All or Nothing: A Season with the Arizona Cardinals, Episode 3

Amazon’s all-access series All or Nothing featuring the Arizona Cardinals and their journey in 2015

Episode three started off with a practice player getting cut.  We got to know practice squad player Lawrence Okoye.  We got to spend at least two minutes of film time on him.

So you are asking why just two minutes?  Well turns out he wasn’t with the Cardinals much longer after being featured.  The dude decided to park in coach Bruce Arians spot.  That is a big no-no.  He wasn’t yelled at or admonished.  Nope, he was cut.  Buh-bye.

If you can’t follow simple rules off the field, how can one expect that they will be followed on the field?  So, a parking mishap does in Okoye.

We get to see inside team president Michael Bidwill’s house.  On gameday against the Baltimore Ravens, the crew takes us inside his efforts in rescuing dogs.  He has a rescue dog he lives with. They show us Bidwill taking the dog to his sister’s place prior to going to the stadium.

That takes us to the Baltimore game itself, a game the Cardinals won 26-20 in dramatic fashion. The game was decided on a Tony Jefferson interception of Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco in the end zone.  The Cardinals moved to 5-2.

We get a glimpse of Tyrann Mathieu’s story and how he came to be drafted by the Cardinals.  It is a story that can’t be told enough.  He is a true success story on and off the field.

After the Ravens game the players can feel the bye week coming soon.  Arians would have none of it.  He didn’t want to hear one guy talk about the upcoming bye week.  They had business to attend to.  The Cleveland Browns were on deck.

The Cardinals went into Cleveland and struggled in the first half.  The second half was a different tale and the Cardinals cruised to a 34-20 victory, despite four turnovers.

Here comes the bye week.  We get a glimpse of Arians on the bye week on his boat next to his Georgia home on the lake.  He shows us old photos from his early coaching days.  Hey..BA had hair!

The episode finishes off with the Seattle Seahawks game on Sunday Night Football in Seattle. The team spends all week talking about they have business to take care of.  They had been ’embarrassed’ by the Hawks at home 35-6 in their last meeting the prior December.

Week 10 not only takes us to Seattle but also inside the home of guard Mike Iupati.  Iupati’s wife tells us how she loves the (Phoenix) area.  The kids of course are adorable.

In the Hawks game, the Cardinals jumped out to a 19-0 lead only to see Seattle storm back to take a 29-25 lead before the Cardinals eventually pulled it out 39-32.  Of concern though was Iupati.  He had left the game in an ambulance.

However Iupati turned out fine.  He was actually in the locker room already before the Cardinals finished off the game.  We get to see Iupati in practice three days later testing out his injured shoulder.  He is fine and his wife, with tears down her cheek, happy he is alright.

The Cardinals are alright.  They are now 7-2 at this point.  They own a three-game lead in the NFC West.