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Q: For years, you've been asking for certain athletes to be wheeled out on the court or field in a Hannibal Lecter Mask. Well, isn't Anquan Boldin perfect for that? For all the talk of T.O. and Brandon Marshall, Boldin has to be the strongest receiver in the game. You've got a better chance of your defensive coordinator stopping him with an elephant gun than relying on an 185-pound defensive back. Plus, the man BROKE HIS FACE. After hearing Eric Allen describe how they had to lift the skin on his face to insert the plates and he's playing at such a high level three weeks later, is there any question that he could be one of the toughest men in the NFL?
-- William Evans, Columbus, Ohio
SG: I would say he's No. 1 on the list. The broken face story absolutely amazed me; I never fully realized how bad it was until the Monday night guys discussed it, and I ended up spending an hour Googling stories about it. First, can you imagine if that happened to Vince Carter? He would never be seen again. He would just sit in a dark room with a towel over his head moaning until 2057. Second, isn't it weird that Boldin's new face makes him look like a cross between Shannon Sharpe and Ervin Johnson? Do you think he's angry at the doctor? Third, how does Boldin continue to run fearlessly over the middle after what happened to him? It's like he took amnesia pills to forget the whole thing ever happened.
Fourth, if he doesn't win a 2009 ESPY, then we're going to have to start wondering about the credibility of that show. (Oh, wait, that credibility was destroyed after the college softball player who got carried around the bases won the "Most Inspirational ESPY" over Jon Lester, who only battled back from cancer to win the deciding game of the 2007 World Series. Scratch that.) And fifth, it has become humanly impossible to root against the Cardinals to win the NFC -- unless you root for one of the other NFC teams, of course -- between Boldin's courage, their exciting passing game, Football Outsiders hero Adrian Wilson, Kurt Warner's incredible renaissance (it's a bad sports movie starring Josh Hartnett waiting to happen at this point), every interviewer's reaction when Warner starts talking about religion, the chance of Cuba Gooding crashing the Super Bowl and screaming "Show Me The Money" 500 times at Media Day, the "Who does Ken Whisenhunt look like, it's driving me crazy?" game, and the surreal, peculiar, implausible possibility of the Arizona Freaking Cardinals playing in a Super Bowl.
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I was on the "trade Q for draft picks" bandwagon and now am squarely off it after this performance. He just means too much and whatever our furutre is at the QB position is going to be a made a hell of alot easier by having both these guys.
If Indy can do it (pay 2 WRS) so can we. Show him the money.
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I was on the "trade Q for draft picks" bandwagon and now am squarely off it after this performance.
OK folks, prepare your pitchforks and torches....
Here's the thing: I STILL think we should explore trades. His performance this season only increases the asking price, IMO. Would I love it if he stays? Hell yeah, he's still my favorite player. But if we can get a starting CB, OL, RB or another pass rushing OLB plus a couple of sweet draft picks the Cards need to do that deal. Even without Boldin we've got a good WR corps. With Boldin it's the best, but we're deficient in other areas.
JMHO.
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I was on the "trade Q for draft picks" bandwagon and now am squarely off it after this performance. He just means too much and whatever our furutre is at the QB position is going to be a made a hell of alot easier by having both these guys.
If Indy can do it (pay 2 WRS) so can we. Show him the money.
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Yeah I said to trade Boldin as I feel he will never play a 16 game season which I still believe, however, he is the heart and we will have a 1998 repeat if we let him go.
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Goal for 2008: Half as many penalties.
It reads as if he is first discovering what most of us already know, he is a one of a kind football player. I'm sure the Boston Redsocks never have gotten over losing the Babe in a trade with the Yanks! But with Ruth they won and won and won. Q is our Ruth. We need him to be here to make sure that during his playing career he will stear us, bad face and all to the NFL promised land! Show him the money!!
Here's the thing: I STILL think we should explore trades. His performance this season only increases the asking price, IMO. Would I love it if he stays? Hell yeah, he's still my favorite player. But if we can get a starting CB, OL, RB or another pass rushing OLB plus a couple of sweet draft picks the Cards need to do that deal. Even without Boldin we've got a good WR corps. With Boldin it's the best, but we're deficient in other areas.
JMHO.
Sadly in a way I must agree. For the team to move to the next level, the glaring areas of imporovment must be met. Ya' think the Pats are going to pat Cassel AND Brady?? No. They will let Cassel go at the end of the year....we can at least get some outstanding players now....it's business fella's and ladies.
Sadly in a way I must agree. For the team to move to the next level, the glaring areas of imporovment must be met. Ya' think the Pats are going to pat Cassel AND Brady?? No. They will let Cassel go at the end of the year....we can at least get some outstanding players now....it's business fella's and ladies.
If Cassel isnt a FA he wont be gone. Bank on it.
The team has already gone to the next level. Lets see how they end this season before we claim we need to take another step.
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“They said the road comes through Seattle. We came through here and took care of business.” Anquan Boldin
Sadly in a way I must agree. For the team to move to the next level, the glaring areas of imporovment must be met. Ya' think the Pats are going to pat Cassel AND Brady?? No. They will let Cassel go at the end of the year....we can at least get some outstanding players now....it's business fella's and ladies.
Apples and oranges. While Q and Larry are usually both on the field 95+% of the time, only one quarterback plays at a time.
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