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You know, when I first became a Card fan, it was 1975, the year of the Cardiac Cards. After that season came the ups and downs(mostly down) where most Cardinal teams, after giving up a 14 point lead, would have crawled off the field in shame and then lose. Tonight, in an out of character move for me, I never lost faith in this team. Some were posting "we're going to lose this game, aren't we". And deep down, I mean, truly deep down, I knew we were going to win. The score aside it reminded me of the final game of the 1998 season against SD. We had a 2 possession lead in that game as well but the Chargers tied it up then with 22 seconds left then Eric Metcalf returns the kickoff to SD's 45 yard line and Plummer hits Frank Sanders for 10 yards then Jacke comes in and kicks the game winning FG. When it counted, that team found ways to win and with the exception of the 2 hiccups, this team is finding ways to win in the 2 biggest games of the season so far. With a little over a minute left and 85 yards to go, I knew we were going to win. With that, here's my analysis:
The Good
A Huge Win-Beating Seattle in Seattle last week and now beating an 8-1 team, an 8-1 damned good team, now those pointing out our schedule will have to find something else to nitpick.
Great Comeback By Carson Palmer-Carson had a bad 1st half. 2 picks in the first quarter and he just couldn't find a rhythm. Then in the 2nd half he found his moxie and had what is now a typical 4 TD game for him. Big win for him over his former team.
JJ Nelson-The next man up. Last week was Jaron Brown, this week it's JJ. Great game by the kid.
Dwight Freeney-So far the best FA signing of the year next to Iupati. The old man still has something left in the tank.
Fitz-What more can I say? The guy is a sure fire hall of famer and he's all ours.
Catman Can Do-Great clutch game winner by him. This should do wonders for his confidence.
Drew Butler-Sometimes you have to give credit where credit is due. He's been booming them lately.
The Bad
Horrible Time Out Management-Wasted a timeout in the 3rd quarter. Wasted #2 because we had 12 men on the field. Then wasted #3 on a terrible challenge by BA. Thankfully we didn't need them but that could have been disastrous.
Defense-Not their best effort but they were going up against a good offense but what puts them in the bad category is missed opportunities. Specifically having Cincy buried in a 3rd and 26 and we let them off the hook to quote Dennis Green. Not to mention the several 3rd and longs and let them live with stupid penalties.
Key Injuries-Losing Rucker and PP on defense contributed to Cincy's ability to move the ball at will at times.
Kick Coverage-That oh so close fumble aside, simply allowing Tate to damn near run back a 105 yard return was idiocy. What's worse is someone in the gameday thread actually blamed Cat for it.
The Ugly
Jerraud Powers-*sigh* You know, it's hard to blame a single person if a team loses but if we lost this game, I would be glaring in his direction for a week. I mean, he couldn't cover a book. He either plays 8 yards off his man or he ends up severely burnt because he doesn't have a clue on what planet he's on. This was the only ugly in the game.
Well, that's it. We have the horrible 49ers next week and should be able to pound them then those dirty Rams next before taking on a very tough Viking team. Great win with more to come.
The Good
A Huge Win-Beating Seattle in Seattle last week and now beating an 8-1 team, an 8-1 damned good team, now those pointing out our schedule will have to find something else to nitpick.
Great Comeback By Carson Palmer-Carson had a bad 1st half. 2 picks in the first quarter and he just couldn't find a rhythm. Then in the 2nd half he found his moxie and had what is now a typical 4 TD game for him. Big win for him over his former team.
JJ Nelson-The next man up. Last week was Jaron Brown, this week it's JJ. Great game by the kid.
Dwight Freeney-So far the best FA signing of the year next to Iupati. The old man still has something left in the tank.
Fitz-What more can I say? The guy is a sure fire hall of famer and he's all ours.
Catman Can Do-Great clutch game winner by him. This should do wonders for his confidence.
Drew Butler-Sometimes you have to give credit where credit is due. He's been booming them lately.
The Bad
Horrible Time Out Management-Wasted a timeout in the 3rd quarter. Wasted #2 because we had 12 men on the field. Then wasted #3 on a terrible challenge by BA. Thankfully we didn't need them but that could have been disastrous.
Defense-Not their best effort but they were going up against a good offense but what puts them in the bad category is missed opportunities. Specifically having Cincy buried in a 3rd and 26 and we let them off the hook to quote Dennis Green. Not to mention the several 3rd and longs and let them live with stupid penalties.
Key Injuries-Losing Rucker and PP on defense contributed to Cincy's ability to move the ball at will at times.
Kick Coverage-That oh so close fumble aside, simply allowing Tate to damn near run back a 105 yard return was idiocy. What's worse is someone in the gameday thread actually blamed Cat for it.
The Ugly
Jerraud Powers-*sigh* You know, it's hard to blame a single person if a team loses but if we lost this game, I would be glaring in his direction for a week. I mean, he couldn't cover a book. He either plays 8 yards off his man or he ends up severely burnt because he doesn't have a clue on what planet he's on. This was the only ugly in the game.
Well, that's it. We have the horrible 49ers next week and should be able to pound them then those dirty Rams next before taking on a very tough Viking team. Great win with more to come.
