Arizona Cardinals: Tyrann Mathieu and Players to Watch vs. Bears

His special teams mistake is something he said he can’t do.

They’re on their second coach. “He lets you know”. He’ll have a tougher time against a Cardinals defense that features All Pros in cornerback Patrick Peterson and defensive end Calais Campbell. Touchdown (then) check-down mentality.

This is another case for the Bears where the roster talents just don’t stack up equally.

Arians admits it doesn’t always work. A defense that ranked among the worst in franchise history the past two years has a different look, with a revised roster and a switch from a 4-3 scheme to a 3-4.

Robby Baker: Well the good news for Cardinals fans is that Ellington’s PCL sprain is only expected to keep him out a few weeks, and Arians said Monday he won’t rule him out for Sunday’s matchup with Chicago.

Still, Arians would rather be overzealous than conservative, and the late-game aggressiveness may be correlating to success.

They have a new general manager in Ryan Pace and coach in John Fox after firing Phil Emery and Marc Trestman following last year’s collapse.

Those throws really impressed ESPN’s Ron Jaworski, who joined Burns & Gambo on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM and discussed how the Arizona Cardinals played in their win and the great play of Palmer.

Arguable the Bears best player and an athletic monster, Kyle long did not have himself the best of games as he made his transition to right tackle.

It helps schematically when the opponent can’t rely on conventional wisdom to counteract a plan. Running back Andre Ellington won’t play due to a knee injury, and Chris Johnson will step in as their starter.

Forte had this to say immediately following the game, “The mentality of this offense, which I’m proud of, is nobody had that stupid look on their face [when down 31-16] like before.” Palmer threw for 307 yards, and the team gained another 120 on the ground. His quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger, was 9-of-18 for 119 yards and two interceptions. On the other hand, Bears chairman George McCaskey at one point called Arizona home, as he earned both his bachelor’s and law degrees from Arizona State University in Tempe. “Obviously another guy that knows where the ball needs to go, high intelligence, good accuracy, ball out quick”. “Their defense was doing some good things toward the end of the game and we needed a first down to close it out. You can only put them in position to play”.

“Everything that they got, we gave them, as far as miscues and certain things”, inside linebacker Kevin Minter said.

But consider: When I first noted that Cutler had not turned the ball over through the first week-and-a-half of training-camp practices, the dismissive reaction was amusing, as though simply reporting the fact was somehow a statement that there was another “new” Jay Cutler in town.