Mitch
Crawled Through 5 FB Fields
The coaching errors were so numerous...let's just highlight a few.
* We saw why THT has been the starter...Wells can't block or catch nearly as well. Wells cost us juggling the pass on the first drive and then cost us the first pick six...although I will add another coaching gaffe to this one, which will be redundant because as long as Whiz has been the coach here the team has had no clue as to how to prepare for or ensure they will block the edge rushers...on that play, TE Ben Patrick...yes Ben Patrick is in the backfield to the double edge threat side and Beanie Wells is on the opposite side. On the snap, what does Patrick do? He runs a flare route...which...apparently he was coached to do...and if it's LSH that's one thing, but even if Patrick catches the flare, what's he get 2-3 yards at best? So Patrick runs right away from the two players who blew up the play. Beanie has to come all the way from the other side, and he allows the outside man to blow right past him.
* Let's just get this straight...Max Hall was not at fault for the first pick six. The 2nd pick six is on him for sure, but...how is it that a play is called where Hall is expected to throw a 12 yard out from the far hash mark? You have to question the play call and the thinking there...especially if the game plan was supposed to be simplified to suit Max's strenghts.
* Not that I am optimistic about Max Hall's chances to even play again this year...that 2nd pick six was really the only egregious mistake he made. The irony is...he had just made his best play of the day a play earlier when he avoided blind egde pressure stepped to his left and threw a strike to Breaston.
* How about, with DA at QB to start the second half, the WR screen to Doucet on 3rd and 10, after the team had been bailed out on another turnover? That was about as awful a play call as there is. It's a quitter's call.
* Similarly as Hall in some respects in terms of making one hideous mistake, and very oddly, Derek Anderson was playing by far his best game as a Cardinal, when he threw the unthinkable pass, down 38-35 and well into FG range and on 1st down to boot.
* The funny thing was...apparently DA had lulled Whiz into a false sense of security, because even with Kurt Warner at QB, Whiz in that same situation, down, distance and under 3 minutes left...with the Bucs having no timeouts, he would have run the ball to try to work the clock down and try to punch it in on the ground from there...and at worst kick the game tying FG with no time left to send the game into OT.
* The problem was...and this speaks volumes...Whiz must have been worried that he couldn't run the ball with 2 fumble prone RBs...and felt that passing with DA was safer. So here's the reality: the Cardinals have 2 QB who are interception prone and 2 RBs who are fumble prone.
* Regardless, the team needs to be better coached in these types of situations...thus far this year they have handled the end of halfs on both offense and especially on defense so badly, the coaching looks conspicuously deficient. Check the defense's performance at the end of both halfs...you can make a great argument that the defense's lapses at the end of each half cost the Cardinals the game.
* How about the defense's response to the offense giving the team the lead? In the first half, the response was a 3 play 80 yard TD drive...then followed---thanks to a missed tackle by Adrian Wilson on 3rd and 7 indide the 10 yard line, a 94 yard drive from the 4 yard line following the missed 4th and 2 from from the 4 yard line...and then late in the 4th with the lead they give up a bomb to Benn on a play where not a single Cardinal got to within a 5 yard radius of Freeman...the reality is the coaches and the players have no sense of what pressure means to winning football games. Funny how the Bucs get a sack and strip (thanks to a pitiful Levi Brown effort) with the game on the line and the Cardinals don't even breathe on Freeman when it matters most...THIS has been the pattern with Pendergast and Davis as DCs. Remember the Super Bowl. Nothing is different...and right now it looks even worse than ever.
* As for the going for it on 4th and 2...OK, Whiz, big guts to go for it, sure...but...as demoralized as the team was following the second pick six, to answer with some points in that situation (it's still the first half) to cut it to 21-17 at halftime, is not such a bad idea...but what makes the decision all the more egregious was sitting there with 1 TO left and instead of using it on such a key play in the game, you rush the play in where it puts all the players in a frantic mode and you have DA rush the snap with the play clock turniing to zero. And you WHIZ are watching this unfold standing right next to an official. This is just such bad clock management...it's just unacceptable...and what's also unacceptable were the late play calls and personnel confusion when Hall was in the game. One reason why you don't give the team like this a total week off during the bye week is to make sure inexcusable blunders like these don't happen and/or continue to happen.
