Arians: Palmer "didn't lose the damn game."

[PACardsFan]

best thing about last night was that it made our deficiencies GLARING. Our top 5 defense was a paper tiger all year, IMO. Whenever we played the best offenses in the league, what happened? We gave up 31 to Cincy, 32 and 36 to Seattle and 49 to Carolina. Now, with a healthy HB, we probably don't give up 49 yesterday, but I still think we get the wood laid to us pretty easily simply because against the best QBs in the game who have weapons, if you give them all day to throw, they're going to burn you. We couldn't rush the passer to save our live except one WILD game where we had 1/4 of our sacks for the season. And as far as our run D, a good chunk of that rating can be attributed to the fact that our offense getting off to huge leads meant opposing offenses had to abandon the run and start to pass early and often.

Bottom line for me if that the D did it this year with smoke and mirrors, but that can't continue. The front 7 can not continue to be as vanilla as it is, with role players pretty much EVERYWHERE and not one stud amongst the bunch.

Well said. I agree 100%. The Cardinals had a great season, but they had flaws that the better teams easily exposed.

 

[Stout]

Momentum was never with us "in a big way."

I disagree. We get the ball at midfield or, even better, if PP catches that and gets a bit of a return, how happy are Panther's fans? They just watched DJ carve them up, a three-and-out, and a shank punt. We're practically in FG range, which puts us down only 7, and a TD gets us to within 3. We would certainly have had the momentum there.

 

[cardpa]

While I agree with your point, I have zero respect for this so-called win probability chart. Momentum was with us in a big way at that point, and Palmer had been poised in the previous drive.

Totally agree with this, It's called a probability chart for a reason.

 

[cardpa]

I disagree. We get the ball at midfield or, even better, if PP catches that and gets a bit of a return, how happy are Panther's fans? They just watched DJ carve them up, a three-and-out, and a shank punt. We're practically in FG range, which puts us down only 7, and a TD gets us to within 3. We would certainly have had the momentum there.

Stout is right here, that muffed punt took a lot of air out of the team. You could see it in their body language. I know it took a lot of steam out of me watching the game. I was thinking the same thing, a FG gets us within 7 and a TD makes it a brand new ball game. This was probably the biggest momentum swinger in the entire game.

Listening to Shannon Sharpe on the NFL network he spoke about how in regular season games momentum will swing back and forth several times however in playoff games the opposite is true. There will be only one or two changes in momentum in the entire game and when it swings it's hard to get back. Whoever can seize those changes will probably win the game. This was one of those swings. Considering the guy has played in a fair number of playoff games he might know what he is talking about.

 

[conraddobler]

What they have to learn from that game is that all you have to do is relax and play football.

The more relaxed team will generally win because they don't try too hard. PP was trying too hard. Carson was trying too hard.

The thing that defines teams that win a lot of games in big situations is that they are able to the same thing they do all the time in the pressure situation.

When you think about it, it's LAUGHABLE to ask a professional to up their game in an intense pressure situation because they are a professional and you are pretty much supposed to perform that way anytime you play.

We didn't need PP to do what he did we just needed him to let that one go which in the regular season I'm thinking he would have. In the regular season Carson would probably not have thrown that first pic.

Coaches have to continue to re-enforce that winning those games is IN SPITE Of being jacked up. You always are fighting just to get them to do what they already know how to do.

 

[juza76]

He cant say differently
He need to give palmer enough credibility especially in the Eyes of his teammates