Monday, October 10, 2005
Carolina re-cap
Like a typical Cardinal Fan - I will blame some of the loss on the referees. But before I go further - good teams find a way to overcome adversity and our team can't seem to overcome a crazy fumble or obvious bad call. The rest of the blame is on Coach "Buddy" Green as some fans are starting to call him.
The bad call was right before half, Cardinals have the opportunity to go up by 14 into the half. They are on the 2 yard line, fade pass to Fitz, Fitz is manhandled and thrown to ground before ball gets there, they intercept and run it down field - end of story. No points, no field goal try for the birds, nothing. Seeing it live - I thought it was an obvious flag - but sometimes live is mis-leading. I then saw it on the replay, and it makes you want to go down and rip the flag out of the referee yourself and say something your mother wouldn't like. Why do the Cardinals not get these kinds of calls. Does God hate the Cardinals?
McCown is the no-brainer choice as the starter for this team. Sorry Kurt - but you would have been killed back there. McCown has thrown for over 750 yards in 2 games, both Boldin and Fitz have over 100 yards each game and a TD a piece in each game.
I am very impresssed with McCown's pocket presence last game. There were many times I thought we were going to get crushed and lose the ball back there, but he just stepped up past the defender and made the throw.
If this loss was the first week of the season, or even the second and we were 0-2, we would be thinking - this was a great game, we feel like we are there and our Redbirds are going to do something special. But since this was a must win for us, this loss hurts and we are out of the playoff picture. They have to be able to hold on to leads if they want to win in the NFL.
Shipp had a few good runs, but his total yardage was pitiful because of the negative yard runs. He had one run on a first and 15 - he ran 15 yards for a first down. Awesome, but coach doesn't run to him again.
Here is an interesting stat - 2 years ago when the Patriots won the Super-Bowl, they were 27th in the league in rushing, but 6th in rushing attemps! That tells you that they just kept pounding tha ball, even though they were zero yard runs. It still wore down defenses. This is what the Cardinals should learn. I know its hard to give up what may be big yards - but sometimes this is what it takes.
I blame Green because of lack of discipline. Lenoard Davis has a false start every game. We had penalties that killed us again. We did not stick with the run. 20-10 going into the 4th qtr - we should just pound the ball and run it. Green also gave up - 2 timouts left and he did not use them with 55 seconds left. He conceded! Green sucks!
The bad call was right before half, Cardinals have the opportunity to go up by 14 into the half. They are on the 2 yard line, fade pass to Fitz, Fitz is manhandled and thrown to ground before ball gets there, they intercept and run it down field - end of story. No points, no field goal try for the birds, nothing. Seeing it live - I thought it was an obvious flag - but sometimes live is mis-leading. I then saw it on the replay, and it makes you want to go down and rip the flag out of the referee yourself and say something your mother wouldn't like. Why do the Cardinals not get these kinds of calls. Does God hate the Cardinals?
McCown is the no-brainer choice as the starter for this team. Sorry Kurt - but you would have been killed back there. McCown has thrown for over 750 yards in 2 games, both Boldin and Fitz have over 100 yards each game and a TD a piece in each game.
I am very impresssed with McCown's pocket presence last game. There were many times I thought we were going to get crushed and lose the ball back there, but he just stepped up past the defender and made the throw.
If this loss was the first week of the season, or even the second and we were 0-2, we would be thinking - this was a great game, we feel like we are there and our Redbirds are going to do something special. But since this was a must win for us, this loss hurts and we are out of the playoff picture. They have to be able to hold on to leads if they want to win in the NFL.
Shipp had a few good runs, but his total yardage was pitiful because of the negative yard runs. He had one run on a first and 15 - he ran 15 yards for a first down. Awesome, but coach doesn't run to him again.
Here is an interesting stat - 2 years ago when the Patriots won the Super-Bowl, they were 27th in the league in rushing, but 6th in rushing attemps! That tells you that they just kept pounding tha ball, even though they were zero yard runs. It still wore down defenses. This is what the Cardinals should learn. I know its hard to give up what may be big yards - but sometimes this is what it takes.
I blame Green because of lack of discipline. Lenoard Davis has a false start every game. We had penalties that killed us again. We did not stick with the run. 20-10 going into the 4th qtr - we should just pound the ball and run it. Green also gave up - 2 timouts left and he did not use them with 55 seconds left. He conceded! Green sucks!
