49ers 36, Cardinals 30: What went wrong, what went right

hello arizona cardinals fans and welcome to the latest edition of the rise ups here at podcast the best of cardinals talk on the web i'm your host jess root from cardswire.com usa today's nfl wire side that of course covers your arizona cardinals joining me for episode number 824 it is our reaction and review show joining me is seth cox from revengeofthebirds.com my co-host espinations arizona cardinal site as we talk about the cardinals Latest loss, a 36-30 defeat to the San Francisco 49ers on the road in Santa Clara on Sunday.

A game that was kind of interesting, but ultimately still showed a lot of bad things.

And that's kind of what we want to start with.

They're 1-2.

The San Francisco 49ers absolutely decimated on the defensive line.

They lost Mike Evans' receiver.

I mean, they lost Mike Evans in the first half of the game, and the Cardinals never led in that game.

They trailed the entire game.

It was a little bit of – there was a lot of bad, a little bit of good.

But let's start with what went wrong in that game, Seth?

I mean – The easy out is to say the defense, right? Obviously, and we'll get to the defensive performance, but the reality is it started on the offensive side of the ball and just, again, not being competitive.

When you look at the Cardinals' offense to start the game, They scored six first-half points.

Their drives were, you know, a 12-play, 32-yard punt, and then a 6-play, 13-yard punt, and then a 3-and-out.

And you look at that, Jess, and you go...

How do you have the ball for 11 minutes and not do anything? Like, and not just not do anything, Jess.

Like, I really can't explain it better than this.

They had the ball for over 11 minutes in that time frame, right? Those three drives.

They ran 21 plays, Jess.

21.

And got zero points.

And didn't turn the ball over.

And that's the thing.

They didn't turn the ball over.

So they had the ball.

They just weren't moving