How? How? HOW????????????? How do you blow the game against the Bears? I'll tell you... You don't run the ball twice up by 6 to make the Bears burn their final two timeouts and put the game in the hands of your defense to hold. The same defense that has kept the Bears from an offensive TD the entire night. Good God... The most sickening game I've ever watched.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pack Attack)</div><div class='quotemain'>How? How? HOW????????????? How do you blow the game against the Bears? I'll tell you... You don't run the ball twice up by 6 to make the Bears burn their final two timeouts and put the game in the hands of your defense to hold. The same defense that has kept the Bears from an offensive TD the entire night. Good God... The most sickening game I've ever watched.</div> Bears took lead with over 3 minutes. I would abandon the run if i was getting 1.8 a carry
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pack Attack)</div><div class='quotemain'>Good God... The most sickening game I've ever watched.</div> You have that feeling to? I thought it was something I ate. What a sickening display of coaching. The one thing I can take away from this, Leinert looked great, and Grossman looked like I expected him to look.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>You have that feeling to? I thought it was something I ate. What a sickening display of coaching.</div> Not to dredge up horrible memories, VF, but this Dennis Green gem is reminiscent of the Vikings' 15 - 1 season that was squandered in the Championship game against the Falcons. Again...horrible, horrible coaching.
Awful coaching. I was a Denny Green fan in Minnesota as well. I thought he'd turn Arizona around but the fact is his coaching really lost this game. 36 carries by James? Leinart looked good all day. Let him loose a little bit especially since you can't run the ball.
This game was reminescent of last years Bears. Defence stepped up and our Special teams came through. I am hoping that Rex will be alright after this but will agree he looked Gross man. His play was the only thing that made me a little sickly, but a unbelievable comeback win. Six turnovers and we won, that is just crazy.
Well, at least we know the Bears aren't invincible. They were only a couple feet from defeat. That kicker bette be put on suicide watch.
I felt for coach Green on that strip of James which led to a TD. IMO the refs should have ruled forward progress had been stopped. Instead they swallowed their whistles & let the Bears get away with a huge momentum changing turnover.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (vikingfan)</div><div class='quotemain'>The one thing I can take away from this, Leinert looked great, and Grossman looked like I expected him to look.</div> I agree Leinart has been very impressive in his 1st two starts. AZ should remain positive for the future.
Clearly D. Green's fault....I cant believe he called for the 2 fumble returns in that situation....I can hear the call in the huddle, "I Right, Double Slot, XZ Fumble Run, D-Score on 2, ready....break"....and then, after calling for both those defensive scores, he calls for that punt return TD as well....he should be fired....if he just doesnt call those plays, they Cards easily win....
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Clearly D. Green's fault....I cant believe he called for the 2 fumble returns in that situation....I can hear the call in the huddle, "I Right, Double Slot, XZ Fumble Run, D-Score on 2, ready....break"....and then, after calling for both those defensive scores, he calls for that punt return TD as well....he should be fired....if he just doesnt call those plays, they Cards easily win...</div> Like I said...if he runs the ball and forces the Bears to take their final timeouts and then punts the ball out of bounds, the Cards defense could have put the game away. Yeah, Green can't control turnovers, but he has to manage the game properly for his team to win. The funny thing is, while this was happening Joe Theismann said "I like this move by the Cardinals. They're not content to just run the ball twice and make the Bears use their timeouts. They're trying to win the game outright." I laughed out loud at that statement because, as I've demonstrated, it turned out to be the exact wrong thing to do. Just like everything Theismann suggests.
Dang leinart looked great. god damn neil rackers. Matt carried this team the whole game then was let down by a kicker in the last seconds. well besides the bears defence too.
I agree that Dennis Green has shown some dreadful coaching which is too bad because Leinart has looked good so far when he's had the opportunity to play. I can't believe that the Bears came back to win that game, it should have been the Cardinals game to win, and what a huge upset it would have been. Speaking of the Cardinals, what the hell is with Neil Rackers, the guy was automatic last season, he only missed 2 FG's all season last year, and this year he's already missed 5 in 6 games.
Ironic thing is that if the Bears defense doesn't make the plays that they do then no one questions Green's coaching at all. I think questioning his coaching is bogus. He's a good coach. Pack Attack your argument is backwards. He ran the ball 36 times for 56 yards and yet he didn't try to run the ball enough? The game had unfolded to where the Cards had a better chance of using a short passing game to run out the clock than the running game did. If he uses the passing game and gets a 1st down then the game is over. He had a better chance of getting it through the air than he did the ground. That's what he was thinking and I don't think he was wrong. Forget what the normal rules apply there. The Bears are not a normal defense. Stop blaming Green and start giving pure credit to the Bears defense.
The Edge, needs to learn how to keep 2 hands on the ball. Its a run up the middle and he runs into a pile, yet he has the ball tucked under one arm? He should have been holding on to the ball with both hands making sure there's no way he's going to lose it. Also Rackers has no excuse for missing that field goal, with his reputation a 40 yarder should have been automatic. I actually think the Cardinals should have thrown more on 1st and 2nd down, they must have ran 90% of the time.
