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I was the guy arguing that our Punter Tom Tupa was a great QB option after the Cards landing- actually weve seen worse since! I liked Mccown and still do- as well as Leinart- I don't and never have thought it is a QB problem or an oline problem- and then the crap hit the fanatic- I turned on what I thought the solution was- Woe is Ken Whisenhunt.
You see I thought continuity and consistency of FO, GM, coach, scheme and philosophy are the keys to NFL Franchise long term success, Player Free agency threw a curve but still continuity and consistency of a Franchise. True Card fans and Bidwills are here forever- We have the stadium full and have reduced the number of opponent fans and increased the Cards fans on most weeks.
I want to believe in BA and Keim. I seen Keim follow the mainstream instead of tripping out in left field. I seen players graded increments higher replace players ranked increments lower for the first time. yea kick me in my grading scale - I don't care anymore- ESPN has basically the same structure now and I adhust it by my priorities of skill set per position- so shoot me.
BA is a fundamentally poor football coach- He stated he has never seen it take this long for an offense to develop? Well when you are SCARED to practice blocking and tackling in the offseason - because of injury- your tem is not prepared to face a team that AINT SCARED to practice blocking and tackling in the offseason. Injuries are going to happen in this bigger faster NFL. But if you don't commit to the fundamentals you increase the risk of injury!
We practiced 3rd and long extensively and have like 2- 3rd down conversions this year? the scores has not been so outrageous that we are always playing catch up- the excuse Whiz used that wasn't true. Our defense is spent by the 4th 1/4 because our offense had -what- 1 long drive last week? many 2 minutes or less? same broken record playing different coach, RB, QB'sss, oline!
I know I'm a broken record to- but we are like a manure spreader going across the field kicking the crap out of ourselves- we are not good enough to outperform NFL defenses passing over 2/3rds of the time- few are- it is disrespectful to NFL defenses and they enjoy playing our offense- wearing down our defense- and so many kicks to return.
If we concentrated on fundamentals for 1 year with patients- we would compete - We aint got a chance in the current NFCW while soaring with turkeys- we are cooking our own goose-
Well Smel I watched fans disappear from Sun Devil by the dozens in the '90's. People who had season tickets near me would just be gone the next year replaced by empty seats. Especially the successful guys that had loge tickets. They just couldn't stomach the perpetual ineptitude which is really hard for macho guys with big Egos. Of course not being able to bang on the brown aluminum during the games anymore didn't help. Pissed a lot of people off and they never came back.
