Leinart dinking and dunking the ball was far more effective than Edge running the ball. They should have realized that Edge couldn't run the ball against the Bears D yet they still ran the ball 36 times with Edge. Why? Leinart threw 42 passes, averaged 5.5 yards per attempt (almost 10 yards per completion) and threw no picks on the day. Throwing the ball was obviously the better option for the Cards. EDIT: At the end of the game after getting 2nd and 3 after a 7 yd completetion to the Bears 24 (thank you ESPN play-by-play) the Cardinals ran the ball twice with edge seemingly just to set up the field goal yet they still had 2 timeouts left. Why not try to pick up the first down with a quick pass? The Cards lost this game.
Barkley said the Cardinals were going to "shock the world" last night. EDIT: As for the first part of your post, I completely agree. The Cardinals didn't play like they wanted to win the game and seemed to be playing not to lose after they got the 23-3 lead. That's what led me to ask the question "anybody see a 24-23 finish" after the Bears cut the lead to 23-10. The Cardinals didn't look good in the second half. The completely changed their game plan and that is the reason they're 1-5 this year.
Too early? I am suprised that we don't have a Cubs/Reds Opening Day game thread up yet. With Fred's comment, I was going to suggest starting a Cubs 2007 opening day thread.
I would just like to point out that, with this statement, you have just left yourself wide open for an inordinate amount of good-natured fun-poking. And with that statement, you've set yourself up for a lot of jokes. :lmao:
I don't think A-rod is worth Ramirez and a quality pitcher. He is good but A-ram had similar numbers and he is younger. Giving up an arm as well makes it even less attractive. Subtracting a big bat and a pitcher for another big bat is not a real big upgrade. I agree. I would have to think long and hard about ARam for ARod especially if you added a pitcher into the deal.
I've never seen a team play this horrible the whole game with 6 turnovers and be up one point with 2 minutes to go. I was on the phone with my dad (a Bears fan) during that punt return and he went absolutely crazy.