Ask Revenge of the Birds (again)
by JoeCB1991 on Nov 9, 2010 11:09 AM PST
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PrintHey guys, me again. You know the drill, just ask some questions and I will answer them. Your guy has already come by our place, so don't worry about starting one over there.
Some of the basics.
Joey Porter has stepped up. He had one sack before the first game against you guys, and he has four in his last three games (Seahawks, Bucs, Vikings).
The defense is maddeningly inconsistent, and I think they are getting worn out from how much time they spend on the field.
LaRod Stephens-Howling should be a Pro Bowler this year.
Derek Anderson is starting to look less bad.
I still miss Kurt Warner, and I hate Brett Favre.
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"Gimpie" Wells is more like it.
His knee inflated last week from a “lubricant” injected into it. Missed practice and got the ball only once in Minnesota. The guy hasn’t been right all season.
Point of Emphasis
If we don’t stop Branch this game then we’re
GO SEAHAWKS!going to be in serious trouble. What’s the latest on Dockett"s injury from Sunday?
Remember how our offense was still going strong until Okung went down?
I heard he might be coming back this week
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul - Invictus
Does Paris Lenon's ankle injury concern you?
If he can’t go, does that mean more Schofield and Washington?
It's early in the week.
Have to see how the injury situation is closer to the game. Washington would start if Lenon is out. Don’t know how much play time to expect from Schofield regardless.
Besides
Schofield is an outside linebacker, Washington is inside.
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan [I have always lived in Arizona, dad is from Chicago].
I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team(s), throughout the good and the bad. And don't switch to whichever team wins the Super Bowl each year.
LaRod over Leon Washington for Pro Bowl?
I don’t know about that….
by jyellow865 on Nov 9, 2010 3:13 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Stephens-Howling / Washington comparison
Stephens-Howling:
Kick returns – 38 / 1060 yards / 2 TDs * / long 102 / Avg 27.9
(* Had a 3rd TD return denied by a penalty that sadly didn’t even affect the play.)
Punt returns – 0 (How we wish he was our punt returner.)
Rushing – 17 carries / 94 yards / long 30 / Avg 5.5 / 1 TDs
Receiving – 9 receptions / 74 yards / long 13 / 7.9 avg / 0 TDs
1 fumble recovery (on punt coverage team).
Washington:
Kick returns – 24 / 753 yards / long 101 / 2 TDs / Avg 31.4
Punt returns – 4 / 78 yards / 0 TDs / long 43 / Avg 19.5
Rushing – 17 carries / 59 yards / long 21 / Avg 3.5 / 0 TDs
Receiving – 3 catches / 28 yards / long 28 / Avg 9.3 / 0 TDs
1 fumble.
Obviously as a special teams player only those stats should factor into the selection to the pro bowl. The rest I included just to be more rounded. Looks like a tight race. Washington had both his returns for TD in one game. Stephens-Howling has taken it back against three teams. I like his chances of doing it again before the season is over.
I also like LSH a lot, but he only returned for a TD against 2 teams, not 3.
Nobody is going to care about the one that was called back, unfortunately. I think Leon has had some good returns called back also. It’s part of the game. This is one where we’ll need a few more games to really see who keeps up the performance.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
It does matter.
It means that it’s not a fluke or luck or just a bad opponent. The one called back against Atlanta may not go on the books but it factors into the confidence we have that he can and most likely will do it again before the season ends. LaRod has had other big returns too, one for 71 yards that I remember off the top of my head. At this point either guy could break away. We see a hell of a lot to like out of our 7th rounder. You got a steal getting Washington too. I was not happy about that happening at all.
Think it was against the Seahawks too
He also has the one from the Titans game last year.
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan [I have always lived in Arizona, dad is from Chicago].
I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team(s), throughout the good and the bad. And don't switch to whichever team wins the Super Bowl each year.
I guess I was referring more to the pro-bowl worthiness.
It absolutely makes a difference in determining which guy we “feel” is better. But yeah, gross yardage isn’t as important as return average…though with kick returning, just knowing a guy can bust off a 70 yard return on any kick is frightening.
That said, Leon is explosive and awesome, and this will certainly be an exciting special teams battle.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Voting
of any kind is always skewed by how people feel about the candidate. Sometimes disproportionately. I don’t see how pro bowl voting is any different. For every fan that is actually uses critical analysis in making their choice there scads of them voting for every guy on their favorite team over and over.
I do understand your point though. I can’t vote for someone just because I like them as a player or think they might have potential. It has to be about what they’ve done on the field. Mid season is way to early for pro bowl voting to even start in my opinion. Some guys don’t really start producing until later in the season. Others top out early. I don’t see the point in voting prior to the end of the regular season.
Gross yardage shouldn't be a factor.
It just means the other team is scoring on you more. But he does look pretty awesome.
Why can't my higher than average expectations ever be met in the football world? Why?
True story.
Last night I had a dream that Stephen-Howling was murdered by crip gang members when they mistook him for a blood, because he was wearing a red cardinals jersey. It was pretty sad.
Kind of strange since I normally would never even think about him, but I did read this post right before bed, so that must have been what planted it in my brain. Thankfully at no point in my dream did I think about how it would help the Seahawks win the game or help Washingtons chance of making the pro bowl, otherwise I’d really need to rethink my priorities in life.
by Mind of no mind on Nov 11, 2010 4:33 PM PST up reply actions
Hate Favre? It's a taste of your own medicine.
How’s it feel to get beat buy a future hall of famer on his last legs?
by hazbro24 on Nov 9, 2010 6:21 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
As a fellow Canadian, I am embarrassed by your choice of teams.
I bet your hockey team sucks too!
