When the Arizona cardinals take the field on Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings on defense, they have an automatic advantage, and their names are Chandler Jones and Markus Golden.
After years of manufacturing a pass rush using blitzes and a combination of players, the Cardinals have 13 sacks from their two outside linebackers.
This is what makes the Arizona Cardinals start to the 2016 season so hard to understand. After years of dominance along the front seven in the run game, the need to address the pass rush was obvious. Yet, after drafting Markus Golden in 2015 and then using a 2016 second round pick on Chandler Jones, the pass rush is fixed.