All or nothing hits Amazon July 1st

[football karma]

We just had some key people get injured at the wrong time. We really missed HB out there and Palmer's bum finger was a huge deal. Also, I just think the team was gassed. The divisional playoff game took a lot out of them and couple that with a cross country trip and the team just lost steam.

my pov is simpler:
1. Carolina's offense was operating at a very high level -- this was going to be a game with some points scored
2. Arizona's offensive line play was barely average at that point in the season. Palmer was under pressure and so the offense just wasnt good
3. Some poor play at the wrong time from the Cards best players --


it happens sometimes

 

[Linderbee]

I'm so, so, SO sad I won't have this to watch next offseason.

 

[Covert Rain]

I am only on episode 2.

 

[Cardiac]

It wasn't that he wasn't going to tape it. He was taping it differently. Apparently, when he first got hurt, it was being taped up a certain way but it made him uncomfortable so they tried a different way. This is what I got out of that conversation.

That's what I recall as well. I think he said they taped it too tightly.

 

[Cardiac]

I'm so, so, SO sad I won't have this to watch next offseason.

Fully agree. I'm hoping that some, if not all the footage that we didn't see gets released at some point. There has to be hours and hours of good to great stuff they couldn't fit into the 8 episodes.

 

[BigRedRage]

finished it last night, great series, glad we got to be a part of it. likely wont care about next years version as it wont be such a great team on display

 

[Big D]

I was finally able to finish the series tonight. It was very well done and I thoroughly enjoyed reliving the highs and lows of one of the best seasons of Cardinals football ever.

In fairness I have to offer some criticism and say there were points where it seemed the like the producers tried a little too hard and some scenes came off as a little over the top dramatic. Also there was a good deal of redundancy over the course of the 8 episodes.

That said I think this is something any football fan should enjoy regardless of team allegiance.

 

[Passepartout]

Hope that it will become a second season. As heard nothing but great things about it!

 

[SoCal Cardfan]

I'm about half way through it.....My wife now knows there are other people out there with a potty mouth worse than me!


Why why why..... Didn't this end up being "our year"?
I would have run this on an endless loop in my family room.

 

[RugbyMuffin]

Finished watching this a last week.

I came away with 3 things from this series (already talked about Michael Bidwill in another thread):

1. Larry Fitzgerald is everything you can ever want in a face of the franchise type player. I was surprised by his leadership, surprise by his passion, and it was good to see his personality is everything people say it is. How could you not feel for Fitzgerald after the Carolina game.

2. Bruce Arians gets it. He understands what sports are about, and that when you make winning more important than all things in life, you end up losing in the end. I love how he tell his coaches, and players to get in, get your work done, and go the hell home. Never understood the reasoning behind 60 hour work weeks, never understood why one game is worth more than teaching kids lessons about life, never understood any of that. Is the point to be good, and well prepared, or is the point to be able to stick your chest out and talk about how you do nothing but work all day long. Rest is important, family is important, personal standards are important, putting value in character is important. Why ? Because you body needs rest and if you do not have rest then you cannot concentrate well, if you cannot concentrate well, then really how much of that extra 20 hours a week is doing anything but providing bravado to your ego ? Family is important, it creates motivation, it gets people driven to put the work in. Personal standards, and character are important. Why ? Because EVERYONE is a good teammate, or good athlete, or a good competitor when things are going your way. But, being able to adapt, and take on challenges and low points, that is built through character, that is built through personal standards. There is a reason Bruce Arians and the Cardinals ran through the competition last year. Arians was blowing out teams that do the 60 hr work week, guess the extra 20 hours doesn't really matter. The Cardinals themselves, seemed to ooze character, and get stronger as the games went on. These are the little things, that many coaches and athletes bypass, because they are a "waste of time", or unimportant. Yet, it is also the difference between a Tyrann Mathieu and a Johnny Manziel.

3. I do not know if our team would have been able to beat the Panthers, or the Broncos. Yet, that NFC Championship game was not what the score dictated. Do not get me wrong, the Cardinals did everything a team could do, to put the Panthers in the drivers' set for that game. But, DAMN, it was exactly what the show forshadowed when they recorded Arians' speech after the first practice the week of the Championship game. The Cardinals did just enough to beat themselves, and the Panthers just jumped on what was left. I will say this, I think our team got better this offseason, and I think this team has what it takes to go to the next level next season.

Great series.

 

[Mitch]

Josh Weinfuss (ESPN)---to give credit where credit is due---has been doing a fabulous job of pulling highlights and insights from each of the 8 episodes. Here's what he wrote about Episode 8:

Bruce Arians didn't see Cardinals' blowout in NFC title game coming 'in a million years'
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TEMPE, Ariz. – As the Arizona Cardinals fell further behind the Carolina Panthers in last season’s NFC Championship Game, a greater sense of disbelief settled over their sideline.

With the game all but over late in the fourth quarter, coach Bruce Arians walked up to quarterback Carson Palmer and explained his astonishment at Arizona’s 49-15 loss.

