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But my God - we are absolutely witnessing something that I don't think anyone - even the darksiders - could have been adeqautely prepared for - This is going to be the worst NFL season in NFL history for any team. Now you may think I'm jumping the gun here - but hear me out.
It dates back to the offseason - First - no one was held accoutnable for our failure last year except our offensive coordinator - a guy ho had to deal with more injuries than anyone I can ever remember. Sure he deserved the axe even though the year beofre he actually had this offense looking somewhat respectable - but he wasn't one of Mac's guys from the old days. No those guys got a free pass - apparently - consistently giving up 30 plus points a game is okay in Mac's book - hell - our guys who are out of camp - "are missing some damn fine tuting coaching right now" - right Mac?
And then there was the hiring of an offensive coordinator - well - it looks like Jerry Sullivan might get lucky and get out of here - well, we can't let our only good ocach leave the team - why not promote him to OC after interviewing the sorriest sack of potential OC's I can ever remember. There was a problem - Suly didn't even want to be the OC and had to be talked into and has gone on record that after this stint is done, he will probably go back to being a receiver's coach - I wonder what he's thinking now?
Then, player personell decision started - We resigned Marcel Shipp - great move! This guy is finally gonn a be that back we've all been waiting for -the back who makes the rest of the offense atcually run smoothly. Next came McKinnon, Wakefield and Davis - not a one should be on an NFL roster - and are of course starters on ours. Well - okay depth signings, we hope - like way down on the dpeth chart because while Mac's got a big heart, the body just ain't willing anymore and as far as the other two are concerend, well I think Mean Joe Greene has taught them as much as they had talent - bothing bothing on that end.
Then came free agency. There was the failure to get any compensation for David Boston and the even more mind-numbing decision to not even try to get that compensation. The media mocked us - good for potential free agents in the future - right?
Next - we have free agency pickups - where we completely destory the good we ad done with Marcel and make the horrible decision to bring in Emmitt Smith as the most shameful attempt at a PR move as I have ever seen - everyone knew it then, everyone certainly is laughing now as not only wasn't there a boost in ticket sales - but we opened the season with the worst opening crowd in team history - not to mention this weekend's game - but I'll save that for later. But gain - we are mocked and ridiculed by everyone.
Next came whiffing on the players we need most to sign and the luck of ligthing that hit Kordell Stewart right before he was about decide to take Rod Graves offer to be our starting QB - we dodged a bullet there - but man - I guess with our Cards it better to be lucky than good (of course this group of people right now wouldn't know good if it hit them in the face, so they just have to pray to be lucky).
We signed a few nice complimentary guys, decided to move our best offensive linemen to C because it was cheap to just move guys around rather than pay an actual center. So free agency ended and we still had a glaring problem at D-Line - a problem for years and we still are competent to even do anything here.
So - we whiffed on coaching decisions for the whole and on free agency - there's always the draft . . .
ESPN laughing at us - Calvin Pace (who has zero sacks and hasn't come close to making one play in this league yet) and Bryant Johnson? Terrel Suggs, Lefty - a QB and a DE - two things this club has lacked for years - but hey e don't want those guys and actually we get swindled by the Saints. We get Anquan because Tolbert has to out talk everyone else in the room - good thing Graves was probably drunk from Cradinal Kool-aid at the point and apprently wasn't involved - I mean how could he be - it was a great move. Bottom line is the draft came and went and once again we were laughed at by everyone again - another time for us to shine for potential head coaches and next year's free agents.
Then we come to the dead period, sitting on 14 million dollars in cap room - but wait till June 1st Graves said - okayu - we wait til June 1st and it came and went and so did the summer, but the cap space was still there - how come we weren't trying to improve the "BELLY" of the team - apparently Graves thought he had completely done so and his theories would prove correct - just wait till you see us play. Hey, we have our starting DE go down with an ACL - but we don't need to bring in another DL - right? No then we'd have to cut someone like Bryan Young or some other poor schmoe who likely couldn't make an arena squad.
Both picks come in by mid-first week of camp - mind you not before camp - but still a change somewhat - at least they were just missing days instead of months - right? Well, one of those draft picks makes national news by getting taken to the hospital for beibg too drunk - ugh - okay - he's young and it's okay - but it still looks bad nonetheless.
Then we have our 4-0 preseason - YAHOO! Mac thinks it's important to win preseason games - well of course he does - he doesn't know what it's like to be a winner and he'll take 'em anyway he can get 'em. Well optimism runs high and then the season begins . . .
And what happens we get shellacked by the LIONS in the second half - outscored 28-3 - the Lions - the worst team in the league for the last two years. Okay - first game abberration.
