Arizona Cardinals must continue this trend in 2025

The Arizona Cardinals have not had much for the success of divisions in recent years, but that started the Jonathan Gannon era in the early days.

From 2019 to 2023, starting when Kyler Murray arrived in the desert, the cardinals went against 8-22 opponents. In fact, a 4-2 division record was the best arizona against her competitors in a hot season 2021 since Bruce Arians was the head coach in 2016.

And after all reports, 2021 season was a high -quality coincidence. Simply put, the cardinals had a divisional success in the last little or no divisional success Decade.

While it is understandable in the course of one, but two 4-13 seasons in 2022 and 2023, to achieve poor playing results, the Arizona in 12 division matchups was no longer able to raise a unique victory.

This victory was a 27-17 victory against the Rams in Los Angeles Week 10, with Colt McCoy playing instead of an injured Murray.

Football is an inconsistent sport, and one of the most curious and wonderful aspects of the division rivalries is the general concept that even the poorest teams can find scratchy, ugly ways to drop their rivals. To steal a sentence from College Football World, this simply means more.

But the cardinals were exceptions to this rule. Instead, they were collective drilling bags in the last seasons of Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco's.

It is time that this can change, and the cardinals could go in the right direction in this regard.

In the brutal season 2023 – year one of the official reconstruction, the cardinals against the NFC West became profitable.

In fact, only two of the six matchups were even close (both against a relatively weak Seattle squad). Admittedly, two missed kicks by Matt Prater have an apparently playful journey in the season finale, but I wander off.

In 2024, the cardinals doubled their victory from four to eight games. But this time almost half of these eight victories were against the opponents of division when Gannon's squad in the west ended 3: 3.

And they weren't victories with random feet either. Arizona demolished the Rams at home 41-10 in week two. They swept the 49s and completed a 13-point comeback and a dominant 47-24 victory at home in week five to complete the season.

In fact, two of their three divisional losses competed for about a key game that swung the game in favor of their opponents.

In order to compete in the deep NFC, the winning area is a bonus. The NFC West will never stay down long.

A 3-3 record is a massive step in the right direction and triples the rim of the linen in the past two years.

But it can't stop here. The cardinals cannot simply lean back and hope that Wild Card lounger will come to them. If you want to compete in the playoffs, you have to find ways to beat teams that sounded fundamentally, well came and talented.

Arizona scolds herself on these factors, do not understand incorrectly. But it has to appear in tangible results and in big moments.

While the cardinals in the west were more successful, they also folded together in two of their biggest games of the year – both losses against an unstable Seahawks team.

It is encouraging to see that they dominate the 49s and set up fireworks against the RAMs, but they have to be a more holistic competitor of the division over the years. If Gannon wants to take his place next to Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan, his team has to be a consistent problem for her.

It is time to win the West again for the first time since 2015.