Upcoming Week 5 Game with Arizona

[Roy P]

Originally Posted by Nconroe

Their offense is ranked 15th at 335 yards per game. They are -2 on turnovers. Defensively Cardinals are ranked 20th giving up 360 yards per game.

Texans, if really for real, should make it close and perhaps win this one.

The Cards' defense allows 3.1 ypc and 79.7 ypg in terms of rushing ranking 6th in the NFL. Could that spell trouble for Steve Slaton? On the flip side, their pass defense gives up 280 ypg which ranks 30th. The cause could be that teams get into shoot outs with Kurt Warner and give up on the run and rely upon the passing game. On the other hand, teams may just find it easier to pass on this defense.

Based upon what Slaton has been able to do up to this point, I'd be creating a game plan that utilized a lot of formations that had at least 3 WRs. There would be situations in which I'd have TEs Daniels, Dreesen, and Casey as receivers and Slaton out wide. My offense would make defensive coordinators stay up late at night wondering if I would be bringing out even more tricks next week.

On defense, our Secondary of Reeves, Quinn, Robinson, Wilson, and Pollard should be able to hold their own. Bolden and Fitz are going to get some plays, but we have to be able to contain them somewhat by getting turnovers. I hope we run some blitzes up the middle with Ryans and Cushing to fluster Warner. Having the Nickleback (Quinn) or Pollard blitz a couple of times will also rattle their cages.

Hightower does not scare me. I hope they do run the ball with some degree of success, because they might be less likely to hit a deep ball on a pass play.