Arizona Cardinals Drop Game Against Atlanta Falcons

By Francisco Romero. – The Arizona cardinals fell to the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday 38 – 19 as playoffs hopes diminish for the Red Birds.

With the loss the Cardinals are now 4-6-1 in the NFC West in second place behind Seattle.

During the postgame press conference Cardinals’ head coach Bruce Arians praised the offense as it scored in its first drive, something the Cardinals have not been able to do all season long, it was a 9-play, 75-yard drive that resulted in a touchdown.

According to Arians the game came down to mistakes, “I thought this game came up to three drop balls; we dropped a big interception in the second drive and the fourth down drop by Michael Floyd killed the momentum we had at that time,” said during the press conference. “I think those plays were the keys in the second half”, he added.

Arians talked about execution and how the team needs to be able to do what is capable of doing, “We had a defense that was ranked number one coming in, but we are not playing like a number one defense”, said the head coach.

“It’s very frustrating”, added Arians. “You have to start with yourself, asking if you are asking guys to do things they can’t do. “I don’t think catching the ball is one of them. Blocking someone without help? Maybe. … That’s again an issue I’ll look at, what are we asking them to do”.

At half time the Cardinals were still in the game with the score 17 – 13.

Numerically the Cardinals are still in the playoff hunt and the Arizona Cardinals have not yet given up as stated by Arians, ““We need one win, one win. There’s nobody left on the schedule we can’t beat. Who knows what the final tallies will be. But we need to win one”.

Next on the schedule for the Cardinals are the Washington Redskins who will be visiting University of Phoenix Stadium on Sunday December 4^th, kickoff is scheduled for 2:25 PM.