Game Grades

[OmahaCardsFan]

Defense:

Line: D- (No pass rush (again), Held their own on the run).
Backs: C- (Average at best. I know the DL didn't help.)
LB - B (They showed quickness, but blitzes they didn't help either)

Overall: D
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Special Teams - FFFFFFFF..... (This is being generous)
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Offense:

QB: B- (Did good but those 2 T/O's killed us cost us 14pts)
Line: C- (No running game (again))
Backs: B+ (They did what they could given the line's performance)
Rcvrs: D (overall, we had 2 receivers to throw to all day)
Boldin/Jones factor: (A - Gotta like these guys)

Overall: C
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Coaches: C (Bad use of clock and poor organization. Cost us.)
Side note: Dave needs to lose a few pounds man!
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Ownership/GM: F ( They failed by not capitalizing on help that was out there. We had the $'s but again they are to cheap to go get the help. - Wanting to wait a week to save a few bucks! That's pitiful!)
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TEAM GRADE: D+ (Nothing has changed from what I can see from last year. We just traded one player for another and ignored our needs. This is no excuse for not utilizing our Cap space for some players that
were available (and yes, we may have had to overpay because we are the Cardinals).

 

[arthurracoon]

I think thats accurate.

Special Teams: F-, 0%

 

[pinetopred]

Man when will you people see that sacks aren't what football is about we had presure on Joey all day we turned the ball over and our special teams sucked thats what lost the game.

 

[Stout]

Originally posted by pinetopred
Man when will you people see that sacks aren't what football is about we had presure on Joey all day we turned the ball over and our special teams sucked thats what lost the game.

Uh, what game were you watching? I saw Joey have a beautiful pocket in front of him (which the announcers even illustrated with the telestrator), take his time, check down to his third and fourth receivers (see the Schlesinger TD catch), step into his throws and deliver the football. What I did NOT see was significant pressure on Joey. Sorry, but it just wasn't there.

 

[seesred]

Joey had no pressure at any time. Blake was constantly being pressured. We had better have an answer for this next week. I'm the optimus always but that now is not true. I'm starting to see the glass half full. Our pass rush was not there. Remember Philly when we played the one legged QB? This was a QB without a running game and he was not sacked once period.

GBR

 

[pinetopred]

I disagree, we had ten times more pressure then we had last year during any game, we lost this game with our special teams. Get over the excuses our offense out preformed theres our defense was good enough to beat the Lions we lost this game in one area.

 

[pinetopred]

I saw Pace and Bryant getting pressure I think you people expect way to much when it comes to pass rush we got enough today to win. Our O-line underpreformed again, what shouldn't happen is our special teams can't lose us games and today they did.

 

[seesred]

Two scores were directly handed the Lions by Blake. One fumble and one intercept. The other Lion scores were directl;y the results of poor special teams.Despite the good play by Blake he had his hand in 14 Lion points. There were oonly a couple of occasions our Defense acutuly stopped them. Poor saftey play for the most part good corner play and only okay pressure at times.

21 points a good team would not have given these chumps. I'm sorry but it's true. The good news Bolden and that is the story.

GBR

 

[OmahaCardsFan]

Yeah, Blake turned over 2. But a good D will turn the Offense away. Our D did NOT do that once on any of the turnovers that occurred. They caved when we needed them. At least on the 2 where they had a chance to turn the Lions offense away. But they couldn't. Why, No sacks man! They simply cashed in on us when they needed to.

 

[Stout]

Originally posted by pinetopred
I saw Pace and Bryant getting pressure I think you people expect way to much when it comes to pass rush we got enough today to win.

Yeah, I actually expect us to sack the QB.

You saw this ghost pressure. I didn't, and the announcers sure didn't (they kept using the telestrator to show how Joey had all day to chuck the ball). Joey had time to check down to three or even four receivers and threw 4 touchdowns.

Special teams killed us...the lack of a real pass rush made it so we couldn't recover from those special teams fiascos and turnovers.

 

[JeffGollin]

F's to everyone - we win as a team/we lose as a team. We lost.