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I’m sure many of you have seen the movie Fight Club. It just so happens to be one of my favorite movies and there is a parallel in that movie to this message board. I am starting to see that art does in fact imitate life. In the beginning scenes of the movie, Edward Norton’s character suffers from insomnia. To counter his inability to fall asleep, he finds catharsis in relating to those who have it worse off than himself. So he goes to meetings like “testicular cancer” or “bacterial heart infections” and hears the patients bemoan their health, and being that he does not suffer the inevitable fate that most of them do, he can be at peace with himself.
To me this portion of the message board has become much like the different meetings he attends. Not to belittle those actually suffering from health related maladies but much the same, these threads are just as depressing for a passionate cardinal fan such as myself. Much like the weekly meetings for “spinal meningitis” and “brain parasites”, we instead have “support meetings” with threads like “Should Green should be fired” or “Who should we use the 2006 pick on?”…..Unfortunatly I suffer from the diagnosis of “Cardinal Fever” so this is no relief for me to read these depressing posts. Still I cant help but think forlorn NY Jets fans or Cleveland Browns fans come masquerade as viewers if only to feel better about their teams likely temporary malaise. After all it could be worse, you could be a Cards fan…..we know you are out there tourists…….
Anyway as it becomes harder and harder to come to this message board week after agonizing week, I will press on, although not with the ferverence I did up until last week. As many of you are aware of, it is very painful to relive the sickening three hours of cardinal football every Sunday over and over again during the week. So the traffic on this site will slow no doubt until around April when all us Kool aid drinkers will drunkenly get back on board the SS Titanic after convincing ourselves that Chad Greenway was in fact the right pick with the # 3 pick and that Brad Johnson will be able to duplicate his outstanding finish to 2006 in Cardinal Red….. Sigh….Some suggestions for the Bidwells:
Change the coach…again: I’m not like Mitch and Red Desert. I don’t think Denny is the main problem and I think even he is looking around and thinking “What the hell have I gotten myself into?” But I didn’t even see most of yesterdays game and you can tell the players have given up. On the game, on the season, and worst of all on the coach. Penalties, poor tackling and a bad running game/ oline all are at the feet of the coach whether he wants to take responsibility or not. No matter what happens this off season, you think anyone on the team is going to buy into Green’s direction next year. No way….from predicting 10 wins last year to giving us hope about this division this year, no one should buy into Denny anymore. While he spots the talent, for some reason they are not in the position to execute and you have to blame Green. Poor guy. What took him a decade to build in Minny, took about one and a half seasons to tear down in the desert. Our only option is going with a young coaching prospect stupid enough to think he can turn it around and thirsty enough for a chance in the NFL. Kirk Ferentz anyone?
Pay for Coordinators: Did anyone else read that Alex Gibbs blurb in the Republic last week? On how he called to be a part of the staff in the off season so he could be closer to home….AND WAS TURNED DOWN? Whether this was a call by Denny or a call up top some one needs to be fired over this egregious mistake. I am too the point where I don’t know if the Cardinals are just doing the PR money spending and then tightning up the purse strings behind the scenes where the public would less likely be call them on it. The first call of the off-season should be to Alex Gibbs bar none….
New interiors: With Alex Gibbs in the fold he should be referenced for every free agent line man possible. And then spend, spend, spend…….Runyan, Verba and any other guy willing to sign on the dotted line, please take our money. A competent DT should be selected in the second round for place next to Dockett. Someone will fall. And then we need to rectify the missing out on Pierce and Hartwell choices and get a guy like Davis out of Cleveland. It will cost money but a run stuffing MLB will help a lot. This season is going to cost the Bidwells a lot of money if they plan on anyone going to the stadium in Glendale….
A new corner: Nate Clements is too pricey for the Bills…..go get em.
A trade for a QB: We need to do what the Panthers did with Delhomme. Find a young guy who is a luxury for another team. Hopefully he has some talent and with the right coach he will blossom. And then Overpay for him to ensure you get your guy. I don’t care 2007 draft picks, Wilson, maybe even Fitz. This is just too important of a position and im not sure we will get the number one pick no matter how much we seem to deserve it to get Lienert. So if its Rivers, Schaub, Garrard, or even Drew Henson for gods sake (in college I thought he was THE MAN….i think he might be ready to blossom and he would come cheap) make a choice, pray you are right and go get em….
Fire Graves: What has he done since he has been here? What has he done before he was here? What will he do later….? Answer: Nothing
Draft Reggie Bush: The guy has the stardust on him and he might be so talented even we cant screw him up. The only sure thing in my mind coming out this year and might fall to #2 or #3 with people wrongly being worried about his stature. He will be a top 5 running back in three years time.
