The Arizona Cardinals had their worst game of the season on Sunday, losing 27-0 to the Cleveland Browns. It was their sixth consecutive loss and an awful offensive performance.
What can we take away from such an ugly loss?
We go over it below.
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Apparently it could be worse than Josh Dobbs
As bad as things seemed with Josh Dobbs at quarterback, what we saw from Tune and the offense against Cleveland was far worse.
The Cardinals only had 58 yards of offense. Tune was sacked seven times and turned the ball over three times. They went 1-for-12 on third down.
The running backs were bad
Tune led the team with 28 rushing yards but the players who lined up on the backfield were not productive. Keaontay Ingram, Tony Jones and Rondale Moore combined to rush for 13 yards on 16 carries, less than a yard per attempt.
The run defense wasn't bad
The Browns did rush for 113 yards but it was on 40 attempts, 2.9 yards per carry. And if we look at only the running backs, it was 91 yards on 37 attempts, 2.46 yards per attempt.
More O-line injuries
Elijah Wilkinson is on injured reserve. Trystan Colon missed the game with a calf injury. D.J. Humphries and Will Hernandez both left the game in the second half with injuries.
Jonathan Gannon doesn't want to talk about Kyler Murray yet
Coming off the field, Gannon did not have an update about Murray and said he didn’t want to think about whether Murray will play next week.
Of course, he was processing the present and will have tomorrow to make a plan for Sunday.
While he doesn’t want to think about Murray, every Cardinals fan is thinking about him and whether he is going to play.
