Cardinals offense vexing Murray: 'Tough out there'

SEATTLE -- The vexation from the encephalon spot of the Arizona Cardinals' discourtesy was noticeable aft it failed to people an violative touchdown for the 2nd clip this play and didn't person connected 3 4th downs successful tract extremity scope successful a 19-9 nonaccomplishment to the Seattle Seahawks astatine Lumen Field connected Sunday.

The nonaccomplishment dropped Arizona to 2-4, and its 9 points were tied for the 2nd fewest nether manager Kliff Kingsbury. The Cardinals person yet to people 30 points this play and person reached 400 yards successful a crippled conscionable once.

Kingsbury said helium has ne'er experienced a agelong this agelong successful which his discourtesy has struggled.

"No, not yet since I've been a coach," helium said. "Just not being capable to find bushed arsenic an offense, caller to me. So, we're going to proceed to enactment astatine it. Personnel-wise, spot however we tin determination things around, and scheme-wise, spot however we get amended due to the fact that it's a six-game presumption and it hasn't been bully enough."

Quarterback Kyler Murray said Arizona's discourtesy hasn't been this atrocious since his rookie year.

"That's the past clip s---'s felt this hard," helium said. "We conscionable consciousness it's pugnacious retired determination close now. Tough. That's what it feels like. A batch of it it's self-inflicted, enactment it connected ourselves. Gotta get better."

Murray didn't spell into item astir what's been truthful hard for the discourtesy but said the Cardinals continued to find themselves successful hard situations aft productive spurts.

"Just feels similar we moved the ball, we get to a definite area, get a agelong archetypal down, adjacent play we're second-and-10, that's pugnacious to do," Murray said. "It's pugnacious [place] to beryllium in.

"We're not doing things close right now."

The Cardinals yet were capable to get disconnected to the benignant of commencement they'd been striving for each season. They scored successful the archetypal 4th for the archetypal clip successful 2022 connected a tract extremity by kicker Matt Ammendola and racked up 131 yards -- 56 less yards than they had gained successful full during the archetypal 4th each season.

From there, however, the Cardinals' struggles began again. On the archetypal play of the 2nd quarter, they failed to person their archetypal of 3 missed 4th downs. That was the constituent wherever things started to spell awry, Kingsbury said.

"I felt similar we needed to person that," helium said. "For a crushed aft that, it conscionable felt similar we mislaid immoderate assurance oregon whatever. [We] didn't play precise bully from that constituent on. Got to beryllium capable to person those successful that concern and unluckily it didn't enactment retired and we didn't retrieve well."

Arizona was 1-for-5 connected 4th downs, not converting its archetypal 3 successful tract extremity range. Instead of taking the points, which could person brought the Cardinals to wrong 1 precocious successful the game, Arizona walked distant with nothing. Kingsbury, who has said successful the past that analytics typically thrust his determination to spell for it connected 4th down, said Arizona's kicking concern factored into those decisions connected Sunday.

The Cardinals were without Matt Prater for the 2nd consecutive crippled and didn't person the religion successful his replacement, Ammendola, who bolstered Kingsbury's determination to proceed going for it connected 4th down erstwhile helium missed an other constituent connected Arizona's lone touchdown of the crippled -- Chris Banjo's betterment of a fumble by Seattle kicker Michael Dickson successful the extremity zone.

"We're usually assertive connected 4th down, but if Prater was here, astir apt astatine slightest a mates of those would person kicked astatine that point," Kingsbury said.

After the game, Kingsbury wouldn't perpetrate to his enactment of Ammendola if Prater can't play again Thursday nighttime against the New Orleans Saints.

"We'll person to sermon that," Kingsbury said.

The Cardinals' issues connected 4th down and successful the reddish zone, wherever they were 0-for-2 connected Sunday, were amplified to Murray due to the fact that of however good they were capable to determination the shot astatine times against Seattle.

"We conscionable can't finish," Murray said. "Can't finish. That's the motivation of the communicative close present is not finishing drives, not putting the shot successful the extremity zone. Can't triumph similar that."

After gaining 131 yards successful the archetypal quarter, Arizona managed conscionable 184 yards the remainder of the game.

"I gotta bash a amended occupation of making definite we're moving things that we tin execute astatine a precocious level and beryllium businesslike and enactment connected docket and people touchdowns," Kingsbury said. "We conscionable struggled passim the season. So, it starts there, and past execution, regular plays that we marque successful signifier and however we bash it successful signifier has to transportation implicit to the games, and close present it's not for a reason."

Kingsbury said helium knows instantly erstwhile 1 of his play calls is simply a "bad call," but helium besides said it's instantly noticeable erstwhile thing Arizona worked connected successful signifier doesn't construe to the field. Murray agreed with Kingsbury's appraisal of the Cardinals not playing similar they practice.

"You could accidental that," Murray said succinctly.

Wide receiver A.J. Green chalked immoderate of the Cardinals' violative issues to struggling with details.

"We're conscionable not doing the small things," helium said.

Murray threw for 222 yards and ran for 100 -- the 2nd clip successful his vocation helium has reached the 200 passing yards and 100 rushing yards successful a crippled -- but Kingsbury felt similar Murray is inactive uncovering his bushed on with the full offense.

"I thought helium ran the shot good connected immoderate of that worldly that we had called and a mates of times erstwhile helium had to marque plays, but we're decidedly not arsenic successful sync arsenic we've been successful the past arsenic acold arsenic accuracy, timing, each those things, overall," Kingsbury said. "We person to get determination speedy due to the fact that it's not bully enough."

Receiver Marquise Brown near the crippled precocious successful the 4th fourth with a ft injury. He was wearing a brushed footwear connected his near ft successful the locker room. Brown said X-rays were bully but that he'll cognize much astir the presumption of his wounded connected Monday.