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[nurnay]

UGH.... not watching May 10th....


Seriously, thinking about that game still makes me sick....

I was so hung over the next day because of the collapse. I'd prefer to just forget that game.

 

[abomb]

ARI 20, CHI 3...7:22 remaining in the third. I think we might win this time.

 

[Red Dawn]

This game makes me sick, I watched a minute of it and I cant take any more.
My wife just told me she will never watch that game again lmao

 

[abomb]

This game makes me sick, I watched a minute of it and I cant take any more.
My wife just told me she will never watch that game again lmao

5:40 in the third and we are still leading 20-3. This is great.

 

[abomb]

yeah, I shouldnt have watched this.

 

[titan]

the az and chi game replay

well i just watched the replay of the game, which i was at. i have been a season ticket holder for 13 years and in all that time i was never on tv. my brother flew out from south dakota for the game. i have seats on the 25 yard line first row. someone told him they thought they saw him on tv. well i watched the game and sure enough there he was with his arms in the air after a touch down. 13 years and he goes to one game! they didn't even show me next to him. i thought that was funny. he's going to have someone put it into a picture so he can hang it on the wall. well there's always this year....

 

[vinnymac]

I started to watch that game again last night. I quit watching it as soon as Kornhole and Theisman started talking. Those two commentating added insult to injury for that game.

 

[Red Dawn]

5:40 in the third and we are still leading 20-3. This is great.

I recall we were all high-fiving each other, relishing our great victory on national TV, vindicating years of heartbreak.

 

[JeffGollin]

I'll watch the first three quarters then turn it off

I wasn't going to watch it either, but nothing else was on TV last night so I did precisely that - I watched the first three quarters and then switched to a TIVO'd recording of The Unit.

One thing that leaped (lept?) out at me (buried within the shambles of the Hester returns and the fumble recovery for a TD) were the missed opportunities during the course of those three quarters. Two sure interceptions dropped. Rackers' missed FG attempts etc.

Then again, those miscues were offset by inspired play by the Cardinals during those initial 43:00.

The lesson learned should be that "everything counts." Even a seemingly insignificant blunder can undermine all the hard work and stupendous effort a team makes.

The little things, in fact, do count.

 

[Gambit]

I started to watch that game again last night. I quit watching it as soon as Kornhole and Theisman started talking. Those two commentating added insult to injury for that game.

That's one of the things that made it so painful. They hyped up the Bears for an hour and a half before the game started, saying that he were an Unstoppable Winning Machine. We then proceed to trounce them, only to have it all fall apart at the end. Fate is a Cruel Mistress.

 

[Capital Card]

I turned it off in the 3rd quarter as well. No point in reliving that nightmare again.

This year will be different.

Go Cards!!!

 

[abomb]

I recall we were all high-fiving each other, relishing our great victory on national TV, vindicating years of heartbreak.

Donald reminded me that I was singing/yelling "Nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye" at the top of my lungs."

The ghosts of Pottsville will never let me live that one down.

 

[Gambit]

So were the Bears who we thought they were the second time around? Did we let them off the hook, again?

 

[BigRedRage]

Running around drunk at halftime yelling donut....ahhhhhhhh that was a fun game

(I was trashed by the 4th quarter and either that or have just chosen to forget the 4th cuz I dont remember much except edge being stripped after stopping progress.)

 

[seesred]

I turned it on for a few minutes, but knowing what was coming, I just couldn't go through that pain again. I just remember sitting there for about 15 minutes after the final gun and thinking to my Cardinal rooting self, I had never ever felt that bad about a game. Please no nightmares this year.

GBR
40

 

[phillycard]

One positive, I took out of watching it (yes I did break down and put it on.) was witnessing just how good this team can be. I honestly can't recall the last time I saw us come out and smack a team around as much as we did the Bears that night. Emotionally I was in uncharted territory those first 3 quarters, which I think made the ending so damn painful. I hope every body on this team who played in that game remembers it and never forgets that feeling after Rack missed the kick. Some good can come out of it then I think.

 

[abomb]

One positive, I took out of watching it (yes I did break down and put it on.) was witnessing just how good this team can be. I honestly can't recall the last time I saw us come out and smack a team around as much as we did the Bears that night. Emotionally I was in uncharted territory those first 3 quarters, which I think made the ending so damn painful. I hope every body on this team who played in that game remembers it and never forgets that feeling after Rack missed the kick. Some good can come out of it then I think.

I hear you man.