Game 2 - The most pathetic performance I have ever seen 38-0. The game was over on the first play - I knew it everyone on the sidelines knew it and everyone in that baking hot tsadium knew it. Of course Mac won't tolerate losses like these.
Something is really starting to stink as players from other teams start talking about knowing our calls and plays - really distubring news - but hey this can't be true - our coaches can't be this stupid - right? Phhuuuleeze!
Week 3 - God smiled on us. This game was nothing more than a lfat out ridiculous fluke that we only won because Green Bay was exhausted and had their recievers completely banged up. We were one play away from being 0-3 - but it was respite and hey now we can buyild on something. Meanwhile, our only free agent to pay off any dividends at this point was Dexter Jackson - Emmitt had yet to rush over 65 yards and a draft that has done nothing (even with allof Anquan's yards) to make either the defense or the offense better.
Week 4 - now it's starting to get real ugly - we come out and get manhandled by a team who doesn't even have it's starting QB or all-star Running Back. Of course we were the typcial - NOW THE RAMS ARE BACK - perfromance that I warned everyone about and the wheels start coming - Graves isn't talking to the media - we are starting to get laughed at by the media - actually more like pity - and well - now there's a kid by the name of Suggs who's getting as many sacks as he's played games. Someone who actually makes a difference on a Ravens club who has had a major overhaul of their championshiop defense and was actually mediocre last year. But Anquan sets another record also - too bad it does nothing to swing the way this game goes - but good job regardless Tolbert! Oh yeah, Emmitt's still getting the majority of the carriers, not gaining yards and Shipp is on the bench "learning".
Next come the abomination - DALLAS - There are so many reasons why this game was so embarassing but over course the biggest reason it's that way is because of the national attention this game got - This was the game where the unthinkable happened - it couldn't be possible right? Never a chance in hell right? Wrong - this was the game THE CARDINALS TURNED EMMIT SMITH INTO A LOSER - yNow that's pretty harsh - but that is what everyone thinks. It's really sad - watching fox and espn and cnn and local news feeling so sorry for Emmitt - they don't feel sorry for the team - they hate the team and now I really know why - They have killed Emmitt Smith - no one wants to see that - No one wanted to see Willie Mays falling dwon in centerfield and no one wants to watch this - It's not fair - but the Cardinals managed to do it - they made Emmitt Smith a loser - crying after the game - referring to the cowboys as "My Teamates" - But let's go on because I hate Emmitt and Don't want to waste any more space on him.
Let's talk about the actual game - Our one scroing drive was 26 yards - 26 yards! Again we held to under 170 yards of toal offense - we are drilled by the cowboys AND we give up back to back safeties?! Are you kidding me?
And what is done about it? Nothing. No messages need to be sent right - by bascially not taking action against any type of head coach the ownership continues to tell it's coaches that they are not accountable for anything that happens and I think I know why - this team is going to be horrid regardless and by thinking Bidwillian - well- if we do make a statement about not accepting this type of drek by firing SOMEONE - well then we will be paying them for doing nothing - So make a statement about your passion for winning and denial of anything but this best or save money and look like losers? Well we'll see what happens here - but someone should have been held responsible already.
So there we have it - on our way to worst the season in NFL history - now we may win 3 games and we may not tie the record for most losses in a season - but for a myriad of reasons - this will be a team laughed at once all is said and done - Laughed at during Free Agency, laughed at during the draft, laughed at at June 1st cuts, laughed at as the season started and now hated and pitied.
Now if you've read this so far - you're probably asking yourself - WHAT'S THE POINT? Well - we will have to get a new coach at the end of this season and that is the biggest decision a franchise to make - and the person making that decision is driectly or indirectly responsible for everything that has made this the worst season in memory - That person does not deserve a second chance - when his second chance is going to revolve arounda coaching decision that will have ramifications for half a decade. If this season goes as I fear and know it will - I will be sick to my stomach if Graves gets to stay on and a pick our new coach - although if he consults with Tyke Tolbert, the I might just breathe a little easier.
So thank you Rod Graves -we you have done trully the unimagineable - you have took the Cardinals from being a bad team - to literally the laughingstock of the league - wait - I can't even say laughing stock when so many people have ill-will for what we've done to Emmitt (mind you - I think he dserves whatever is coming to him for being greedy and taking the bushels of cash instead of trying to play for a winner) - and the rest just pity us.
I'm going to take a few days off the board as I likely feel that I won't be the most popular person here - but what I'm talking about is important - no way in hell should someone who has screwed up so badly for this team and brought upon it the scorn and ridicule from the rest of the league and media that if faces right now should dictate how our Sundays are going to be for the next 5 years.
