Arizona Cardinals didn't even learn plays to start offseason program

The Arizona Cardinals have begun installing their new offense under head coach Mike LaFleur and offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett. However, before they even started talking about a single play, they focused on the very basics. "We were just talking about the the pre-snap operation, the cadences, the formations, the motions, how it's all tied together," he said at the start of OTAs.

"Along with that, you're talking about a lot of the fundamentals of what you're trying to get done. Don't worry about the play, here's how we hit blocks, here's how we hit interior blocks with our dual game, here's how the wide zone looks. Here's how our (protection) slides.

Here's our terminology, so you spend a lot of time just doing that, and then you try to bucket it up for the guys from a pass-game standpoint, talk about all your backside progression, stuff that's coming in the quarterback's vision, why those words are what they are. "Then you go to the quick game, then you bucket up into the different varieties of five-step and seven-step and all that, how all the seven-step ties in with the play-pass, and then can we sprinkle in a screen here and there, you know? " There is a reason why they didn't start working on plays.

They can't rep plays until OTAs. "With the rules, you don't like to get too far ahead of yourself," he said. "Well, you didn't even get a chance to go practice that stuff, you know, so we have to be careful.