I was here last year before the season opener when we played you guys but somehow I cant remember what my screen name and other stuff were. I thought it was the same exact stuff I just put down to register again but I guess not.
Anyways, I had to respond on here about Taylor because alot of you have been way off about him. Your looking too much at the sack stats. He's been great for us and everyone including fans and the media are sad to see him miss this upcoming game. After the Giants game in which he clearly shouldnt have been playing, he has been very good. Against NO he had that sack, he tipped a pass, and out D was putting on some good pressure all game. Everyone was happy with how he played in that game. Then against the Cards he didnt get any sacks but he again had "3" tipped passes, and hit Warner another 2 or 3 times as soon as he released the ball. There was one drive where the Cards had 1st & goal at the 10 and the drive ended with Taylor batting down 2 straight passes from Warner. Infact in the last 2 games he's also had two 3rd down plays where Warner & Brees where trying to throw flare passes to Bush & Edge but ended up throwing it over there heads & out of bounds because Taylor had his hands up and they tried to throw over the top of him. Sirigousa was talking about how he's seeing what Warner is seeing and that he cant see over top of Taylor and is just hoping his teammate is there.
On top of that we are 2-1 with our only loss coming to the defending champs by 9 points on the road and it shouldve been 6pts if we wouldve kicked the late FG in a game that we clearly werent ready to play on either side of the ball. On O we were just totally struggling at that time in Zorn's system and on D we had almost the whole squad just coming back from major injuries and werent ready for game speed. Still with all of that our D totally shut them down after the 1st quarter, held them to 98 total yards and 0 points in the 2nd half. We also totally shut down the Saints powerful Offense. The Saints scored 24pts on us, 7 came off of a Bush PR, and another 7 came from a Randel El fumble inside our red zone. We picked off Brees twice, held him to 216 yards, and completely shut down there vaunted Offense. The Cards have had the best O in the NFL over the past 10 games. In that stretch theyve averaged 30ppg, had scored atelast 20 in every single game, and Warner has been the #1 QB in the NFL over that stretch with those 2 stud wr's. You guys saw how explosive they were the week before. We held them to 17pts, Warner thew for only 50%, he threw for less then 200 yards, we picked him off once, Boldin was shut down with only 32 yards, and Fitz had his 100 but 68 of those came off 1 bomb play that was on our only weak link who is SS Reed Doughty who is replacing Sean Taylor. No one even wanted him playing because we have 2 great rookie Safties, 1 of which started the previous week for a sick Doughty and won the NFC DPOW award for having 2 picks, 1 fumble recovery, and 1 crtical 3rd & 1 stop in his 1st start of his career. Doughty is only playing because he is a nice guy and our Defensive Coach has his certain special guys who he plays even though other guys are clearly better. Still, after that 1 play we immediatly sat him down for the rest of the game and brought in the rookie. That was the 1st time in forever that I remember us givng up a big play when were healthy. Were the best in the league at taking away the big play and I cant even remember the last time someone had one on us when were healthy. Our D is soooo underrated and shuts everyone down when were healthy. The only team to light us up was NE and that was just because they totally outschemed us. They didnt catch anything on our Secondary but instead threw all 5 yard passes, flares, and screens while our D sat back and gave those guys a running start.