EDIT: Sorry about spelling and the grammar mistakes - that was just an impassioned rant written in the wee hours, coming off editing for nine hours straight and taking some relief out on my keyboard.
It dates back to the offseason - First - no one was held accoutnable for our failure last year except our offensive coordinator - a guy ho had to deal with more injuries than anyone I can ever remember. Sure he deserved the axe even though the year beofre he actually had this offense looking somewhat respectable - but he wasn't one of Mac's guys from the old days. No those guys got a free pass - apparently - consistently giving up 30 plus points a game is okay in Mac's book - hell - our guys who are out of camp - "are missing some damn fine tuting coaching right now" - right Mac?
And then there was the hiring of an offensive coordinator - well - it looks like Jerry Sullivan might get lucky and get out of here - well, we can't let our only good ocach leave the team - why not promote him to OC after interviewing the sorriest sack of potential OC's I can ever remember. There was a problem - Suly didn't even want to be the OC and had to be talked into and has gone on record that after this stint is done, he will probably go back to being a receiver's coach - I wonder what he's thinking now?
Then, player personell decision started - We resigned Marcel Shipp - great move! This guy is finally gonn a be that back we've all been waiting for -the back who makes the rest of the offense atcually run smoothly. Next came McKinnon, Wakefield and Davis - not a one should be on an NFL roster - and are of course starters on ours. Well - okay depth signings, we hope - like way down on the dpeth chart because while Mac's got a big heart, the body just ain't willing anymore and as far as the other two are concerend, well I think Mean Joe Greene has taught them as much as they had talent - bothing bothing on that end.
Then came free agency. There was the failure to get any compensation for David Boston and the even more mind-numbing decision to not even try to get that compensation. The media mocked us - good for potential free agents in the future - right?
Next - we have free agency pickups - where we completely destory the good we ad done with Marcel and make the horrible decision to bring in Emmitt Smith as the most shameful attempt at a PR move as I have ever seen - everyone knew it then, everyone certainly is laughing now as not only wasn't there a boost in ticket sales - but we opened the season with the worst opening crowd in team history - not to mention this weekend's game - but I'll save that for later. But gain - we are mocked and ridiculed by everyone.
Next came whiffing on the players we need most to sign and the luck of ligthing that hit Kordell Stewart right before he was about decide to take Rod Graves offer to be our starting QB - we dodged a bullet there - but man - I guess with our Cards it better to be lucky than good (of course this group of people right now wouldn't know good if it hit them in the face, so they just have to pray to be lucky).
We signed a few nice complimentary guys, decided to move our best offensive linemen to C because it was cheap to just move guys around rather than pay an actual center. So free agency ended and we still had a glaring problem at D-Line - a problem for years and we still are competent to even do anything here.
So - we whiffed on coaching decisions for the whole and on free agency - there's always the draft . . .
ESPN laughing at us - Calvin Pace (who has zero sacks and hasn't come close to making one play in this league yet) and Bryant Johnson? Terrel Suggs, Lefty - a QB and a DE - two things this club has lacked for years - but hey e don't want those guys and actually we get swindled by the Saints. We get Anquan because Tolbert has to out talk everyone else in the room - good thing Graves was probably drunk from Cradinal Kool-aid at the point and apprently wasn't involved - I mean how could he be - it was a great move. Bottom line is the draft came and went and once again we were laughed at by everyone again - another time for us to shine for potential head coaches and next year's free agents.
Then we come to the dead period, sitting on 14 million dollars in cap room - but wait till June 1st Graves said - okayu - we wait til June 1st and it came and went and so did the summer, but the cap space was still there - how come we weren't trying to improve the "BELLY" of the team - apparently Graves thought he had completely done so and his theories would prove correct - just wait till you see us play. Hey, we have our starting DE go down with an ACL - but we don't need to bring in another DL - right? No then we'd have to cut someone like Bryan Young or some other poor schmoe who likely couldn't make an arena squad.
Both picks come in by mid-first week of camp - mind you not before camp - but still a change somewhat - at least they were just missing days instead of months - right? Well, one of those draft picks makes national news by getting taken to the hospital for beibg too drunk - ugh - okay - he's young and it's okay - but it still looks bad nonetheless.
Then we have our 4-0 preseason - YAHOO! Mac thinks it's important to win preseason games - well of course he does - he doesn't know what it's like to be a winner and he'll take 'em anyway he can get 'em. Well optimism runs high and then the season begins . . .
And what happens we get shellacked by the LIONS in the second half - outscored 28-3 - the Lions - the worst team in the league for the last two years. Okay - first game abberration.
Game 2 - The most pathetic performance I have ever seen 38-0. The game was over on the first play - I knew it everyone on the sidelines knew it and everyone in that baking hot tsadium knew it. Of course Mac won't tolerate losses like these.
