Cardinals, biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch!!!
After obliterating the Niners, the NFC West overlords continue their reign for another week now 2 games ahead of everyone in the division. The Cards will move on to feasting on the Lambs. I always hate playing the Rams because of their propensity for knocking players out of games. They've taken out 3 different Cardinals QBs the last handful of seasons plus Honey Badger on the punt return and now they knocked out Big Ben... I"m supremely confident football-wise, but will be praying to the football gods that we get through this game without any serious injuries, especially to Palmer. We swept them last year, lets do it again! Go Cardinals!
I know you guys were expecting a more hyperbolic rant concerning our dismantling of the Niners and as fun as typing those posts are, the Niners are too pathetic to bother. If they were still good, I'd tell FMT to swallow deep but he knows his team sucks. I knew we'd win by multiple scores but didn't expect this level of blow out... Cheers to the Cardinals 12th man, little Kappy! We appreciate the touchdowns you threw on the Cardinals' behalf.
Now for more paragraphs so Spinluck isn't disappointed
The Palmer to Fitz connection continues to be deadly and John Brown and Floyd will ensure teams can't simply take Fitz out of the game to win. Chris Johnson is looking far from washed up and much better than I anticipated. This truly is the best RB depth we've ever had and now we'll get Ellington back against the Rams. We also are getting Iupati back, finally against the Rams so our rush attack will only improve! This offense is far from reaching it's full potential and if you watch the interviews, Fitz and Arians feel the same way. Our offense can be special and with the most points and TDs in the league (at least going into last night's game, not sure if Packers changed that), we're well on our way!
Defense, someone asked if our D was still any good. You tell me
Obviously the numbers are inflated due to Kaepernick being trash but still, our secondary read the Niners' schemes like they had the script, picking him apart. The Niners didn't cross the 50 a single time, offensively, that's fucking impressive. It would have easily been a complete shut-out if not for that stupid miffed punt. I still can't believe Butler beat out Zastudil and I hope we find someone better next season but Arians seems to be married to the guy this year... We had tons of pressure up front which was nice to see for a change but I know that's largely due to the Niners poor OL. I'm still excited about it because the other two division rivals OL is terrible too so I'm licking my chops thinking about the tissue paper Seattle has there. Honey Badger is looking like he'll have a monster season. Bethel, on his first defensive snap (he's been a ST ace), gets a pick six at the start of the game, happy for him. Peterson quietly shut down Torrey Smith, preventing even a single catch from occurring so he did his job. We'll have to wait until week 5 against Megatron to get a better sample.
On one hand I appreciate that Arians goes for the jugular and on the other, we definitely should have taken Palmer out once the game was put away. It's not worth risking the whole damn season. Kaep should have been out too for that matter but I'm guessing they hoped he'd work out of his funk to get a little confidence back before the game ended. Also, fuck the Niners (I think it was Bowman) for that pile-up where he was clearly trying to dig into Palmer and injure him after the play was dead. Already had Mcphee go after Palmer's knees in Chicago, these trash teams need some class. It's alright, I understand, the fear is palpable.
Now go ahead and try to write our blow out off for being against a bad team. I'll just laugh and enjoy the 3-0 start. I don't care how bad the other team is, a mediocre or worse team does not win by 40 pts against ANYONE. We aren't just beating bad teams, we're blowing them the fuck out as a legit team. We are the most balanced team in the league and any team would be wise to be wary of us. That's what we have over the Packers and Patriots, a more complete team but they have the superior QB and we know how huge a factor that is in the NFL. I really enjoyed watching Rodgers last night, just a master of his craft and I respect the hell out of the Packers. That said, despite Rodgers being far superior, Palmer is still hanging with those guys in scoring so if we keep this up, we'll compete against anyone as I've been saying. With Big Ben all but guaranteed to be out, the Steelers game isn't the challenge it once was which means we should have smooth sailing all the way to week 10 where we play in Seattle. It will be interesting to see how both teams look coming into that game. Go Cardinals! Let's get that 4-0!
BAL @
PIT
NYJ @ MIA
NYG @
BUF
CAR @ TB
OAK @ CHI
KC @
CIN
HOU @
ATL
JAC @
IND
PHI @ WAS
CLE @
SD
MIN @
DEN
GB @ SF
STL @
ARI
DAL @ NO
DET @
SEA
