Cardinals, biiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch! 10-2, baby! Finally hit those double digit wins and that makes three season in a row of winning at least 10, what a difference the Keim/Arians regime has made! This train isn't stopping now though! We need to keep winning and lock up the bye. The bad news is that we have a tough remaining schedule but the good news is that it's against playoff teams so good practice.
As for the Rams, we finally got our revenge and I know the team was waiting for that game since week 4. Now if we could just get revenge against the Steelers in the Superbowl it'd be perfect. Anyway, our defense was fantastic, damn near shut them out (granted their O is trash) but the one good play we allowed Gurley setup their lone FG. Gurley's ass was otherwise shut down at forty something yards and we kept Peterson on Tavon Austin most of the game this time around so basically we learned our lesson and the D destroyed them. More importantly, there wasn't any flukey shit like fumbling the opening kickoff or David Johnson dropping a wide open pass in the end zone so as expected, we blew them out.
Speaking of David Johnson, proud of the kid and while it's awful having two of our top backs out, especially for remaining depth reasons, it's great giving this kid a chance to prove himself and shine. I predicted at the beginning of the season that he'd beat out Ellington by the end of the year and not just due to injuries but I didn't foresee the Chris Johnson resurrection. This is David's chance to show he should be the lead back next year if we don't keep Chris and he returns to form but I'd be worried it was just a contract year performance from him anyway. David is a North/South runner and that made a huge difference, our OL is capable of punching brief holes and if you just dash up the middle you'll make it in time. That's what David and Kerwynn did and what Chris didn't exploit. As great a season as CJ had, he dances around too much and tries too hard to make a huge play. He doesn't take advantage of the holes created for him so I'd honestly just prefer to see David build off this performance and become our top back by the end of the season. He's got great size and did fantastic blocking the blitz Sunday against a great DL. The kid is an every down back and we haven't had that in some time. It's great because we won't telescript what we're going to do with him in.
Shoutout to Larry for being the youngest player in NFL history to hit 1K receptions and also for getting his first 1K yard season since 2011. Poor guy, he's endured much since Warner left but now he's being rewarded for his loyalty (not that he wasn't with money already). Floyd is looking great and so many rookies are still producing. Let's not forget that Peterson is having a career season, ELITE CB, suck it FMT and Cdy! ;p
Now after a physical game with the Lambs we have a short week before facing one of the other best records in the league, a team trying to catch up. Lets put the Vikings out of their misery and ensure they don't get that 2 seed! Thursday we improve to 11-2 when we crush the Vikings in our house! Go Cardinals!
MIN @ ARI
BUF @ PHI
SEA @ BAL
SF @ CLE
ATL @ CAR
WAS @ CHI
PIT @ CIN
DET @ STL
IND @ JAX
SD @ KC
NO @ TB
TEN @ NYJ
OAK @ DEN
DAL @ GB
NE @ HOU
NYG @ MIA
