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**Cards/Phins Post Game**

It is the Land of Gold, Timbuktu.

Actually, it is the land of salt.

That was why it was so critical to trade on Africa's west coast. There are huge salt flats near it, and salt was valuable as gold, and sometimes more valuable because it was a food, a chemical used to keep meat fresh, and it was used as a currency all across Africa in the days prior to 1800.

I never thought that "mandatory elective" course I had to take in college was ever going to be useful. - LOL
 
Stephen Ross wasn’t at the game yesterday according to Joe Rose. He also didn’t go to the Seahawks and Colts games.
 
Is it the D can't cover or Weaver had the wrong scheme?
Zona had recievers running free all day. Our pass coverage was awful but nothing can top the total failure at rushing the passer. He easily sidestepped our best players and found wide open receivers with ease. We were supposed to have Phillips, Chubb and Chop. Best laid plans. Phillips is reinjured, Chubb sits around collecting millions and Chop is trying his best but he mostly gets blocked out when I watch him, the effort is there. So no effective pass rush and no tight coverage of the receivers, what is this scheme called? What ever it is it isn't working because we're getting picked apart. When the game was on the line the offense had a chance to add to their very shaky lead but they couldn't do **** when we totally had to, no choice, you must suceed here but after 1 first down we had to punt! They should issue dresses to the whole offense for that failure!! With matching heels!! So Tua and his offense failed and we pinned them on their 10 yard line. They easily drove down the field and kicked the winning field goal absolutely proving beyond the shadow of doubt that this team just can get it done when it has to. They are a bunch of soft losers, that's why we lost to Indy and why we lost to the Cards.
 
Zona had recievers running free all day. Our pass coverage was awful but nothing can top the total failure at rushing the passer. He easily sidestepped our best players and found wide open receivers with ease. We were supposed to have Phillips, Chubb and Chop. Best laid plans. Phillips is reinjured, Chubb sits around collecting millions and Chop is trying his best but he mostly gets blocked out when I watch him, the effort is there. So no effective pass rush and no tight coverage of the receivers, what is this scheme called? What ever it is it isn't working because we're getting picked apart. When the game was on the line the offense had a chance to add to their very shaky lead but they couldn't do **** when we totally had to, no choice, you must suceed here but after 1 first down we had to punt! They should issue dresses to the whole offense for that failure!! With matching heels!! So Tua and his offense failed and we pinned them on their 10 yard line. They easily drove down the field and kicked the winning field goal absolutely proving beyond the shadow of doubt that this team just can get it done when it has to. They are a bunch of soft losers, that's why we lost to Indy and why we lost to the Cards.

Someone else has commented, Harrison WAS their O all day. Double Harrison, put Ramsey, Fuller, or somebody on McBride and force the other receivers to win the game. ANYTHING, but see the problem, but do nothing.
The O was doing well until ARI finally adjusted. Mcd's response was classic - change nothing.
None of the above means I absolve the O or D or individual players. But there were simple adjustments that were ignored.
 
Do you not understand football? You play entirely differently when you've got nothing to lose, have 4 downs to work with, and don't have to take clock into consideration.

It's really not complicated.
No, what's football? What's not complicated is the offense needed to answer the Cardinal's score with another score of our own to win the game and failed to do so. Needed at least a FG and got nadda, game was over right there. Not an unusual occurrence for this offense either, they routinely fail in this situation and then everyone wants to run around blaming the defense for predictably giving up the winning score. Plenty of failure all around with this team from top to bottom, all phases of the game, every position group.
 
Do you not understand football? You play entirely differently when you've got nothing to lose, have 4 downs to work with, and don't have to take clock into consideration.

It's really not complicated.

Really? That's your take? Tua is a small QB that can't fo what all other small QBs do to make up for their size disadvantage. They're elusive and can scramble and extend plays. ( see Doug Flutie, Russel Wilson, even Kyler Murray, although I think he's very flawed, the list goes on and on) We are the moronic franchise that drafted an already damaged and hamstrung athlete to play the most physical position on the field, who is also injury prone and fragile!!! WTF, man. Go read the report on Tua's injury in college. Are you drafting this kid? Broken nose, Concussion, dislocated hip, all on one innocuous play!

I feel bad for Tua, he has the heart of a champion, but he's made of glass. Time for us to move on from a catastrophe waiting to happen. Let another team take him and also take on that responsibility, oh yeah there's no other team dumb enough to do something that stupid but us. We are ****ing cursed!
 
He really does have bad hands. He’s been dropping shotgun snaps and fumbling center exchanges since he got here. We kept blaming the centers (this one snaps too hard, that one is a converted guard, etc). I was at the game today w seats in the lower section. I watched how he processes the field and it is impressive so I’m not trying to rag on him. But the fact is, he mishandles more snaps than a QB should. Today, as good as he played, that safety changed the entire game.

Dropped critical passes changed the game.

Missed tackles changed the game.

Bad play calling changed the game.

Lots of things changed the game.
 
This defense was ALWAYS bad. Terrible tackling all season long. Make no mistake. The reason they looked like they were good is because of game management by the other teams. There was no reason to go for big plays when our team couldn’t score more than 10 points a game. Our team is on a loop. A four year nightmare that never ends. By year two we have hope with every new regime. Year three we are almost there and then year four we are destroyed and put into the ground again.

Current Defense not much different and just as bad as defense under old guy.
 
4 years into a rebuild and we've managed to get worse...last time Tua played Murray:View attachment 177807
I wonder why they got worse... could it be McDumbsh*t? :chuckle:

Back then, Flores ignored the offense, but in his first year he had Chan Gailey running the offense, and then two co-OCs after that. IOW, people who actually had somewhat of a clue were calling the plays, the problem was that Grier was the one who built the team. But now, most of the o-linemen on the roster are even worse than before, and the inexperienced McDumbsh*t is calling the plays on offense.

IMO, playing the "what if" game, if one has to go and one has to stay, then I believe that the team would've been better off if Flores had remained as HC and Grier was replaced with someone competent. A smart GM could have made sure that Flores got a strong o-line and someone good to run the offense. Under Flores, the team was tougher and more disciplined. Under McDaniel's Club Med philosophy, the team is a bunch of undisciplined, injured pansies.
 
Dropped critical passes changed the game.

Missed tackles changed the game.

Bad play calling changed the game.

Lots of things changed the game.
Yes but a safety is one of the most game altering plays you can have. I think teams that score a safety win like 64% of the time or something - going back to the beginning of time. It steals a possession and the points. You saw it play out - 8 point swing
 
The style of this loss proves what I have suspected: teams were playing very conservative on offense because our offense was so bad without Tua. It made our defense look ok, but it was an illusion.
Yep. Not to mention 2nd half with a lead those offenses will be even more conservative
 
Yes but a safety is one of the most game altering plays you can have. I think teams that score a safety win like 64% of the time or something - going back to the beginning of time. It steals a possession and the points. You saw it play out - 8 point swing

Yes. And I saw three dropped passes that could have been TDs.
 
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