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Arizona Cardinals general manager Steve Keim said he was "embarrassed" by his team's losing performance to the New England Patriots on Sunday night. The Cardinals lost 23-21 to Patriots backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo in the season opener for both teams at University of Phoenix Stadium. Arizona kicker Chandler Catanzaro missed a 47-yard field goal with 41 seconds to play.
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The Patriots were playing without suspended quarterback Tom Brady, All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski, suspended defensive end Rob Ninkovich and two starting offensive linemen.
"You wake up Monday morning with a loss. You're angry, disappointed, embarrassed, and that's the way we should all feel," Keim said on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM. "Just didn't get it done, and a lot of reasons why we didn't get it done. And that needs to improve. That's certainly unacceptable.
"I know we have a talented bunch, yet at the same time if they don't play to their level, we're going to have disappointment. The sky is falling Monday, that's the feeling we should all have."
Cardinals coach Bruce Arians said after the game that his team was not prepared enough to win.
"We should have won the game," Arians said during his postgame news conference. "As poorly as we played, we should have still won.
"We were obviously not ready to play. They outplayed us and we will learn from it and grow from it and continue. There's a long way to go and regroup and see if we can win the next one."
Garoppolo completed 24 of 33 passes for 264 yards and did not throw an interception.
"We knew it would be hard to get to Garoppolo because most of it would be a three-step drop and he would get the ball out of his hands, but the cushion that we played with, the isolations that they got with some of their inside slot receivers on safeties and the lack of leverage and the inability to tackle in space, those were all extremely disappointing and a major reason why we were 10 of 16 (on third-down stops)," Keim said.
