The Arizona Cardinals Offense Makes Them 7-1
By Omar Soussi
Let’s be honest people, no one expected this from the Arizona Cardinals. No one expected the Cards to go 7-1 and be the number one team in the NFC and possibly the whole NFL (it depends on who you ask). No one expected this team to be so great defensively with all the injuries they’ve sustained. And no one expected this squad to be so excellent on offense.
Arizona Cardinals are 2.5 games ahead of the rest of the division and a game and a half ahead of the next best team in the NFL. And they have done this with efficient play on offense and solid play on defense. In this post I really want to talk about their offense.
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On paper the offense isn’t going to make your jaw drop but they get the job done. I may have mentioned this already but their best trait is efficiency. They don’t turn the ball over, they don’t make mistakes and they make big plays when they need it most. They don’t have the firepower to blow other teams out but they make enough plays to win.
The Dallas game aside this team hasn’t really dominated anyone offensively. But winning is all the matters and they have no problem doing that.
This Arizona Cardinals team has many championship attributes. They will always be in the fight regardless of who they play. They won’t kill themselves with penalties or turnovers and put their defense in a bad spot. For those reasons, the Arizona Cardinals are good enough to make a playoff run.
On a team originally built around defense, the Arizona Cardinals offense is the main reason this team is 7-1. The offense makes enough plays to keep themselves in games, and at the closing moments (like with the Eagles) they find the way to win. This team will always be built around defense but its offense that is the true game changer and the big reason why the Cards are 7-1.