“Not in a million years did I see this coming,” Arians said on the final episode of “All or Nothing,” the eight-part Amazon Video series that documented the Cardinals’ 2015 season.

Palmer replied: “Unbelievable. It really is.”

Arians then gave Palmer the option of kneeling on the game's final plays but Palmer refused, simply telling his head coach, “No.”

Calais Campbell complained on the sideline.

“We’re getting our ass kicked, that’s what’s going on,” defensive line coach Brentson Buckner responded.

Even the Cardinals’ front office couldn’t believe their eyes.

“We can’t play any worse,” general manager Steve Keim said.

What else we learned in Episode 8:

• Safety Tyrann Mathieu, who missed the NFC Championship Game because of his ACL injury, gave the team a tongue-lashing pep talk that week: “That’s why I don’t come around. It hurts so f---ing much but I know you all got me, but it ain’t about T. That’s all I read on headlines: ‘Do it for him.’ It ain’t about me. I didn’t do this poo for me. I did it for y’all. At the end of the day, this is all we got. This is how people are going to remember us. We ain’t no f---ing presidents and poo. This is how people are going to remember us, dog. So, why not go hard for this s---?”
  
  
• Wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald sees the end of his career on the horizon but he knows there’s one key element missing. “I do know my career is coming to an end and it would be great to be able to add that key component, the one that every player that plays the game aspires for, and that’s winning a championship,” Fitzgerald said.
  
  
• Pass-rush specialist Tom Pratt laid out an easy guide to tackling Panthers quarterback Cam Newton during the week leading up to the NFC title game. He stressed that the defense needed to keep their eyes focused between Newton’s waist and thighs. “Eyes on the thighs,” Pratt said. And if the Cardinals hit Newton high, Pratt warned he’d “shake you like a leaf.”
  
  
• Arians’ tune changed during the week of the NFC Championship Game. “We’re playing for a trophy. Not a hat and a T-shirt.”
  
  
• There was a bit of foreshadowing during the week of practice that predicted the Cardinals’ dismal performance against the Panthers. “We did enough things to beat ourselves and have no chance to win this game,” Arians said after one practice. The defense jumped offside five times that practice. The offense wasn’t much better. “Thank god we didn’t play today, but we got to get it corrected. This is us beating us. We can’t have none of that Sunday.”
  
  
• During a production meeting, Palmer said his right index finger was being taped to his right middle finger, which was affecting his throwing because the ball was rolling off his middle finger instead of the index finger. The Cardinals’ trainers figured out a different way to tape it, and Palmer said it was feeling better and his throwing improved.
  
  
• Arians shared his theme for the week of the NFC Championship Game with the TV production meeting: “Five two letter words are the most powerful sentence in the world: If it is to be, it is up to me. Put us in parentheses because it has to be me before it is us.”
  
  
• Running back David Johnson began to notice during that week that the Cardinals don’t get as much national media attention as other teams across the league. “I kinda feel like we’ve been the underdog, especially at Arizona. I noticed we don’t get too much publicity or anything like that. I feel like our whole season has been like this.”
  
  
• Arians unleased an epic tirade after cornerback Patrick Peterson fumbled a punt return that could’ve swung momentum and possibly the game to the Cardinals. “Jesus Chris, we had the m-----f----- right where we wanted it. F---ing three-and-out. We f---ing fumbled it.”
  
  
• Peterson said the wind caught the ball in the air and pushed it right at the last minute forcing him to adjust, which caused him muff the kick and subsequently fumble it.
  
  
• Secondary coach Nick Rapone gave his players a blueprint on how to work out this offseason during their last position meeting after losing to Carolina. “If you don’t practice every day thinking about a Super Bowl, we won’t get it. You got to think about it every single day you work out.”
  
  
• Running backs coach Stump Mitchell thought if Chris Johnson didn’t get hurt, the Cardinals would have won the Super Bowl.
  
  
• Mitchell also thought David Johnson showed he has what it takes to have a Hall of Fame career. “You should have a bust when your ass is done playing, hopefully, if you can stay healthy,” Mitchell said. “I’ve coached some good backs; ain’t no question you’re a Hall of Fame guy. None whatsoever.”
  
  
• Despite what Arians said publically about moving on from the loss soon after the game, he privately confided that it would sting for a while. “This one, you have about a seven-month rule because you got to [think about] this one for a long time.”
  

 

[azmike74]

Such a good series, I enjoyed it way more than I anticipated. I didn't think I would watch the last episode after reading some of the other poster's comments, but I'm glad I did. Like many others here, I've never been able to watch the Super Bowl and I wasn't sure I wanted to see the butt kicking Carolina put on us again, either.

 

[Dan H]

Compare and contrast Rashad Johnson's attitude at the end of the last episode to Carson's refusal to take a knee.

Wow.

 

[unseenaz]

Man I choose a bad time to rewatch this. Nostalgia kicking in real hard!

Can’t wait for the future and more great Cardinal football.