A weekly look at what the Arizona Cardinals must fix:

Pro Bowl receiver Larry Fitzgerald has been targeted more in the last two weeks after a firestorm erupted in Week 1, but it hasn’t been enough, especially early in games. The Cardinals are off this week before they travel to Denver in Week 5 to face a Broncos secondary that’s allowed the second-most passing yards per game. Arizona can spend that time working on getting Fitzgerald involved in the game plan earlier. If there was a game to get Fitzgerald involved again, this would be it.

When Fitzgerald is involved in the first-half offense, the Cardinals can move the ball more efficiently and score at a higher clip -- as was evident again in Week 3, when Arizona scored just six points in the first two quarters, when Fitzgerald was targeted just twice. It’s easy to say Fitzgerald is involved in the offense, but when you compare Weeks 2 and 3, the lack of his presence is obvious. Against New York in Week 2, the Cardinals scored 10 points in the first half after targeting Fitzgerald seven times.

During his progressions, Drew Stanton looked Fitzgerald’s way more often than Carson Palmer did in Week 1, but even those were few and far between, a review of the game film proved. Fitzgerald, whose first catch didn’t come until the fourth quarter, when the game was already decided, often drew single coverage underneath in the first half. With deep help over the top, the short routes to Fitzgerald were open in the first half. A few passes to him could’ve opened up the rest of the passing game in the first two quarters.