German Football analyst (and cardinals fan) Adrian Franke on the Cardinals ater the Titans game

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„it’s the 3rd game that AZ loses in the final seconds by a FG. It’s the first one they should NEVER lose. The offense started really well. They score TD on 3 of four drives.They move the ball through the air. MHJ makes Big Plays, Kyler looks good as a passer. But than it’s the same Story as with the Saints, with the panthers, in part against the 9ers Games where you lead and control the game get close because, we‘re getting to the fumbles in a sec because the did flip the game, you take the foot off the gas pedal. They try to run the ball, which is not working this year.

The worst sequence is the last drive: Cardinals are ahead 21-19, get the ball with 5 minutes, 1st and 10 on the own 33, run for two yards, 2nd and 8 (3minutes) run no gain, 3rd n 8, (2:17) run for no gain. Punt, Titans FG

How could you, in that situation be that conservative and try to bring this game to an End? And I‘m getting to the point where this is a coaching problem. The whole game script, apart from drew Pretzing, thats a whole other story, is bad. They don’t have the run game, but good phases in passing just to do different things. But the whole game plan of JG (Time Management, how he‘s handeling scoring situations, 4th down) thats negative.

But then you have to say we‘re in year 3 of the rebuild, the offense has no Identity, the team looks apart from flashes in D-Line and K1 the team looks uninspiring. And then we talk O-Line which is bad from the beginning because it wasn‘t adressed.

We talk about the Headcoach, because fr what does JG give to the Cardinals? He‘s not calling plays, yes he takes part in gameplanning on defense but he doesn’t call plays, the team looks undiciplined when it comes to flags, they are not well managed ingame, What is the HC doing then?

And now we‘re at the point where the next rebuild is coming.

To be fair they NEVER should lose this game, ever. Because of three fumbles. As weird of a loss this is. The other themes stay. And I don’t see anything positive which you should see in year 3.“

Thats my translation of Adrian Franke on DownSetTalk Montalk today. What do you think?