Cardinals @ Packers · Week 9

WEEK 9 · FINAL

THE READ

Packers win the turnover battle and the game

Take care of the football or lose. Cardinals did not, and did. Derrick Henry ran it for Packers — 31 carries, 382 yards, 7 TD. Sam Darnold threw for Cardinals — 16/30, 440 yards, 4 TD, 3 INT — in a losing effort. That is 3 straight games over 250 for Sam Darnold. Through the air: Cardinals 440, Packers 80.

Jordan Hayes The armchair coach

THE WIDER PICTURE

Team	SRS	SOS	MARGIN	TO +/-
Cardinals	-1.0	+1.2	-2.2	-9
Packers	+8.6	+2.0	+6.5	+18

SRS is how many points a side beats an average team by once you account for who they played — beat a good team by 3 and it counts for more than beating a bad one by 20. SOS is how hard that schedule has been. Full table.

Packers — NFC #2 · division · 11-3 Cardinals — in the hunt · 8-6 Playoff picture →

In the MVP race

#9 Derrick Henry HB · Packers · 0.5% of the field

The whole board →

IN THE BOOTH

Ava Collins Beat reporter

Arizona's offense put up 516 yards and Sam Darnold threw for 440 with 4 touchdowns, but 3 turnovers against a Green Bay defense that didn't give the ball away once decided this one—the Pack leaned on Derrick Henry's 382 yards and 7 touchdowns on the ground and won the line of scrimmage entirely.

Zoe Bell The contrarian · replying

Jeremiyah Love caught 5 passes for 236 yards and 3 touchdowns—nobody could get near him—but Arizona's refusal to run (5 attempts all game) meant they had to throw into Green Bay's pass rush 4 times, and that arithmetic is what actually killed them.

They only ever read the box score and this league's own numbers — none of them has a source, and none of them can report anything that did not happen.

Derrick Henry

Packers

31 carries, 382 yards, 7 TD

Sam Darnold

Cardinals

16/30, 440 yards, 4 TD, 3 INT

Jeremiyah Love

Cardinals

5 catches, 236 yards, 3 TD

THE STORY SO FAR

🔥 Sam Darnold has now cleared 250 passing yards in 3 straight games.

⭐ Derrick Henry has not had a better afternoon this season.

⭐ Jeremiyah Love has not had a better afternoon this season.

🧊 Jordan Love — 92 overall — was held to 80 passing yards, against an average of 241.

WHAT DECIDED IT

Through the air Cardinals 440, Packers 80 Cardinals

On the ground Packers 380, Cardinals 76 Packers

Total yards Cardinals 516, Packers 460 Cardinals

Giveaways Packers 0, Cardinals 3 Packers

THE ROOM Final. The recap is below.

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THE MATCHUP SCOUT every number below is counted from the export or read off the roster — nothing is inferred about playcalling

LEAGUE DATA counted by Madden, and arithmetic on top of it

Pass-heavy Pass 64% · Rush 36% · 26.5 scored, 28.7 allowed

9.1 yds/att 56.0% completions 4.7 yds/carry 383.2 yds/game 2.1 giveaways/game 6.5% sack rate last 5: 4-1

Primary weapon: Marvin Harrison Jr WR — 29% of the receiving yards · DEPENDENCY MODERATE

SAPPHIRE METRICS QB efficiency 60 · Aggressive Balance 86 Ball security 40 Back usage 31% QB runs 2.5/game

Most exposed: ball security -- 2.1 giveaways a game

PERSONNEL off the roster — unit averages, best starters only

QB 90 WR 84 TE 99 RB 90 OL 84 DL 85 LB 77 DB 87

Best: Trey McBride TE 99 Fastest: Jeremiyah Love HB 94 SPD 4 at star dev or better

YOUR NOTEBOOK what you wrote about them — private, and never a Sapphire statistic

HOW THEY PLAY the man, not the franchise — only weeks the record attributes to him, this season

𝙒𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙖

Packers · his last 8 games

Runs it Protects it

Pass / run43% / 57% Points for / against34.9 — 20.2 Margin+14.6 Giveaways a game0.6 Sacks taken8.3% of dropbacks Lead backDerrick Henry · 20.8/g Top targetChristian Watson · 32% QB carries1.9 a game

impaid.w

Cardinals · his last 8 games

Throws it

Pass / run65% / 35% Points for / against28.5 — 30.0 Margin-1.5 Giveaways a game1.6 Sacks taken6.1% of dropbacks Lead backJeremiyah Love · 12.5/g Top targetMarvin Harrison Jr · 29% QB carries2.5 a game

Counted from the weeks each man actually held his team — so a franchise that changed hands is not credited to whoever has it now. Nothing above is a playcall: the export does not carry those, and neither does this.

THE SERIES impaid.w against 𝙒𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙖 — the men, not the teams

𝙒𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙖 leads it 1-0. 𝙒𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙖 won the last one.

