Hey, I was having a really good day until I read this and had to agree with you.
Thanks a lot.
I love reading this board but hate posting on it at this time of year. We're a week away from the new Football Outsiders annual to come out to give me some new perspective on the team, division, and league (super-excited). There are a lot of fans who are super-amped about guys whose names will be forgotten by everyone except ******s like me--and only so I can throw them in the face of the people who were certain that Stephen Williams was going to be the next Randy Moss (seriously, guys, do a search on "Stephen Williams" and "Randy Moss" on this board--let's not get ahead of ourselves here). I don't want to come in and remind them that "Mini Fitz" has no chance to make this roster. 
Sorry about that.
I like Chris Wells. I'm a little scarred from that convo last spring when I just said, "Let's not get ahead of ourselves here" and got jumped all over because I didn't think that Beanie was as good as Adrian Peterson and better than Maurice Jones-Drew. Sorry.
I'm mostly just boggled that people are ready to essentially cut ties on Beanie to give Ryan Williams more touches. Why? Because Beanie Wells can't stay healthy! WTF?
You're scarred? I'm the one who has the little Cardinal Red and Black cloud that follows him around and jinxes anyone I pimp. It's not Wells fault at all that he isn't as good as AP. It's mine. I don't know if you remember me posting a couple of years ago how I played in the Cardinals Charities Golf tournament two years in a row and both Cardinal players that were on my team got cut that fall. I haven't played since.
At least I can work it the other way sometimes. Like at halftime of the Cowboys game last year when I wrote I'd fix Kolb's problems and posted a scathing paragraph about him. One of the best Duckjake reverse jinxes of all time.
I don't think that's a you thing. I think that's a regular Cardinals fan thing. Thank God I lost a lot of weight during graduate school, or I wouldn't have had the motivation to get rid of my Jake Plummer jersey and the Bryant Johnson jersey my dad got me the Christmas of his rookie year (the team shop was all out of Anquan Boldins). Remember the year that the Cards gave away replica jerseys with season ticket packages? Weren't all three of the options off the team the next year?
One of the great things about the little run of success that we've had is that we've been able to keep a handful of players for more than five or six years. We'll have Fitz for more than a decade if he stays healthy. Same with Dockett and Wilson. Were there any 10-year Cardinal veterans on the 1997 team? On the 2008 team, even?
No, I'm not going to cry for you're being able to afford club seats and the easy entrance to the stadium or low-four-figure registration to the Cards' Charity Golf Tournament. You're lucky that I'm not organizing an Occupy DJ's Yard protest with desertdawg.
Happens to a lot of backs. Look up Frank Gore's numbers as the season went on. The upside is that despite being debilitatingly injured and the Cards having no plan whatsoever to help take the pressure off of him after Ryan Williams got hurt (it's shameful how frequently the Cards are caught with their pants down and no plan when someone goes down), Chris Wells alone assured that the run game was a legitimate option for the Cards' offense, and something opposing defenses had to account for.
I don't want John Skelton running the Kurt Warner/Kevin Kolb offense. I want John Skelton running Matt Ryan's offense. And you can't run Matt Ryan's offense without Michael Turner.
Beanie Wells is a poor-man's Michael Turner, but he's stuck in an offense that needs LeSean McCoy to be the starter.
Duck would probably bring us out some beer and hang out. We'd all get drunk and go occupy which ever neighbor Duck isn't gellin with, my money is on some Cowboy fan.I don't think that's a you thing. I think that's a regular Cardinals fan thing. Thank God I lost a lot of weight during graduate school, or I wouldn't have had the motivation to get rid of my Jake Plummer jersey and the Bryant Johnson jersey my dad got me the Christmas of his rookie year (the team shop was all out of Anquan Boldins). Remember the year that the Cards gave away replica jerseys with season ticket packages? Weren't all three of the options off the team the next year?
One of the great things about the little run of success that we've had is that we've been able to keep a handful of players for more than five or six years. We'll have Fitz for more than a decade if he stays healthy. Same with Dockett and Wilson. Were there any 10-year Cardinal veterans on the 1997 team? On the 2008 team, even?
No, I'm not going to cry for you're being able to afford club seats and the easy entrance to the stadium or low-four-figure registration to the Cards' Charity Golf Tournament. You're lucky that I'm not organizing an Occupy DJ's Yard protest with desertdawg.