(insert sarcasm font)
lol, I started following the Cards since 07 when I found out KW was starting QB again
And been a fan since then.
As for hockey, I root for all but one Canadian team. The Leafs.
by CanadianCard on Nov 10, 2010 12:12 PM PST up reply actions
Wait... so you were a fan of Warner when he was a RAM?
DOUBLE EMBARRASSED.
And who roots for the Leafs? Heh.
I was actually a fan of him when since I first heard about him in 1999
Always liked the guy. I was glad when he came here in 05, even though he was going through his bad stretch around that time.
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan [I have always lived in Arizona, dad is from Chicago].
I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team(s), throughout the good and the bad. And don't switch to whichever team wins the Super Bowl each year.
I don't get you, how is being a Warner fan embrassing?
by CanadianCard on Nov 11, 2010 3:22 PM PST up reply actions
Warner is one of the most likable people in the NFL too.
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan [I have always lived in Arizona, dad is from Chicago].
I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team(s), throughout the good and the bad. And don't switch to whichever team wins the Super Bowl each year.
I think he meant it's embarrassing to like a Ram?
But I could be wrong. Kurt Warner = my favorite QB I’ve ever watched live aside from Hasselbeck. 09 playoffs against Green Bay. 08 Super Bowl. The guy was a stud.
Why can't my higher than average expectations ever be met in the football world? Why?
I don't think Warner ever did something to you guys like what Favre did to us.
Maybe the 2nd half comeback last season in UoP Stadium, but that is all I can really think of right now.
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan [I have always lived in Arizona, dad is from Chicago].
I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team(s), throughout the good and the bad. And don't switch to whichever team wins the Super Bowl each year.
In Arizona
Do you have to check your shoes for scorpions?
I’d hate that.
Sometimes
There was a crapload of them in my yard once, but I haven’t seen any for a while.
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan [I have always lived in Arizona, dad is from Chicago].
I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team(s), throughout the good and the bad. And don't switch to whichever team wins the Super Bowl each year.
Larry F'n gerald will play a big part in this weeks matchup for Arizona
With Derek Anderson starting as QB Larry will have more balls thrown his way. Last game he had 6 receptions for 72 yards with 2 touchdowns.
Has the team improved in any way since we last played you?
We’ve gotten worse, if anything. Though Okung could push us back into having a functional offense…
Why can't my higher than average expectations ever be met in the football world? Why?
We're committing less turnovers (0 turnovers in the last game) and DA is a bit more accurate and throwing less INT's
Those are the only improvements I’ve seen since we last played you guys.
by CanadianCard on Nov 10, 2010 12:17 PM PST up reply actions
That basically
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan [I have always lived in Arizona, dad is from Chicago].
I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team(s), throughout the good and the bad. And don't switch to whichever team wins the Super Bowl each year.
The return of Cole and/or Mebane should ideally make our defensive unit quite a bit more solid.
How much faith in DA do you have that, if the running game is stuffed, he’ll get pressured into making mistakes?
I’m imagining this is the Hawks’ game plan. Stuff the run, force DA to make bad passes.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
I get nervous every time he drops back to pass
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan [I have always lived in Arizona, dad is from Chicago].
I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team(s), throughout the good and the bad. And don't switch to whichever team wins the Super Bowl each year.
Keep in mind, the Cards ran well on us while we still had Red Bryant.
Mebane was missing, though, that might have been it, but looking back at the runs, a lot of it was stretched outside against the strongside, with Lutui pulling and taking out Curry.
by jacobstevens on Nov 12, 2010 5:22 PM PST up reply actions
Every team has played us with the goal of stuffing the run and forcing the QB to carry the team.
They would have to be imbeciles to do otherwise. It doesn’t take a genius to look at Anderson’s history and see how much a threat he is and no one is giving an undrafted rookie a thought. The Seahawks actually played more coverage against us than any other team when Hall was in. It was extremely effective on passing downs too. Hall’s QB rating that game was 13.5.
How the hell did the Bucs drop 38 points on you AT HOME?!
I know Tampa has been playing well, but not THAT well! They’re nowhere as good as the Giants, who luckily caught us with a ton of injuries.
Ugh, don’t tell anyone, but the Hawks look like absolute horseshit right now. If you don’t beat us by at least 20 points, the Cards have no business winning this division.
Two Interceptions returned for Touchdown.
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan [I have always lived in Arizona, dad is from Chicago].
I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team(s), throughout the good and the bad. And don't switch to whichever team wins the Super Bowl each year.
Why is it half of your touchdowns are on treturns?
Michael Robinson leads the Seahawks in completion percentage, yards-per-attempt, and QB rating.
No idea
Just the way the ball bounces I guess.
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan [I have always lived in Arizona, dad is from Chicago].
I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team(s), throughout the good and the bad. And don't switch to whichever team wins the Super Bowl each year.
Because...
our offense has sucked, our defense has been opportunistic and our special teams is our most consistant unit.
Why only one rec to a green comment?
The thread from our first matchup looks like a late St. Patrick’s Day celebration.
None of us are excited about anything right now. A couple weeks ago, the division was exciting!
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Sad but true
It’s starting to look like “Celebrity Boxing” up in this piece.
Stupid Rams. All young and good and shit.
Someone got bored I guess
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan [I have always lived in Arizona, dad is from Chicago].
I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team(s), throughout the good and the bad. And don't switch to whichever team wins the Super Bowl each year.
It was pretty obvious who did it too.
Since you can’t rec your own comments.
by Mind of no mind on Nov 11, 2010 4:39 PM PST up reply actions
I actually had an idea to do that myself a few days before it happend just to see how it'd look.
But I decided not to do it, since it seemed too much like trolling.
by Mind of no mind on Nov 11, 2010 4:37 PM PST up reply actions
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