1 meeting avg 36.0 — 51.0 biggest: 15 pts to 𝙒𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙖

S2 · week 9 impaid.w 36 — 51 𝙒𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙖 𝙒𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙖

Only meetings Sapphire can attribute to both men are counted — a Madden export never says who owned a team last season, so the series starts where the record does.

MATCHUP ADVANTAGES unit averages against each other — inside three points is a push

Cardinals receivers vs Packers secondary 84 v 88 PACKERS

Packers receivers vs Cardinals secondary 82 v 87 CARDINALS

Cardinals line vs Packers front 84 v 87 PACKERS

Packers line vs Cardinals front 80 v 85 CARDINALS

Cardinals backs vs Packers run defence 90 v 85 CARDINALS

Packers backs vs Cardinals run defence 86 v 82 PACKERS

Cardinals passer vs Packers secondary 90 v 88 EVEN

Packers passer vs Cardinals secondary 92 v 87 PACKERS

TOP PERFORMERS

Sam Darnold QB Cardinals 440 pass yds

Derrick Henry HB Packers 382 rush yds

Jeremiyah Love HB Cardinals 236 rec yds

Trey McBride TE Cardinals 111 rec yds

Jeremiyah Love HB Cardinals 76 rush yds

Matthew Golden WR Packers 72 rec yds

Marquise Brown WR Cardinals 71 rec yds

Kelee Ringo CB Packers 1 INTs

Benjamin St-Juste CB Packers 1 INTs

Domani Jackson CB Packers 1 INTs

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BOX SCORE

CARDINALS

PLAYER	C/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	SCK	LNG	RTG
Sam Darnold QB	16/30	440	4	3	4	72	98.6

PACKERS

PLAYER	C/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	SCK	LNG	RTG
Jordan Love QB	7/12	80	0	0	1	40	78.4

CARDINALS

PLAYER	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	BTK	YAC	LNG	FUM
Jeremiyah Love HB	5	76	15.2	1	1	4	73	0

PACKERS

PLAYER	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	BTK	YAC	LNG	FUM
Derrick Henry HB	31	382	12.3	7	11	178	61	0
Matthew Golden WR	1	-2	-2	0	1	1	0	0

CARDINALS

PLAYER	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	YAC	LNG
Jeremiyah Love HB	5	236	47.2	3	117	72
Trey McBride TE	5	111	22.2	0	21	40
Marquise Brown WR	3	71	23.7	0	4	29
Marvin Harrison Jr WR	3	22	7.3	1	14	11

PACKERS

PLAYER	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	YAC	DRP	LNG
Matthew Golden WR	6	72	12	0	20	0	40
Tucker Kraft TE	1	8	8	0	7	0	8

CARDINALS

PLAYER	TKL	SCK	PD
Will Johnson CB	6	0	0
Isaiah Oliver SS	3	0	0
Cody Simon WILL	2	0	0
Karson Sharar WILL	2	0	0
Josh Sweat REDG	2	0.5	0
Mack Wilson Sr MIKE	2	0	0
Dadrion Taylor-Demerson FS	2	0	0
Cobie Durant CB	2	0	0
Budda Baker SS	2	0	1
Andrew Wingard FS	1	0	0
Kaleb Proctor DT	1	0.5	0
Maxwell Hairston CB	1	0	1
Zaven Collins LEDG	1	0.5	0

PACKERS

PLAYER	TKL	SCK	INT	PD
Keisean Nixon CB	4	0	0	0
Xavier McKinney SS	3	0	0	0
Javon Bullard SS	2	1	0	2
Edgerrin Cooper WILL	2	0	0	1
Kelee Ringo CB	1	0	1	0
Brandon Cisse CB	1	0	0	0
Ty'Ron Hopper WILL	1	0	0	0
Benjamin St-Juste CB	1	0	1	0
Micah Parsons REDG	1	1	0	0
Trey Washington FS	1	0	0	0
Justin Scott DT	1	1	0	0
Boubacar Traore REDG	1	0	0	0
Lukas Van Ness LEDG	1	1	0	0
SirVocea Dennis MIKE	0	0	0	1
Domani Jackson CB	0	0	1	1
Chris McClellan DT	0	0	0	1

RECENT FORM

Cardinals

W 38–36 vs Rams WK 8

W 30–22 vs 49ers WK 7

L 21–24 vs Titans WK 5

Packers

W 33–23 vs Rams WK 7

W 38–28 vs Giants WK 6

L 12–25 vs Bears WK 5

TEAM STATS

Cardinals		Packers
516	TOTAL YARDS	460
440	PASSING YARDS	80
76	RUSHING YARDS	380
4	SACKS ALLOWED	1
1.5	SACKS MADE	4
3	GIVEAWAYS	0
0	TAKEAWAYS	3

Bold is the side that won that line. Giveaways come off a team's own offensive rows and takeaways off its own defensive rows — two separate payloads, so they need not tie out against each other.

ALL-TIME HEAD-TO-HEAD

0 CARDINALS — 1 PACKERS

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