Cardinals coach Bruce Arians: ‘We should have won the game’
The Cardinals were a ten-point favorite going into the contest.
After falling, 23-21, to a Patriots team that was without Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski, Rob Ninkovich, Nate Solder, Sebastian Vollmer, and Dion Lewis, Cardinals coach Bruce Arians didn’t mince his words about what he saw from his team.
“We should have won the game,” he said. “As poorly as we played, we still should have won.” Arians seemed to be focused on the missed field goal that would have won them the game in the waning seconds of the fourth quarter. Rookie longsnapper Kameron Canady snapped the ball low, and holder Drew Butler had to adjust, not getting the ball in an ideal position for kicker Chandler Catanzaro.
Catanzaro, for his part, didn’t blame either of his compatriots. “Just an old fashioned miss,” he said. “I’ll make the next one.”
“Obviously a very disappointing loss,” Arians continued. “We didn’t really play well enough in any phase, special teams, offense or defense, to win this game, although we still had chance and didn’t execute our snap, hold, and kick.”
“It was a low snap, Drew got it down and [Catanzaro] pulled it,” he said, but added that blame for the loss all starts with him. “It starts at the top, we [were] obviously not ready to play, they outplayed us.”
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