Impressions from Sun Devil Stadium

[big dog cowboy]

Thanks Sitting Bull! Nice feedback for someone like me who had to listen to the game.

[theWave21]

Is it me, or was the center/quarterback exchange in slow motion? It seemed like the Cardinals DE's had two steps across the line of scrimmage before our QB's even had the ball.

[Yakuza Rich]

He appeared to be playing our infamous "read and engage" style on every play, even obvious passing downs, and looked tentative to me. We have no business lining him up like LT if we aren't going to turn him loose sometimes

I wasn't worried about that too much. Even though Zimmer likes to use that "read and engage" style, Ware is playing a slightly new position and will have to learn how to play the run and drop back in coverage. Could be that Parcells and Zimmer know that Ware can rush the passer, but he needs work in run defense and coverage. Better have him working on it in a meaningless preseason game instead of worrying about sacking the passer.

The fact is, they hardly blitzed at all on defense and Arizona was using a lot of short dropbacks.

Rich........