Something is really starting to stink as players from other teams start talking about knowing our calls and plays - really distubring news - but hey this can't be true - our coaches can't be this stupid - right? Phhuuuleeze!
Week 3 - God smiled on us. This game was nothing more than a lfat out ridiculous fluke that we only won because Green Bay was exhausted and had their recievers completely banged up. We were one play away from being 0-3 - but it was respite and hey now we can buyild on something. Meanwhile, our only free agent to pay off any dividends at this point was Dexter Jackson - Emmitt had yet to rush over 65 yards and a draft that has done nothing (even with allof Anquan's yards) to make either the defense or the offense better.
Week 4 - now it's starting to get real ugly - we come out and get manhandled by a team who doesn't even have it's starting QB or all-star Running Back. Of course we were the typcial - NOW THE RAMS ARE BACK - perfromance that I warned everyone about and the wheels start coming - Graves isn't talking to the media - we are starting to get laughed at by the media - actually more like pity - and well - now there's a kid by the name of Suggs who's getting as many sacks as he's played games. Someone who actually makes a difference on a Ravens club who has had a major overhaul of their championshiop defense and was actually mediocre last year. But Anquan sets another record also - too bad it does nothing to swing the way this game goes - but good job regardless Tolbert! Oh yeah, Emmitt's still getting the majority of the carriers, not gaining yards and Shipp is on the bench "learning".
Next come the abomination - DALLAS - There are so many reasons why this game was so embarassing but over course the biggest reason it's that way is because of the national attention this game got - This was the game where the unthinkable happened - it couldn't be possible right? Never a chance in hell right? Wrong - this was the game THE CARDINALS TURNED EMMIT SMITH INTO A LOSER - yNow that's pretty harsh - but that is what everyone thinks. It's really sad - watching fox and espn and cnn and local news feeling so sorry for Emmitt - they don't feel sorry for the team - they hate the team and now I really know why - They have killed Emmitt Smith - no one wants to see that - No one wanted to see Willie Mays falling dwon in centerfield and no one wants to watch this - It's not fair - but the Cardinals managed to do it - they made Emmitt Smith a loser - crying after the game - referring to the cowboys as "My Teamates" - But let's go on because I hate Emmitt and Don't want to waste any more space on him.
Let's talk about the actual game - Our one scroing drive was 26 yards - 26 yards! Again we held to under 170 yards of toal offense - we are drilled by the cowboys AND we give up back to back safeties?! Are you kidding me?
And what is done about it? Nothing. No messages need to be sent right - by bascially not taking action against any type of head coach the ownership continues to tell it's coaches that they are not accountable for anything that happens and I think I know why - this team is going to be horrid regardless and by thinking Bidwillian - well- if we do make a statement about not accepting this type of drek by firing SOMEONE - well then we will be paying them for doing nothing - So make a statement about your passion for winning and denial of anything but this best or save money and look like losers? Well we'll see what happens here - but someone should have been held responsible already.
So there we have it - on our way to worst the season in NFL history - now we may win 3 games and we may not tie the record for most losses in a season - but for a myriad of reasons - this will be a team laughed at once all is said and done - Laughed at during Free Agency, laughed at during the draft, laughed at at June 1st cuts, laughed at as the season started and now hated and pitied.
Now if you've read this so far - you're probably asking yourself - WHAT'S THE POINT? Well - we will have to get a new coach at the end of this season and that is the biggest decision a franchise to make - and the person making that decision is driectly or indirectly responsible for everything that has made this the worst season in memory - That person does not deserve a second chance - when his second chance is going to revolve arounda coaching decision that will have ramifications for half a decade. If this season goes as I fear and know it will - I will be sick to my stomach if Graves gets to stay on and a pick our new coach - although if he consults with Tyke Tolbert, the I might just breathe a little easier.
So thank you Rod Graves -we you have done trully the unimagineable - you have took the Cardinals from being a bad team - to literally the laughingstock of the league - wait - I can't even say laughing stock when so many people have ill-will for what we've done to Emmitt (mind you - I think he dserves whatever is coming to him for being greedy and taking the bushels of cash instead of trying to play for a winner) - and the rest just pity us.
I'm going to take a few days off the board as I likely feel that I won't be the most popular person here - but what I'm talking about is important - no way in hell should someone who has screwed up so badly for this team and brought upon it the scorn and ridicule from the rest of the league and media that if faces right now should dictate how our Sundays are going to be for the next 5 years.
EDIT: Sorry about spelling and the grammar mistakes - that was just an impassioned rant written in the wee hours, coming off editing for nine hours straight and taking some relief out on my keyboard.
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, so I am forced to agree.
