Chargers probably are unable to pick up the last minute-win.
He had 140 total yards from scrimmage and a touchdown in his first 100-yard rushing game with the Cardinals.
The Arizona Cardinals lost on Sunday to the Los Angeles Chargers 25-24 but got a huge game from running back James Conner. He had his best game as a member of the Cardinals.
He rushed for 120 yards on 25 attempts and added three receptions for 20 yards and a touchdown. In all, it was 140 yards from scrimmage.
It was his first-ever 100-yard rushing game as a member of the Cardinals.
Check out his best plays from the game in the video below.
Check out our studs and duds from Week 12’s home loss to the Los Angeles Chargers.
Sitting at 4-8 on the season, the Arizona Cardinals will not be making the postseason and are in the beginning stages of major change.
While there were little to no hopes to begin with, the Cards needed to win this game to have an outside shot at a playoff birth. The remaining schedule is pretty light, so there was still a small chance.
Instead, the Cards choked away a game they were winning by 7 for most of the fourth quarter. Chargers QB Justin Herbert found Austin Ekeler for a touchdown late and then tight end Gerald Everett for the game-winning two-point conversion.
There were a couple of studs in the game for Arizona, but there were more duds.
