Louisville Cardinals: Keys To The Season, Top Game, Top Transfer, Fun Stats
Louisville Cardinals: Key To The 2022 Offense
Be better in the second half of games.
It wasn’t the offense’s fault the D couldn’t do anything in the fourth quarter.
Louisville allowed just 45 points in the third quarters of games and got rocked for 126 in the fourth. In too many close games the team came up just short, but the offense also has to do its part to finish.
The O wasn’t bad late, but it scored 176 points in the second half after rolling up 235 in the first. The attack will move, but for a team that struggled to put the biscuit in the basket over the second half of the season, consistently getting at least 35 points is a must.
The scoring has to come over a full four quarters.
Louisville Cardinals: Key To The 2022 Defense
Get nastier in the red zone.
Generating more pressure would be nice. That would help with the massive problem of allowing way too many first downs, but overall the defense should be better with the transfers coming in to boost the starting 11. Now the D has to be better at coming up with stops inside the 20.
Offenses scored 90% of the time on the Cardinals when they got in the red zone. That’s not the end of the world, and the 32 touchdowns on 49 drives wasn’t that awful. The problem was allowing teams to get into the red zone in the first place, and then allowing touchdowns in bunches.
Kentucky went 5-for-5 on scoring TDs inside the 20 in its 52-21 win. Ole Miss started out the season with five touchdowns inside the red zone, and Virginia won 34-33 helped by four scores after getting inside the 20.
Louisville Cardinals: Key Player To The 2022 Season
DT Jermayne Lole, Sr.
The Cardinals are bringing in several good transfers who’ll play big roles right away – watch out for WR Tyler Hudson from Central Arkansas – but the defensive front got itself a star in Lole.
The former Arizona State All-Pac-12 performer missed all of last year with a triceps injury, but he’s back and ready to roll. He’s the 300-pounder the Cardinal line is missing, and he can get in the backfield with 11 career sacks and 20 tackles for loss to go along with his 122 stops. He’s one of the key transfers, as is …
Louisville Cardinals: Key Transfer
LB Momo Sanogo, Sr.
The Cardinals need more help at outside linebacker, and in comes Sanogo from Ole Miss.
A star in 2018, he made 112 tackles and 6.5 tackles for loss, missed almost all of 2019, came back and was strong in 2020, and was out of the mix for most of 2021 with just 25 tackles. Now the 6-1, 227-pounder should step right in for the Cardinals and lead them in stops.
Louisville Key Game To The 2022 Season
Florida State, Sept. 16
Louisville starts out the season at Syracuse and at UCF – neither of those are sure things, and 0-2 right out of the gate wouldn’t be a shocker. The home opener is against Florida State, and it’s this simple – lose, and the season is over.
Why?
The next two ACC games are on the road at Boston College and Virginia, and the second half of the season is tougher than the first. The Cardinals can win a few of the later games, but a loss to FSU would be a big, big problem.
Louisville Cardinals: 2021 Fun Stats
– Average Yards Per Carry: Louisville 5.4 – Opponents 4.4
– Sacks: Louisville 33 for 219 yards – Opponents 20 for 102 yards
– 3rd Quarter Points Allowed: 45 – 4th Quarter Points Allowed: 126
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