Here are the crazy things about that game;

• No Fitz
• Oliver Ross not blocking/seeing the DE on the sack/fumble/TD
• Denny Green going into "not lose the game" mode with 8:00 rem in the 2nd quarter
• Edge nearly every carry
• Rowen/Denny being so boring in the playcalling that the Bears were loading 8 in the box on nearly every down
• Anquan Boldin's amazing YAC
• Rackers having the worst game of his career

 

[Mitch]

I too watched the first half...and I was pleasantly reminded of the Cardinals' tremendous intensity in this game (slowed considerably by ultra conservative play calling particularly after turnovers)...and was also pleasantly reminded of the stellar play from the following players:

1. Matt Leinart--to think this was his second start and to watch how in command of that game he was on such a prodigious stage.

2. Q and BJ. RAC clinic for both of them.

3. Aaron Francisco and Gerald Hayes. Tremendous ints and returns.

4. Bertrand Berry. Great QB strip and recovery.

5. A.J. Schable. Was in on just about every special team tackle in the first half. And made a couple very nice blocks at FB.

6. The AZ crowd...wow were they amped!

 

[abomb]

I too watched the first half...and I was pleasantly reminded of the Cardinals' tremendous intensity in this game (slowed considerably by ultra conservative play calling particularly after turnovers)...and was also pleasantly reminded of the stellar play from the following players:

1. Matt Leinart--to think this was his second start and to watch how in command of that game he was on such a prodigious stage.

2. Q and BJ. RAC clinic for both of them.

3. Aaron Francisco and Gerald Hayes. Tremendous ints and returns.

4. Bertrand Berry. Great QB strip and recovery.

5. A.J. Schable. Was in on just about every special team tackle in the first half. And made a couple very nice blocks at FB.

6. The AZ crowd...wow were they amped!

What doesnt show on the tape but will be remembered most by us EZ fans, was after a big play by AW (I forget which one), he flexed his arms to his side and was screaming as loud as he possibly cool. So jacked up!

He admitted the next day that he didnt sleep and cried all night with his wife and then dropped the f-bomb on the local radio show.

I freaking love that guy.

 

[Gambit]

What doesnt show on the tape but will be remembered most by us EZ fans, was after a big play by AW (I forget which one), he flexed his arms to his side and was screaming as loud as he possibly cool. So jacked up!

He admitted the next day that he didnt sleep and cried all night with his wife and then dropped the f-bomb on the local radio show.

I freaking love that guy.

I know this doesn't really make sense, but the Cards deserved to win that game. It's almost like they were fighting Fate along with the Bears. I truly believe that if they had won that game then the whole season would have been profoundly different. They got on track at the end, but maybe they would have been playing well earlier on and...who knows.

 

[phillycard]

I know this doesn't really make sense, but the Cards deserved to win that game. It's almost like they were fighting Fate along with the Bears. I truly believe that if they had won that game then the whole season would have been profoundly different. They got on track at the end, but maybe they would have been playing well earlier on and...who knows.

You're not wrong at all G. And btw Eric Green played out of his mind. Amazing that he was so bad in the Dallas game compared to that.

 

[20yroldcardfan]

and our special teams pro bowl alternate is the one who wiffed on hester. BLAST IT ALL! the one positive more than anything from watching it, like most have said, is the play of Leinart. it was only his second start but you wouldnt be able to tell that with the way he played. it pains me to see him after the final gun.

 

[Syracusecards]

I forgot about this, but after the game when they're interviewing Urlacher and asking how he was in on every play, he says "they never blocked me". That shows how poor the coaching scheme was for this game. I'm fine with trying to protect a lead and running the clock out, but when you don't account for the opponents best run defender, um, how exactly are you going to run the clock out??? stupid play calling.

 

[Redsz]

As I said in another thread, NFL Network broke down the Cardinals blocking scheme under Green and it just made no sense.

Basically, the entire line would shift in a direction and just leave huge holes for guys to come running through. It's no wonder Urlacher was un-blocked and going one on one with Edge all night.

 

[Duckjake]

1. Matt Leinart--to think this was his second start and to watch how in command of that game he was on such a prodigious stage.

I was impressed with the way Leinart bounced back after going 6-18 in the second half to work that last drive. (Only to have Rackers miss the FG.)

People forget that the Cards threw the ball as much as they ran it in the second half. The problem was that they ran Edge up the middle on the first play of every drive but one while they had the lead. There was only one drive where the Cards had less than 2nd and 8 after the first play. Which probably explains why Leinart threw 12 incompletions in 18 attempts.