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By KRISTINA VICARIO
Cronkite News

TEMPE – The Arizona Cardinals bounced back from a home-opening loss with a 40-7 blowout win Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a game in which the offense scored four touchdowns on 315 yards in the air and 101 yards on the ground.

But while the score depicted a stellar offensive effort, coach Bruce Arians was anything but pleased.

“The score doesn’t indicate how poorly we played offensively.” Arians said. “We can get a lot better. Communication was not very good in the beginning of the game and way too many mental errors, especially by a couple of young players.”

Arians specifically pointed to Cardinals second-year running back David Johnson, who led his team with 152 total yards, as the source of some of the unit’s offensive struggles.

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