Change the name of the team: To the Arizona Phoenix….Curses don’t carry over too new names, do they??????
To me this portion of the message board has become much like the different meetings he attends. Not to belittle those actually suffering from health related maladies but much the same, these threads are just as depressing for a passionate cardinal fan such as myself. Much like the weekly meetings for “spinal meningitis” and “brain parasites”, we instead have “support meetings” with threads like “Should Green should be fired” or “Who should we use the 2006 pick on?”…..Unfortunatly I suffer from the diagnosis of “Cardinal Fever” so this is no relief for me to read these depressing posts. Still I cant help but think forlorn NY Jets fans or Cleveland Browns fans come masquerade as viewers if only to feel better about their teams likely temporary malaise. After all it could be worse, you could be a Cards fan…..we know you are out there tourists…….
Anyway as it becomes harder and harder to come to this message board week after agonizing week, I will press on, although not with the ferverence I did up until last week. As many of you are aware of, it is very painful to relive the sickening three hours of cardinal football every Sunday over and over again during the week. So the traffic on this site will slow no doubt until around April when all us Kool aid drinkers will drunkenly get back on board the SS Titanic after convincing ourselves that Chad Greenway was in fact the right pick with the # 3 pick and that Brad Johnson will be able to duplicate his outstanding finish to 2006 in Cardinal Red….. Sigh….Some suggestions for the Bidwells:
Change the coach…again: I’m not like Mitch and Red Desert. I don’t think Denny is the main problem and I think even he is looking around and thinking “What the hell have I gotten myself into?” But I didn’t even see most of yesterdays game and you can tell the players have given up. On the game, on the season, and worst of all on the coach. Penalties, poor tackling and a bad running game/ oline all are at the feet of the coach whether he wants to take responsibility or not. No matter what happens this off season, you think anyone on the team is going to buy into Green’s direction next year. No way….from predicting 10 wins last year to giving us hope about this division this year, no one should buy into Denny anymore. While he spots the talent, for some reason they are not in the position to execute and you have to blame Green. Poor guy. What took him a decade to build in Minny, took about one and a half seasons to tear down in the desert. Our only option is going with a young coaching prospect stupid enough to think he can turn it around and thirsty enough for a chance in the NFL. Kirk Ferentz anyone?
Pay for Coordinators: Did anyone else read that Alex Gibbs blurb in the Republic last week? On how he called to be a part of the staff in the off season so he could be closer to home….AND WAS TURNED DOWN? Whether this was a call by Denny or a call up top some one needs to be fired over this egregious mistake. I am too the point where I don’t know if the Cardinals are just doing the PR money spending and then tightning up the purse strings behind the scenes where the public would less likely be call them on it. The first call of the off-season should be to Alex Gibbs bar none….
New interiors: With Alex Gibbs in the fold he should be referenced for every free agent line man possible. And then spend, spend, spend…….Runyan, Verba and any other guy willing to sign on the dotted line, please take our money. A competent DT should be selected in the second round for place next to Dockett. Someone will fall. And then we need to rectify the missing out on Pierce and Hartwell choices and get a guy like Davis out of Cleveland. It will cost money but a run stuffing MLB will help a lot. This season is going to cost the Bidwells a lot of money if they plan on anyone going to the stadium in Glendale….
A new corner: Nate Clements is too pricey for the Bills…..go get em.
A trade for a QB: We need to do what the Panthers did with Delhomme. Find a young guy who is a luxury for another team. Hopefully he has some talent and with the right coach he will blossom. And then Overpay for him to ensure you get your guy. I don’t care 2007 draft picks, Wilson, maybe even Fitz. This is just too important of a position and im not sure we will get the number one pick no matter how much we seem to deserve it to get Lienert. So if its Rivers, Schaub, Garrard, or even Drew Henson for gods sake (in college I thought he was THE MAN….i think he might be ready to blossom and he would come cheap) make a choice, pray you are right and go get em….
Fire Graves: What has he done since he has been here? What has he done before he was here? What will he do later….? Answer: Nothing
Draft Reggie Bush: The guy has the stardust on him and he might be so talented even we cant screw him up. The only sure thing in my mind coming out this year and might fall to #2 or #3 with people wrongly being worried about his stature. He will be a top 5 running back in three years time.
Change the name of the team: To the Arizona Phoenix….Curses don’t carry over too new names, do they??????
