Voila: Subtle shifts in offensive philosophy

From CL Brown's blog (bold is mine):

Teddy Bridgewater said the game plan hasn’t changed since the Cards switched from Mike Sanford to Shawn Watson as the play caller. But he hinted at subtle differences that have led the Cards to score a combined 65 points in two weeks (they had just 52 weeks 4-7.)

“We’re throwing the ball more on first down probably and doing a lot of naked passes but it’s still the same game plan,” Bridgewater said and added, “Lately we’ve been shifting a lot motion a lot trying to get the defense to show what they’re in and reveal themselves.”

In other words, the Cards have shifted offensive philosophy in the direction pretty much every fan that I know wanted desperately to see in the early part of this season. 

Probably an oversimplification of things, failing to acknowledge in particular the maturation of the offensive line in recent weeks. But when there's even the appearance that the fan base has better instincts than the former offensive coordinator, it's not a good scenario, underscoring why a change might have been urgently needed. The way in which Sanford's departure was handled was clumsy, to say the least; but Charlie Strong's instinct to make the change appears to have been vindicated.