* Even worse, that 1 TO you had left in the 1st half...was never used. You should have at least used it trying to stop the Bucs from going 94 yards in the last 2 minutes.
* How about the defense giving up a 40 yard run to Blount on first down pinned on their own 14 yard line...with the game on the line and 2:14 to go? Did you see the personnel for that play? Alan Branch was playing on the edge at DE...that's right, Alan Branch...and on the snap he crashes to the inside. All one can say is WTFATCT (what the f are the coaches thinking?). Does anyone here think that Alan Branch is the best edge player for that situation?
* Rough day all around fror Kerry Rhodes...burned twice deep, a Cardinal sin for FSs. He atoned somewhat with the FG block. But, he was poor all day, poor in coverage and poor in tackling...as were most of the Cardinals.
* The big and notciebale difference is, the Bucs played much more physical on defense...they stuck the ballcarriers and WRs repeatedly (knocking the wind out of many Cardinals)...whereas our defenders played thump most of the time when they weren't arm tackling.
* Why, after seeing that Mike Williams was the key WR and deep threat, wasn't DRC wasn't assigned to him, especially if Rhodes is playing so cluelessly...why?
* But this was the thing all day with DRC and Rhodes, they stopped running hard and reacting quickly on plays as if they thought the plays were over and got burned repeatedly. DRC is just plain spaced-out. He quits on plays and has no sense of urgency. Rhodes took the afternoon off. And Wilson, is still out of sorts. Why he isn't on the edge or up the middle rushing more often is another sign that the coaches do not know what his best strengths are.
* Bye Week #2 Coming Up. Knowing the Cardinal players, most of them will not even show up in Minnesota next week, feeling that they can win the fans back versus Seattle at home. And sadly the Cardinals' coaches seem to lack the gravitas to do anything about it.
* We saw why THT has been the starter...Wells can't block or catch nearly as well. Wells cost us juggling the pass on the first drive and then cost us the first pick six...although I will add another coaching gaffe to this one, which will be redundant because as long as Whiz has been the coach here the team has had no clue as to how to prepare for or ensure they will block the edge rushers...on that play, TE Ben Patrick...yes Ben Patrick is in the backfield to the double edge threat side and Beanie Wells is on the opposite side. On the snap, what does Patrick do? He runs a flare route...which...apparently he was coached to do...and if it's LSH that's one thing, but even if Patrick catches the flare, what's he get 2-3 yards at best? So Patrick runs right away from the two players who blew up the play. Beanie has to come all the way from the other side, and he allows the outside man to blow right past him.
* Let's just get this straight...Max Hall was not at fault for the first pick six. The 2nd pick six is on him for sure, but...how is it that a play is called where Hall is expected to throw a 12 yard out from the far hash mark? You have to question the play call and the thinking there...especially if the game plan was supposed to be simplified to suit Max's strenghts.
* Not that I am optimistic about Max Hall's chances to even play again this year...that 2nd pick six was really the only egregious mistake he made. The irony is...he had just made his best play of the day a play earlier when he avoided blind egde pressure stepped to his left and threw a strike to Breaston.
* How about, with DA at QB to start the second half, the WR screen to Doucet on 3rd and 10, after the team had been bailed out on another turnover? That was about as awful a play call as there is. It's a quitter's call.
* Similarly as Hall in some respects in terms of making one hideous mistake, and very oddly, Derek Anderson was playing by far his best game as a Cardinal, when he threw the unthinkable pass, down 38-35 and well into FG range and on 1st down to boot.
* The funny thing was...apparently DA had lulled Whiz into a false sense of security, because even with Kurt Warner at QB, Whiz in that same situation, down, distance and under 3 minutes left...with the Bucs having no timeouts, he would have run the ball to try to work the clock down and try to punch it in on the ground from there...and at worst kick the game tying FG with no time left to send the game into OT.
