The Goat wrote:Jesus some of you guys are jokes when it comes to the Cardinals. Same old Cardinals, get outta here with that shit. Same old Cardinals is a 4-12 team passing on Brian Urlacher for Tommy Knight. Will gladly take a beating in the NFC title game over watching some of those old teams.
The Cards currently have one of the best run front offices in the league and one loss to a really good football team isn't going to change that fact. They might have played like shit, but there are much worse things then losing in a big game. Just go watch the Suns and DBacks toil away in irrelevancy for a few years and get back to me on this being the same old Cardinals.
Yeah... This team, as mostly presently constructed, has had no fewer than 10 wins each of the last three seasons. They've made the playoffs back to back years. They set records on offense for their history. They've beaten some very good teams, including Seattle twice in Seattle. They continually find steals of the draft in the 3-5th rounds. They continually find value veterans to add depth.
They aren't the same OL Cardinals, no matter how ugly it got.
That's why I'm depressed. These teams have changed expectations.
I expected better.
Old Cardinals I expected a loss every game. I could shrug off a beat down.
This hit me like a surprise cannon ball to the gut.
As for Palmer, people say the finger. I think that factors in. But I think slowly he started making poor decisions, especially in the red zone. That's something that can be fixed.
They need OL/DL/LB depth. They need to find some downhill pass rushers.