The first interception.

[O]

When Warner tried to force the ball to Fitz in double coverage. Hightower was wide, and I do mean wide, open on the side lines. Not the oppisite side lines mind you. The same side line where he made the tackle. If he hadn't been there it would have been a pick six!
There was no way he was not in the realm of Warners vision.
It would have been a 1st down and more instead of an interception.

 

[lauraw]

Good description, O!!

 

[Catfish]

Good call O. I saw that too. I have a hard time understanding why KW was locking on to one receiver and staring him down. I would like to hope that this was just a bad game-----but I am afraid that there will be more to come based on his pre-season efforts.

 

[moklerman]

Not that it justifies forcing the ball into coverage or not seeing the defender but Hightower was about 10 yards short of the 1st down on that 3rd and 18 with 2 defenders between him and the first down.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Not that it justifies forcing the ball into coverage or not seeing the defender but Hightower was about 10 yards short of the 1st down on that 3rd and 18 with 2 defenders between him and the first down.

We punt there and we win the game.

 

[Mike Olbinski]

It's hard to get mad at him for not seeing Hightower on that play when he threw to him 10+ times throughout the game

But good point.

 

[moklerman]

We punt there and we win the game.

Actually, take away the 3 points they scored on that drive and they still win 17-16.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Actually, take away the 3 points they scored on that drive and they still win 17-16.

The Cardinals had the opportunity to kick the FG at the end but elected to go for it because of the 6 points that Warner put them behind.

Warner will always be a turnover fest. He is to the Cardinals as Nash is to the Suns.

When they are on they are so good you can overcome their liabilities. When they are subpar it magnifies those liabilities because they become crippling.

 

[moklerman]

The Cardinals had the opportunity to kick the FG at the end but elected to go for it because of the 6 points that Warner put them behind.

The two interceptions led to 3 SF points. The Cardinals weren't in FG range on either so there was no swing in points.

At the end of the game they would have been close enough to try a 48 yard field goal but that's hardly a sure thing, not to mention everything else in the 2nd half would have had to have played out the same exact way.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Not that it justifies forcing the ball into coverage or not seeing the defender but Hightower was about 10 yards short of the 1st down on that 3rd and 18 with 2 defenders between him and the first down.

What stopped Warner from completing that past 10 other times in the game?

 

[moklerman]

What stopped Warner from completing that past 10 other times in the game?

Nothing, I'm just guessing as to why he might have chose the way he did. Hightower was wide open but he went for the first down rather than the completion I guess.

I'm not saying it was the right choice but saying Hightower was wide open on the play without adding that it was 3rd and 18 and Hightower's relative position on the field would probably have left him well short of the first down skews the statement a little bit.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Nothing, I'm just guessing as to why he might have chose the way he did. Hightower was wide open but he went for the first down rather than the completion I guess.

I'm not saying it was the right choice but saying Hightower was wide open on the play without adding that it was 3rd and 18 and Hightower's relative position on the field would probably have left him well short of the first down skews the statement a little bit.

With the way that Graham punted, that's the play he should have made. I question that fact that we went away from Boldin this game. He should have had a field day. Boldin single covered should be a mismatch. He didn't looked injured to me.

SF completely exposed us. They doubled Larry on every single play. Every one. The only way that Larry could get open is running in/crossing routes across the field.

 

[Russ Smith]

The two interceptions led to 3 SF points. The Cardinals weren't in FG range on either so there was no swing in points.

At the end of the game they would have been close enough to try a 48 yard field goal but that's hardly a sure thing, not to mention everything else in the 2nd half would have had to have played out the same exact way.

Yeah but INT's swing both ways, points they get, points you don't get. The average possession in the NFL is worth 3.5 points so 2 INT's typically costs you about 7 points. Even as bad as the offense was yesterday we have to assume we might have scored at least 3 on one of those 2 possessions if not for the INT.

I don't mind INT's that are great plays by the D, but INT's that are forced to not open WR's are horrible.

 

[conraddobler]

We're all 2nd guessing everything cause we lost.

We win no one talks much about anything that went wrong, we came into a game with a bitter division rival and got schooled, we were banged up, we had incredible coaching turn over and we still nearly won the game.

Most of the time when someone takes one player out of the game and say maybe two WR's out of a game that's when the third one goes off and destroys them, we had no one to do that and our QB was a tad shaky.

It's really just about injuries IMO but long term we simply need to develop BW and the run game to put one more lever on teams that try and shut down this or that, one more lever and things firing on all cylanders and we'll knock some people silly.

After calming down from this you can see that this team really just needs to suck it up and move on, we need people healthy.

What's up with Breaston anyhow?

Is it serious?

 

[Pariah]

Yeah but INT's swing both ways, points they get, points you don't get.

Exactly. The cost of INTs aren't measured only in what the other teams walks away with at the conclusion of their own resulting offensive drives.