* The problem was...and this speaks volumes...Whiz must have been worried that he couldn't run the ball with 2 fumble prone RBs...and felt that passing with DA was safer. So here's the reality: the Cardinals have 2 QB who are interception prone and 2 RBs who are fumble prone.
* Regardless, the team needs to be better coached in these types of situations...thus far this year they have handled the end of halfs on both offense and especially on defense so badly, the coaching looks conspicuously deficient. Check the defense's performance at the end of both halfs...you can make a great argument that the defense's lapses at the end of each half cost the Cardinals the game.
* How about the defense's response to the offense giving the team the lead? In the first half, the response was a 3 play 80 yard TD drive...then followed---thanks to a missed tackle by Adrian Wilson on 3rd and 7 indide the 10 yard line, a 94 yard drive from the 4 yard line following the missed 4th and 2 from from the 4 yard line...and then late in the 4th with the lead they give up a bomb to Benn on a play where not a single Cardinal got to within a 5 yard radius of Freeman...the reality is the coaches and the players have no sense of what pressure means to winning football games. Funny how the Bucs get a sack and strip (thanks to a pitiful Levi Brown effort) with the game on the line and the Cardinals don't even breathe on Freeman when it matters most...THIS has been the pattern with Pendergast and Davis as DCs. Remember the Super Bowl. Nothing is different...and right now it looks even worse than ever.
* As for the going for it on 4th and 2...OK, Whiz, big guts to go for it, sure...but...as demoralized as the team was following the second pick six, to answer with some points in that situation (it's still the first half) to cut it to 21-17 at halftime, is not such a bad idea...but what makes the decision all the more egregious was sitting there with 1 TO left and instead of using it on such a key play in the game, you rush the play in where it puts all the players in a frantic mode and you have DA rush the snap with the play clock turniing to zero. And you WHIZ are watching this unfold standing right next to an official. This is just such bad clock management...it's just unacceptable...and what's also unacceptable were the late play calls and personnel confusion when Hall was in the game. One reason why you don't give the team like this a total week off during the bye week is to make sure inexcusable blunders like these don't happen and/or continue to happen.
* Even worse, that 1 TO you had left in the 1st half...was never used. You should have at least used it trying to stop the Bucs from going 94 yards in the last 2 minutes.
* How about the defense giving up a 40 yard run to Blount on first down pinned on their own 14 yard line...with the game on the line and 2:14 to go? Did you see the personnel for that play? Alan Branch was playing on the edge at DE...that's right, Alan Branch...and on the snap he crashes to the inside. All one can say is WTFATCT (what the f are the coaches thinking?). Does anyone here think that Alan Branch is the best edge player for that situation?
* Rough day all around fror Kerry Rhodes...burned twice deep, a Cardinal sin for FSs. He atoned somewhat with the FG block. But, he was poor all day, poor in coverage and poor in tackling...as were most of the Cardinals.
* The big and notciebale difference is, the Bucs played much more physical on defense...they stuck the ballcarriers and WRs repeatedly (knocking the wind out of many Cardinals)...whereas our defenders played thump most of the time when they weren't arm tackling.
* Why, after seeing that Mike Williams was the key WR and deep threat, wasn't DRC wasn't assigned to him, especially if Rhodes is playing so cluelessly...why?
* But this was the thing all day with DRC and Rhodes, they stopped running hard and reacting quickly on plays as if they thought the plays were over and got burned repeatedly. DRC is just plain spaced-out. He quits on plays and has no sense of urgency. Rhodes took the afternoon off. And Wilson, is still out of sorts. Why he isn't on the edge or up the middle rushing more often is another sign that the coaches do not know what his best strengths are.
* Bye Week #2 Coming Up. Knowing the Cardinal players, most of them will not even show up in Minnesota next week, feeling that they can win the fans back versus Seattle at home. And sadly the Cardinals' coaches seem to lack the gravitas to do anything about it.
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