Baron Browning wants to get sacks. But he isn't focusing on it – in fact, he loves how he's deployed by defensive coordinator Nick Rallis, dropping into coverage sometimes (like the play in which he had an interception against the Panthers) and sometimes getting after the QB.

"I just love any quarterback that doesn't want to move out of the pocket," Browning said on this week's "Big Red Rage."

Browning is off to an excellent start, one of the guys who was under the radar as everyone waited for Josh Sweat and wondered about BJ Ojulari and worshiped the return of Calais Campbell. Six tackles, a sack, a pick, two tackles for loss, a pass defensed.

With nine QB pressures, Browning has teamed with Sweat (10) to be one of only two pairs of teammates with at least nine pressures each over the first two games, according to Next Gen Stats. (The other duo is New England's Harold Landry and K'Lavon Chaisson.)

The pass rush has been interesting for the Cardinals. They have blitzed only 13.9 percent of the time this season, third-lowest in the league. (Last year their rate was 26.7, which was actually under the league average and belying Rallis' reputation for scheming a ton on the pass rush.)

They went through Week 1 disappointed they let QB Spencer Rattler out of the pocket too often. The job was to keep Panthers QB Bryce Young in the pocket in Week 2, which they did – although they would've liked to make Young more uncomfortable.

According to Trumedia, the Cardinals rushed just four on 30 of Carolina's 32 fourth-quarter dropbacks.

"You'd like not to play 90 plays too," coach Jonathan Gannon said. "We'd like to play complementary football a little bit better. You understand you can have games like that. As far as the pass rush, you always think it can be better. I want to see guys take a jump from Week 2 to Week 3. We have to affect the passer."

-- Speaking of the passer, San Francisco style: Brock Purdy is "highly unlikely" to play, which was always the probability. Purdy is better than Mac Jones. But they'd be doing the same things in-game, so I don't think it really impacted the Cardinals' prep. Jones, who started in State Farm Stadium in 2022 for the Patriots, will get another crack at the Cardinals.

(You remember that game. Kyler Murray tore his ACL on the third play, and everything changed from there.)

-- The Cardinals are 7-4 all-time at Levi's Stadium. Murray talked about how much he likes playing there. This is a big one, even this early in the season.

-- Want to talk about the target share wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. is getting? That's fine, but you might as well leave out MHJ himself.

"That's a silly conversation really. We're 2-0," Harrison said. "Everybody wants the ball. Everybody who is a competitor, loves the game, loves what they do, everybody wants the ball and to impact the game, but most importantly it's all about winning."

-- Not only did Campbell have a triumphant return to State Farm Stadium last weekend with two sacks – including the game-clinching sack – but he had his family close by in one of the end zone casitas.

"I spent a pretty penny on that suite but to me it was necessary because I wanted my family close," Campbell said. "There's no better feeling."

-- The last time Campbell had two sacks in a game before last Sunday? It was 4 years, 10 months and 28 days before that, when he had three in a game for the Ravens during the 2020 season.

-- There was a moment this week when Harrison was sitting at his locker in an almost empty room when Campbell wandered over and grabbed a chair to sit down next to the wide receiver. No idea what they were talking about, but it wouldn't be hard to imagine Campbell being the leader he is and giving advice for MHJ to maneuver through these weeks. There is no question Harrison is going to remain a topic of conversation no matter what he does each game. And it's why you love having CC in the locker room.

-- The topic of defensive lineman Darius Robinson's production has been brought up, and tangibly, Robinson does not have stats – he has one tackle in two games over 86 snaps – but Gannon said the second-year player was "doing well."

"We're moving him around," Gannon said. "He's doing excellent in the run game. Not always with defensive linemen, as many times as we put five on the front, they can play winning football and impact the game without showing up on the stat sheet.

"Do I want him to win one-on-one and the point of attack and make a bunch of plays? Absolutely. But sometimes the ball doesn't come to you and you can be doing your job and let somebody else make plays too. … Just because you're not showing up on the stat sheet doesn't mean you're not playing well."

-- The Cardinals have lost Garrett Williams, but Jalen Thompson can play the same role -- he did so when Williams missed the front end of his rookie season -- and with Rabbit Taylor-Demerson ready to play safety, the Cardinals have the depth to be OK. I don't expect Will Johnson to play, but if Max Melton can, the Cardinals can use rookie Denzel Burke and other combos to make it through in the secondary. It's not nearly as bad of a situation as it looked like it could be last Sunday.

-- Two games, so small sample size. But the Cardinals have used 13 personnel (one running back, three tight ends) on 18.3 percent of their plays, which not only leads the league but would be the highest rate in the NFL since 2016, when Next Gen Stats started charting games.

-- San Jose is not Palo Alto. But it's close enough for the Cardinals' Stanford boys – Michael Wilson, Elijah Higgins, Simi Fehoko – this weekend. Wilson has played pretty well in two Levi's trips.

-- Secret weapon alert: Greg Dortch came into the season anxious to show what he could do in the return game both kickoff and punt. In both games Dortch has had a big punt return, 23 yards in New Orleans, 29 yards against Carolina. He's been close to breaking one. This could be the week.

-- The last word goes to offensive line coach Justin Frye, about the "ebbs and flows" of the run game.

"We've got to be more complementary up front, starting with us up front, when it is the double team, how do we efficiently do that. There is some bad on tape but there is some really good (expletive) on tape too. You see some stuff and it's like, 'Whoa, that's what it looks like.' It's not spectacular, but what we're supposed to do."

See you Sunday.