Vinny & Skinny: Cardinals’ win over Jaguars filled with promising signs
Nov 29, 2017, 1:44 PM
There were things to like about the Arizona Cardinals against the Jacksonville Jaguars, who by the way, aren’t too shabby of a team.
Among the best developments for Arizona in a 27-24 win was its defense looking aggressive and shutting down Jacksonville’s running game.
This week, the opponents visiting University of Phoenix Stadium are the NFC West-leading Los Angeles Rams led by quarterback Jared Goff and running back Todd Gurley. In the Week 13 edition of the Vinny & Skinny show presented by Arizona Central Credit Union, Vince Marotta and Mike Jurecki discussed how the Cardinals can build on their best performance of the year after an up-and-down couple of weeks since quarterback Carson Palmer was injured in London.
“I got the impression being in the locker room last week that all of the pub was about Jacksonville’s defense,” Jurecki said. “Hopefully, the Cardinals use the same kind of energy and juice coming out against the Rams because they have a much better quarterback than Blake Bortles.”
Against Jacksonville, Arizona’s success went beyond the defensive performance. Cardinals quarterback Blaine Gabbert made up for two turnovers with pinpoint, clutch tosses to set up a 57-yard Phil Dawson field goal that won the game, and several young players given snaps helped the veterans along the way.
They’ll need everything clicking when facing a Rams team that beat Arizona 33-0 in London.
“Bruce Arians started his postgame press conference by saying, ‘Don’t bury us yet,'” Marotta said of the Cardinals’ win over the Jaguars. “This would be a real opportunity to make another statement with another signature win against a good football team and lend some more credence to that, ‘Hey, we’re not dead yet, we’re still in this race.'”
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