Last Year's Browns Game

I'm sure Drew Petzing, Arizona Cardinals Offensive Coordinator, remembers last year's Browns versus Commanders game. Here's a short trip down memory lane for you.

This should give you an idea what plays you might see called this upcoming weekend. I call this line of thinking "conceptuals". Coaching conceptions running in the background of a football game like computer programs. The Unconscious Mind of Football. The subliminal mental reps that occur in the underlying chess game that coaches play in football. 

From a conceptuals stand point, Arizona can beat Washington. The critique of conceptuals analysis would be "Yeah, but the Cardinals don't have the Browns roster." They have no Nick Chubb. No Deshaun Watson. No Amari Cooper.

And the Commanders have no Carson Wentz.

The Cardinals do have Drew Terrell. Ex-Commanders receiving coach. They have Jonathan Gannon whose Eagles Defense contained the Commander running game in another Carson Wentz incident in the which the running game had to be there.

The Cardinals don't have the Eagles Defense.

I don't see the Cardinals matching up well against the Commander Offense. I don't think Eric Bieniemy is going to give up on the running game if it strikes gold. The passing game should also do well against the Cardinals. But I do think the Cardinals can, CAN, move the ball on the Washington Defense. 

I don't like the Media, both National and D.C., viewing the Cardinals as Trash Incarnate. If the past four years are any indication, the Washington Defense is going to start slow and take a while to get the carburetor clean. 

If there is to be a shock, it will be in the form of the Cardinals Offense running the ball and maximizing RPOs which will put points on the board. 

If the Commanders share the obnoxious disrespect the Media has for the Arizona Cardinals, they will find a way to lose. 

The Commanders Offense is the Most Likely to Succeed in the game and they are going to need that success mindset to compensate for what I'm expecting to be a shameful, disrespectful defensive effort. 

This is I'm afraid going to be reminiscent of the Old Denver Broncos under Dan Reeves where Elway/Howell has to conduct a Drive to win the ball game.

Hopefully not. But the tea leaves look awful.