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Arizona Cardinals Week 10 offensive snap counts, observations vs. Seahawks
In the brutal arithmetic of professional football, where every snap tells a story of strategy, endurance, and ultimately, survival, the Arizona Cardinals' 44-22 demolition at the hands of the Seattle Seahawks in Week 10 was a masterclass in offensive disintegration. While the final score tells one tale, the snap counts—a granular look at who was on the field and for how long—reveal a far more intricate narrative of a game plan shredded before it could even be implemented.Of the 76 offensive snaps, only two players, left tackle Paris Johnson Jr. and left guard Evan Brown, stood for the entire bloody affair, a testament to their durability amidst a cascade of injuries and strategic substitutions that saw 21 different Cardinals take the field.The quarterback carousel, a recurring theme this season, spun once more as Kedon Slovis relieved a besieged Jacoby Brissett for the final three snaps, a symbolic white flag in a contest long since decided. The offensive line, a unit perpetually under the microscope, was a revolving door of personnel; right tackle Jonah Williams exited with a shoulder injury, thrusting veteran Kelvin Beachum into the fray for 29 snaps, while the interior saw Jon Gaines II and Isaiah Adams spell Hjalte Froholdt and Will Hernandez in a desperate search for stability that never materialized.The sheer volume of pressure Brissett faced was staggering—five sacks and 23 pressures according to Next Gen Stats—raising his total to 18 sacks in just four starts, a figure that hauntingly echoes Kyler Murray's 16 sacks in five games. This isn't merely a quarterback problem; it's a systemic failure of protection, a point painfully conceded by Johnson Jr.himself, who shouldered the blame by stating the offensive line must be the 'driving force of the energy' and simply wasn't. Brissett’s performance, completing a paltry 50% of his passes for two touchdowns and a passer rating of 83.3, was a product of this chaos. His post-game reflection on Seattle's 'creative pressures' and the 'bad luck' of a strip-sack that became a Seahawks touchdown was less an excuse and more a clinical diagnosis of a unit being out-schemed and out-fought.The run game, theoretically a cornerstone with talents like James Conner, was rendered an absolute afterthought once Seattle erected a 35-0 lead before halftime. While Emari Demercado’s 55-yard fourth-quarter scamper provided a fleeting highlight, it was a statistical mirage; without it, the running back trio of Demercado, Bam Knight, and Michael Carter managed a paltry 15 carries for 30 yards, a testament to a game script that had been torn up and discarded.The receiving corps, headlined by the prodigious Marvin Harrison Jr. , was effectively muted, with Harrison catching only three of twelve targets for a meager 33 yards—a stark contrast to his prior productivity.The season-ending Achilles injury to Zay Jones further depletes a room already yearning for consistency. The lone beacon in this offensive darkness was, unsurprisingly, tight end Trey McBride, who continues to build a Pro Bowl-caliber season with a monstrous nine receptions for 127 yards and a touchdown.On pace for 115 receptions and over 1,100 yards, McBride’s emergence as a premier security blanket is one of the few positive trends in a season defined by its volatility. Ultimately, these snap counts are more than just numbers; they are the forensic evidence of a team whose offensive identity is in crisis.The constant shuffling along the line, the inability to establish a ground game, and the quarterback under duress on nearly every dropback paint a picture of a unit that is not just losing, but being fundamentally outmatched. In the grand chessboard of the NFL, the Cardinals' offensive pieces are being taken off the board with alarming speed, and the snap sheet from Week 10 is the final, damning scorecard.
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