Arizona Cardinals: 3 biggest takeaways vs Oakland Raiders
By Scott Allen
Penalties
The Cardinals couldn’t get out of their own way on Sunday. They had horrible penalties in the fourth quarter as they tried to salt the game away.
A personal foul penalty on tight end Jermaine Gresham was costly. Mike Iupati had a bad penalty and then the back breaker was the holding penalty on tight end Ricky Seals-Jones.
Seals-Jones was holding when really he probably didn’t need to be on a 57-yard David Johnson touchdown run. Johnson had already run off one play of 53-yards earlier.
The touchdown would not only have given Johnson 190-yards rushing on the day at the time, it would have given the Cardinals a 28-20 lead and likely win. However, it was all erased and the Cardinals didn’t recover from it.
The Cardinals had seven penalties for 62-yards while the Raiders had just four penalties for 20-yards. The Cardinals were just an undisciplined team at the worst possible time.