The Works of Matthew Jarecki

Monday Night Football showed how far away the Cardinals are, but how quickly they can close the gap

November 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

You ever try to make your favorite dish from your favorite restaurant at home? You can use all the same ingredients, the chef might tell you exactly how to [...]

Should the Cardinals use Kyler Murray like the Ravens use Lamar Jackson?

November 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Wow! 37-20 over the defending Super Bowl champs! This MUST be the new formula for winning with a mobile quarterback, right? We’ve never seen anything like this [...]

Why the Kenyan Drake trade was good, and what it could mean

October 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

Today the Arizona Cardinals traded a 6th round pick for Kenyan Drake. That pick, according to Ian Rapaport, could become a 5th rounder conditionally. Drake’s 25 [...]

So far, Kingsbury is just a Twitter influencer

October 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

Living for social media “likes” is the 2019 version of going into credit card debt. It used to be that we’d buy things we couldn’t afford to [...]

Deandre Ayton talks like a franchise cornerstone, plays like one, now can he act like one?

October 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

You’ve heard the news. Deandre Ayton is suspended 25 games for testing positive for a diuretic, usually a sign that a player is trying to flush a banned [...]

The Suns look like the team they’ll need to be to keep Devin Booker around

October 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

Devin Booker is signed to an NBA maximum contract worth $158 million that should keep him a Sun through 2024. Anthony Davis had one that should’ve kept him a [...]

The case for trading David Johnson

October 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

I’m fascinated by this thing local media and fanbases do when it comes to players or coaches they deem sacred, untouchable or misunderstood. If an idea they don’t [...]

Fools-gold winning streak for the Cardinals? Not for Kingsbury.

October 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

The winless Bengals? The hapless Falcons? The directionless Giants? Who cares, right? That’s an understandable takeaway as the Cardinals ride a three-game winning [...]

Steve Keim was man enough

October 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

In life and in football, acting out of ego creates short-term wins. You won that argument with your girlfriend? Feels great now, but she’ll resent you later. You [...]

The Rams have a problem the Cardinals would love to have

October 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

As the 3-3 Rams scramble to rearrange their team just a season removed from a Super Bowl appearance, it would be easy for Cardinals fans and staffers to laugh in the face of [...]