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After the Raiders managed just 56 yards on the ground, the Cardinals rank first in the league in run defense, a fact that will be severely tested by Philadelphia's LeSean McCoy and Dallas' DeMarco Murray.
He said there isn't a team on Arizona's schedule that the Cardinals can't beat or that can't beat them.
"Defensively,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, this was our best game as far as mental errors," Arians said, "but offensively, we still continue to run a route short, line up wrong, do some things that are uncalled for. We need to sharpen ourselves up offensively. We had a sack because of a miscommunication on who the 'Mike' linebacker was. Little things like that are hurting us offensively."
"Our goal has just been preaching,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, 'Win the West, win the West,'" Foote said. "We've got a good start right now."
Offensively,Cheap Jerseys, Arizona was able to move the ball on the ground better than it had all season. Andre Ellington finished with 88 yards rushing in 24 attempts and caught six passes for 72 yards. Stepfan Taylor carried 12 times for 40 yards and a score and caught two for 17 yards and a touchdown. .
The Cardinals are the only team in the league that has yet to allow 100 yards rushing in a game this season. The defense could be bolstered this week by the return of defensive end Calais Campbell, out for the last two games with a knee injury.
"I think they know right now that if we don't play hard for 60 minutes,Wholesale NFL Jerseys," he said, "it's going to be very hard for us to win."
After Sunday's 24-13 win at Oakland, Arians said his team was "nothing special."
Arizona won nine of its last 11 games last season, so that makes them 12-3 over the last 15 games. The Cardinals haven't won 12 in a 15-game span since 1975-76. The 12-3 record is tied with Philadelphia, Denver and New England for the best in the NFL over the last 15 games.
Inside linebacker Larry Foote has been around for 13 NFL seasons, so he knows to keep a 5-1 start in perspective.
"They've been preaching that since I got here," said Foote, who signed as a free agent in the offseason. "It starts at the top — our line coach, our coordinator or linebacker coach, they're always screaming. They demand us to be good against the run, and they don't let up."
"We can't talk about Dallas. We don't play them until next week," coach Bruce Arians said, "But, this week, the Eagles are a big-time challenge."
Arizona ranked first against the run last year.
The Cardinals need to go 5-5 from here on to match last season's 10-6 record. That, though, wasn't good enough to make the playoffs. There's one way to assure a postseason berth.
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals are 5-1 for the first time in 38 years. After a victory at winless Oakland, the team sits alone atop the NFC West, with a two-game cushion in the loss column over San Francisco and Seattle.
" Right now it means nothing," he said, "because you can lose five in a row so easily in this league. Then you guys will be talking bad about us. So we've just got to stay the course. We're about to get into the meat of our schedule, I know that."
On Monday, he was asked to expand on that.
Now the road gets a whole lot tougher.
There are three other one-loss teams in the NFL, and Arizona plays two of them the next two weeks. First up is a home game Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles. A week later, there's a trip to Dallas to face the steamrolling Cowboys.
But there remains a belief on the team that the Cardinals have yet to put together a complete game. The win in Oakland might have been the closest to it yet.
Still ahead for the Cardinals are five division games. Arizona won at home against San Francisco in its only NFC West game thus far. |
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