Warts and all, I have always liked reading Bickely---
He's raw and often unplugged---and I like that.
I loved it when he wrote: "No other statistic is needed to describe our pain."
What I didn't love was seeing how the organization under Graves and Whisenhunt has allowed the following players to be held up as scapegoats:
Upon this sentiment I will go raw and unplugged myself"
Wilson?
I am sorry but this guy has been loyal and put his heart into the franchise 10,000 times more than any coach has.
Sure, he's gotten older---he is playing through pain that he never complains about, but has clearly hindered him a little from doing exactly what his mind wants him to do.
"We lost," was all Wilson could say. GOOD FOR HIM! This is why he is and always will be a winner.
If whomever coaches the team next year doesn't find a specialized role for him I will be furious.
If this past Sunday was Wilson's last game at U of P and he is playing somewhere else next year, I will be irate.
IT CANNOT END THIS WAY FOR #24. NO FREAKING WAY.
Dockett?
Coaches get the credit for supposedly "changing the culture"...but---other than Kurt Warner, who has changed the culture more in Arizona than Darnell Dockett?
Who coined the term "Birdgang"?
Who was on twitter rejoicing in every move the Cardinals tried to make or begging other players to come to AZ?
This guy has battled through more adversity in his lifetime and in his time at AZ than anyone in the organization.
And excuse me but I am glad he refused to lay down on the Jets---
Talk about double standards from the coaches---
A week earlier Dockett and his defensive compadres were being trotted out to the field every 1:15 minutes of playing time because the offense went a historic 0-15 on 3rd downs---and because his own head coach had quit on the team up 13-3 in the Atlanta game and it was now carrying over to the Jets game and refused to put in a QB who has 6 4th quarter comeback wins to his credit---
EVERYONE should know why Dockett refused to lay down---
BECAUSE he and his defensive Birdgang had been fighting their TAILS off to try to pitch a shutout in order to win---and fighting their TAILS off to do everything in their power to prevent the Falcons, the Jets or whomever one lousy inch of offense...
And now to be told to lay down? In THAT situation?
It means the coaches know absolutely NOTHING about a player's pride.
Plus---when you can't even gain a first down, how is a Ryan Lindley offense going to score 8 points with one minute and change left?
C'MON MAN---SERIOUSLY---C'MON MAN
At least leave the defensive players with their pride---at least they could say they held an opponent on the road to seven points, despite being on the field THE ENTIRE FOOTBALL GAME thanks to an 0-15 offense.
The poetic justice?
At least Rex Ryan, Shonn Greene and the Jets allowed what Whisenhunt couldn't do for Dockett and the Birdgang by taking a knee at the one inch line. Whisenhunt?
If this were the Super Bowl, fine.
This game was the freaking Toilet Bowl.
At least let Dockett & Gang walk off with their heads high.
John Skelton?
Let me put it this way---if last year John Skelton played the way Ryan Lindley has THIS year, last year would have been 4-12 at best.
The greatest irony of all?
Where would Ken Whisnhunt be without a defense that resurrected the season last year and Skelton who did enough to go 6-2?...which could easily have been 7-1 if Doucet doesn't botch the game winning TD pass in Cincy.
Now---Dockett, Wilson and Skelton, three key reasons why the Cardinals salvaged any semblance of respectability the past three years are on their way out---
UNFREAKING REAL.
