You’ve Got Mail: Cardinals Move On to San Francisco — Cornerback Depth, Marvin Harrison Jr., and What Went Wrong vs. Seattle

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• I think Brissett is going to go to where the play/open men generally dictate, but the defense has a say in how quickly that happens.
• How did the Cardinals plan to beat Seattle when the longest pass of the day was only nine yards?!?
• As always, absolutely love your mailbag and the work that your team puts in.
• When the defense can cause those problems with only four rushing, however, that leaves a lot of defenders to come up and make stops and avoid a lot of YAC.
• As good as defense played how will we account for talented X-receivers going forward?

What to take from it

We have been told over and over that, because of his size, he can win contested catches. As for the longer passes, I feel confident in saying the Cardinals did not plan to have their longest pass be nine yards. In Jaxon Smith-Njigba's case, part of the issues on Sunday was a lack of pressure on Drew Lock, allowing JSN to find spots where he was open, and certainly, coverages could have been better.

Example or evidence

• You noting that Harrison can make contested catches reminds me of when Kurt Warner had to be told repeatedly just trust Larry Fitzgerald to come down with those passes before he'd throw to tight windows.
• Then again, Warner never really minded throwing a pick or two.
• Don't forget to send a question for a future mailbag with at least a first name and last initial.
• From Glen Gregory: "Will Johnson and Max Melton are both banged up, Garrett Williams still isn't 100 percent so he hasn't even been playing.

Details worth keeping

Sunday was a rough one, and it didn't seem that way going into halftime. As Mike LaFleur emphasized, games are 60 minutes. I seem to have learned that somewhere along the way.

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