The Cardinals Defense is the Wagon Maker #bestball #fantasyfootball
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Oct 18, 2026
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Sun, October 18, 2026
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Puka Nacua has returned to the field and is described by the source as absolutely cooking in his performance.
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0:01>> Yeah, in a sense the Cardinals are the
0:02wagon of the week.
0:04It's the Cardinals defense
0:05>> [laughter]
0:05>> is the wagon.
0:06>> 100%. [clears throat]
0:08>> Um but yeah, I mean the Rams
0:11coming off uh you know, it's one of
0:12those games they they end up losing the
0:15game, but I mean it was it was a
0:16wagon-esque performance last week
0:18certainly on on offense.
0:20Um Matthew Stafford playing very
0:22efficiently this year. Puka Nacua back
0:24and absolutely cooking. And then you
0:27have the Cardinals defense that's 30th
0:29in passing DVOA, 31st in EPA, 25th in
0:32success rate, not really getting a pass
0:34rush, and and quite bad in coverage. And
0:37then the other thing with the Cardinals
0:38that's funny like when I look at these
0:41these passing matchups early in the
0:42season, right? You're trying to be like,
0:43"Okay, but who did you play? You know,
0:45how
0:46are these numbers for real?" The
0:48Cardinals numbers look a little fake in
0:50that they might be worse than this.
0:53>> [laughter]
0:54>> Cuz they've gotten to play Justin
0:56Herbert. And they and they also got
0:58absolutely cooked by Drew Lock. So like
1:00this this team, you know, Purdy went Ja-
1:03and James. Yeah. So like they they've
1:05had an easy schedule
1:07of opposing quarterbacks. Goff went nuts
1:10against [snorts] them. Purdy went nuts
1:11against them. But like this this is a
1:13tough tough spot. And they have not
1:17performed well in like much easier
1:19matchups than this.
1:20>> Well, the two teams that are like
1:21adjacent to the Rams that we would put
1:23that they faced offensively like in
1:25structurally how they want to play like
1:26under center and doing uh some of the
1:29things the Rams are going to do, the
1:3049ers and the Lions like absolutely just
1:33stomped them. Like defense like
1:35obviously. They did score some points on
1:36the 49ers, but uh
1:38they just did got dissected by both of
1:41those teams. Um so I do believe this
1:44will be a spot where definitely going to
1:45have passing volume reduction for
1:47Matthew Stafford, but he is absolutely
1:50going to be efficient in this game on
1:52his drop backs.
1:53First half props.
1:55Uh Uh, I mean the So Arizona is allowing
1:59the most passing points per attempt at
2:000.72. So, for context, Brock Purdy leads
2:04the individual quarterbacks at 0.68. So,
2:07like every quarterback that basically is
2:08pace faces the Cardinals is 2026 Brock
2:11Purdy. It's like, what's happening like
2:13right now?
