Rapid reactions: Cardinals keep winning form going in annihilation of Jets

The Arizona Cardinals continued a trend on Sunday of dominant showings at home, with the latest instance being a 31-6 beatdown of Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets.

It was the third straight home game without Arizona’s defense giving up a touchdown, and its offense rattled off three to begin the game and score on its first five possessions.

With Kyler Murray putting forth another impressive showing in the face of adversity, the game’s outcome was never in doubt.

How did Arizona Sports hosts and writers react to the Cardinals’ win over Jets?

Dave Burns, co-host of Burns & Gambo: All the Bears and Jets needed was a little push – one little push – to send them into the abyss. Everyone could see it. Once the Cardinals beat the Dolphins it was hard not to think they were in prime position to go into the bye week with a 6-4 record. The Bears, coming off their Hail Mary loss to the Commanders and the Jets (because they’re the Jets) were fragile. The moment they got punched in the mouth they would topple. Boy did they get punched and boy… did they topple.

Kyler Murray had an incredible game, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see him show up as a top-five quarterback on some lists this week. The connection with Marvin Harrison Jr. is getting better, Trey McBride plays the position like an animal, the play calling was on point and once the Cardinals defense got a red zone stop or two, you could just see the Jets attention span start to dwindle like a teenager with an iPhone. The Cardinals kept their foot on the gas just as Jonathan Gannon said they would, and this game was over halfway through the third quarter. Now the Cards roll into the bye week in first place in the NFC West and in a great spot.

The big takeaway here is the emergence of the young guys. Garrett Williams, Star Thomas, Trey Benson, Max Melton, Rabbit Taylor-Demerson and others are all continuing to grow and improve. It’s a win-now, win-later proposition. The Cards are in a great position to make the playoffs right now now but their ability to sustain it lies in Monti Ossenfort’s ability to draft well every year. If he’s figured that out then this truly could be the start of something special.

John Gambadoro, co-host of Burns & Gambo: Now we are there. With a thoroughly dominant performance against a bad New York Jets team the Arizona Cardinals moved to two games over .500 at 6-4, remained in first place in the NFC West, saw their playoff projections boom to 55% and put themselves in a position where not making the playoffs would be a disappointment.

Having won five of their past six games following a 1-3 start, the Cardinals will be playing meaningful football games in December, and two of those games will be against bad football teams in New England and Carolina. What a ride. What a turnaround. What a remarkable job by Monti Ossenfort, Jonathon Gannon and this football team.

Today they bullied the Jets all over the football field – truly pummeled them. If this was a boxing match the referee would have called it early to save the opponent from taking more of a beating. Kyler Murray was spectacular as he went 22-of-24 for 266 yards with a touchdown pass and ran for two touchdowns. He once again did not throw an interception. He has only been picked off three times all season. Once again, we saw an elite level Kyler as he becoming the consistently good quarterback that this team needs him to be. He set a franchise record with 17 straight completions. He led the Cardinals on three straight 70-yard touchdown drives to start the game and they scored on their first five possessions – 4 touchdowns and one field goal.

This is a good football team. The defense was outstanding again – they pitched another end zone shutout. They have not given up a touchdown since the fourth quarter of the Miami game on Oct. 27 – that is no touchdowns for Chicago and none for the Jets. That is quite remarkable when you think about it. They held the Jets to 207 yards, including just 128 passing for Aaron Rodgers. If anything this game should have Rodgers contemplating retirement! Now the bye week. Rest up, get some guys healthy and get this team to the playoffs.

Tyler Drake, lead Cardinals writer and co-host of Cardinals Corner: Maybe all the Cardinals needed was that ugly Packers loss to kick into gear, because what we’ve seen since from this football team has been something else.

It was another dominant home game showing for Arizona on both sides of the football. The defense stepped up with another game allowing no touchdowns. That’s 12 straight quarters now.

Then you have the offense, which can legitimately beat you whichever way when it is rolling. A lot of that starts with James Conner and Kyler Murray, who effectively flexed their playmaking muscles on Sunday.

It’s now onto the bye week where the Cardinals can get back even more reinforcements before Week 12’s game vs. Seattle.

Buckle up, Cards fans. Things could get really interesting the rest of the way

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