All Im saying is that Taylor has been much better then you guys think he has. However, Im not that upset that he's missing the game because you can still tell that he's knicked up, his knee is still bothering him, and we have other good DE's. I rather him take a week off and give it some rest. BTW, nice impressive win over the Pats. I think you guys can make the playoffs this year. Everyone always leaves us out in our division but were on pace to make the playoffs for the 3rd time in 4 years and have been playing equal with everyone in our divsion since Gibbs came here. I think if we had played NY now then we would beat them but we just werent ready to play at that time. We play on the road at Dallas & Philly in our next 2 games. I think we will definatly beat Philly. We dont need either win since there both on the road but if we get 1 then I think were atuomatically in the playoffs because all 3 have to come to us in the 2nd half of the year and we will only get better as the season goes on, we get more healthy, more comfortable in Zorn's system, our Rookies will also be big factors by then. Good luck guys
Anyways, I had to respond on here about Taylor because alot of you have been way off about him. Your looking too much at the sack stats. He's been great for us and everyone including fans and the media are sad to see him miss this upcoming game. After the Giants game in which he clearly shouldnt have been playing, he has been very good. Against NO he had that sack, he tipped a pass, and out D was putting on some good pressure all game. Everyone was happy with how he played in that game. Then against the Cards he didnt get any sacks but he again had "3" tipped passes, and hit Warner another 2 or 3 times as soon as he released the ball. There was one drive where the Cards had 1st & goal at the 10 and the drive ended with Taylor batting down 2 straight passes from Warner. Infact in the last 2 games he's also had two 3rd down plays where Warner & Brees where trying to throw flare passes to Bush & Edge but ended up throwing it over there heads & out of bounds because Taylor had his hands up and they tried to throw over the top of him. Sirigousa was talking about how he's seeing what Warner is seeing and that he cant see over top of Taylor and is just hoping his teammate is there.
On top of that we are 2-1 with our only loss coming to the defending champs by 9 points on the road and it shouldve been 6pts if we wouldve kicked the late FG in a game that we clearly werent ready to play on either side of the ball. On O we were just totally struggling at that time in Zorn's system and on D we had almost the whole squad just coming back from major injuries and werent ready for game speed. Still with all of that our D totally shut them down after the 1st quarter, held them to 98 total yards and 0 points in the 2nd half. We also totally shut down the Saints powerful Offense. The Saints scored 24pts on us, 7 came off of a Bush PR, and another 7 came from a Randel El fumble inside our red zone. We picked off Brees twice, held him to 216 yards, and completely shut down there vaunted Offense. The Cards have had the best O in the NFL over the past 10 games. In that stretch theyve averaged 30ppg, had scored atelast 20 in every single game, and Warner has been the #1 QB in the NFL over that stretch with those 2 stud wr's. You guys saw how explosive they were the week before. We held them to 17pts, Warner thew for only 50%, he threw for less then 200 yards, we picked him off once, Boldin was shut down with only 32 yards, and Fitz had his 100 but 68 of those came off 1 bomb play that was on our only weak link who is SS Reed Doughty who is replacing Sean Taylor. No one even wanted him playing because we have 2 great rookie Safties, 1 of which started the previous week for a sick Doughty and won the NFC DPOW award for having 2 picks, 1 fumble recovery, and 1 crtical 3rd & 1 stop in his 1st start of his career. Doughty is only playing because he is a nice guy and our Defensive Coach has his certain special guys who he plays even though other guys are clearly better. Still, after that 1 play we immediatly sat him down for the rest of the game and brought in the rookie. That was the 1st time in forever that I remember us givng up a big play when were healthy. Were the best in the league at taking away the big play and I cant even remember the last time someone had one on us when were healthy. Our D is soooo underrated and shuts everyone down when were healthy. The only team to light us up was NE and that was just because they totally outschemed us. They didnt catch anything on our Secondary but instead threw all 5 yard passes, flares, and screens while our D sat back and gave those guys a running start.
All Im saying is that Taylor has been much better then you guys think he has. However, Im not that upset that he's missing the game because you can still tell that he's knicked up, his knee is still bothering him, and we have other good DE's. I rather him take a week off and give it some rest. BTW, nice impressive win over the Pats. I think you guys can make the playoffs this year. Everyone always leaves us out in our division but were on pace to make the playoffs for the 3rd time in 4 years and have been playing equal with everyone in our divsion since Gibbs came here. I think if we had played NY now then we would beat them but we just werent ready to play at that time. We play on the road at Dallas & Philly in our next 2 games. I think we will definatly beat Philly. We dont need either win since there both on the road but if we get 1 then I think were atuomatically in the playoffs because all 3 have to come to us in the 2nd half of the year and we will only get better as the season goes on, we get more healthy, more comfortable in Zorn's system, our Rookies will also be big factors by then. Good luck guys
