Reactions to Cardinals dropping 7 of final 8 video games

The Arizona Cardinals misplaced huge to San Francisco after the 49ers took no time in any respect to get a giant play on the board.

They took the opening kickoff 98 yards and located the top zone on the following play. About 5 minutes later, Arizona already confronted a double-digit deficit.

That was earlier than Arizona set a franchise document for penalties, which at completely different factors gave San Francisco a free retry on a discipline purpose to finish the primary half and negated a landing that might’ve made it a one-score sport within the third quarter.

The 41-22 loss was the second straight blowout by a divisional opponent after Seattle received 44-22 the earlier week. Arizona has misplaced seven of its final eight after beginning 2-0.

Rapid reactions: Cardinals’ season continues to go down the drain

John Gambadoro, co-host of Burns & Gambo:

So that’s three hours of our lives we can’t get again. Pure torture watching this one as Arizona will get blown out by a divisional opponent for the second consecutive week.

Look I hate to say this, however this group is giving me 2024-25 Suns vibes. Just a tough group to look at, to get behind, to imagine in. One Cardinals fan on X tweeted me and mentioned “I hate this team” — that’s how plenty of Suns followers felt final season.

The Cardinals got here into this season with excessive expectations, however have carried out nothing however disappoint. The finish of this season can’t come quickly sufficient — it has been nothing however a misplaced yr because the accidents and losses mount. That the Cardinals had nothing to actually play for by Halloween and now for the following seven weeks we will likely be draft positioning is a testomony to only how dangerous this season has been. No one noticed this coming. At least nobody I do know. But right here we’re.

The Cardinals are 3-7 with seven video games left and are more likely to end with someplace between 4 and 6 wins. They have unofficially locked up final place within the NFC West.

The Suns wanted an entire reset and now the questions on what the Cardinals will want will occupy plenty of our effort and time over the following few months. The shut losses suck however you may reside with it to a sure extent. These final two weeks, down 35-0 to Seattle and down 35-10 to San Francisco is inexcusable.

The Cardinals are 0-4 within the division! They have two video games left in opposition to the first-place Rams so are we one other 0-6 within the division, which they did two years in the past? If that occurs, we’re three years of 15 losses in 18 division video games. Something has to offer right here. I ask myself what’s the identification of this soccer group? I don’t have a solution. Today, they set a franchise document for many penalties that dated to 1936. What I would like the Cardinals to be and what they’re proper now are simply full polar opposites. 

Dave Burns, co-host of Burns & Gambo:

For a second — a fleeting second — the Cardinals appeared like they had been ready to reply to final week’s humiliation in Seattle. After falling behind 13-0 vs. the 49ers (and giving up a sport opening 98-yard kickoff return), the Cardinals went on a drive that ended with a Bam Knight landing run. In that second, there was the faintest whiff of combat. But like this sport, it pale rapidly because the Cardinals slogged their manner by way of debilitating penalties, poor particular groups play, pricey turnovers and a few huge time defensive breakdowns.

Jonathan Gannon merely couldn’t afford to have this sort of an effort out of his group. He wanted to current a degree of preparedness that proved final week was the exception. Instead, final week now seems like the start of the top. And by that I don’t imply the season; that ended a while in the past. I’m speaking about Jonathan Gannon having the targeted consideration of his soccer group. If that has drifted out of sight with seven full video games remaining, the Cardinals might need to make a most sudden resolution.

This season was all the time going to be about ahead progress and the way a lot of it we (however largely they) would discover acceptable. Backwards was not on the desk. Now that it’s right here we’ll discover out quickly sufficient what the implications will likely be.

Tyler Drake, Cardinals reporter and co-host of Cardinals Corner:

I’m going to maintain this one quick and candy… Two dangerous divisional losses in two straight weeks. The wheels are significantly coming off for the Cardinals with no resolution in sight. Can this teaching employees make it by way of the season totally intact? It’s significantly up for debate after this one. The seat is undoubtedly getting heat.

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