ARIZONA CARDINALS

Heap says Cardinals need to focus on the little things

Oct 10, 2011, 9:27 PM | Updated: 11:32 pm

Arizona Cardinals tight end Todd Heap didn’t play on
Sunday, but he was on the sideline.

Heap, who was out with a hamstring injury, believes the
team needs to stress attention to detail.

“I think you need to go back and look at things with a
finer tooth comb when you’ve lost four games in a row,”
Heap told Arizona Sports 620’s Burns and Gambo. “Obviously
you can cover up a lot of things by winning but when you
win a game that doesn’t mean everything was perfect.”

Heap thinks the team should go back to the basics to iron
out the details.

Another issue the tight end thinks the team needs to work
on is trust in each other.

“I think everybody needs a little more focus,” Heap said.
“It’s trusting that everybody is going to be doing what
they’re supposed to be doing on each play. I think that
definitely needs to improve.”

Along with the trust issues Heap believes mental
inconsistency is handicapping the team.

“If you take all 11 guys and say ‘Okay this guy is going
to have a mental error on this play and every guy has one
play or two plays’ that’s literally every play in the
game,” Heap said. “So it’s all 11 guys being on the same
page, if you take care of the little details and that
builds consistency and everybody needs to look at
themselves and say ‘how can I do that?'”

Even though the Cardinals have struggled, Heap is still
excited about where this team can go.

“Well I haven’t lost that yet,” Heap said about being
happy that he’s a Cardinal. “I don’t think I’m sitting
here all down on everything. It is frustrating, but you
look at three of the games and it was a couple plays here
and there and you got to change that culture to where
those plays are falling in your favor.”

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