Time for fans to tread water:

[Crazy Canuck]

There are a lot of zeros on their pay check that spells out: proffessional athelete.Every pay checked widdles away at the patience anyone is going to have for these players at any time in their career.

Professional athlete. (How it's spelled and pronounced)

 

[Duckjake]

Apparantly, Whiz is 23 and 4 when leading after 3 quarters. Two of those losses were this year. (This is according to Fun Katie from Ron and Wolfe. She said that Kent Somers tweeted that. I looked and I couldn't find the tweet. But it could be old.) It sure doesn't seem like it. But... okay. So Whiz can coach. Because this was definitly an issue preWhiz. I think? It sure seemed like it.

That is sort of misleading using the end of the 3rd quarter. The Cards under Whisenhunt have lost 10 games in which they were tied or had the lead in the 4th quarter. Since they've lost 37 that seems like a high percentage but...

Don't know how that compares with other teams but I do know the SB game magnifies it greatly and then there were several games where the Cards had big leads and held on to win including the OT game vs Dallas and the playoff game vs Green Bay in '08. And of course if you go back before CKW....no let's don't.

 

[Denny Green Fan]

My nine year old nephew called me up a few weeks ago and told me the

Arizona rookie runner got hurt. Says he is an Arizona fan like his daddy.

So cute

 

[Mitch]

Well, Catfish, my good friend, I admire your patience. So much so, that I am going to do my every best to defer to your wisdom. I am trying to remain upbeat (desperately so)---but as I look at the Cardinals from every angle from the FO to the HC to the staff to the personnel to the collective will of the players---it's very difficult to imagine this team winning games, no matter who they play.

The light switch was on for much of the 55 minutes this past Sunday and when the Cardinals elect to turn it off, as they did once again, the darkness seems irreparably dispiriting.

What last Sunday proved===per usual--- they have it in them when they want to turn the light on---but their propensity to flick the switch off is so typical with them--- that they---bottom line---don't really want to win---do they? Is it too much effort?

It really isn't a matter of confidence either---it's a matter of a collective propensity to quit.

Yet, if we see what you are waiting patiently for, I will heap kudos your way in volumes. Sorry to be so skeptical. I wish I saw more in them. Thank you, however, for providing a tincture of hope---they very thing we have been trying to conjure up for the past three weeks.

You're the best, Fish. I am so glad you are on our side.

 

[Darkside]

I don't understand all the negative nancy, sissy stuff sometimes. I'm 43 years old and was dying for a team to come to AZ. When the Cardinals came here I was overjoyed and I still am. I'd much rather complain about our team, than complain we don't have one. For anyone who remembers the decades of no football team here, this is nothing. Not only that, and I hate to say this, but not only that, if you're a real Cardinal fan and are old enough, you've seen this team pull much worse crap than this. Way worse. You should be used to it.

Having said that, what's to get so stressed about? Because we're 1-3 and lost to Seattle, or even because we should be 4-0. If we deserved to be 4-0 we would be. You are what you are. Look at the Bills and look at the Lions, two teams who made tremendous strides this year so far, just tremendous. Anyone think they're going to the Superbowl? Anyone even think they'll win one playoff game? Records after 4 games don't impress me (although they have, on occasion depressed the hell out of me). Sure I'd rather be at anything other than 1-3 or 0-4, but for the most part I think this team is improved vastly over last years (although you can't really tell that sometimes). All I ask for is improvement.

And, I just have to add, we're going to tear up the 2nd half of our schedule, just dominate it. Mark my words.

 

[Darkside]

Here's our schedule:

1 Sep 11 CAR @ ARI 1 WIN
2 Sep 18 ARI @ WAS LOSS
3 Sep 25 ARI @ SEA LOSS
4 Oct 02 NYG @ ARI LOSS
5 Oct 09 ARI @ MIN
6 Bye
7 Oct 23 PIT @ ARI
8 Oct 30 ARI @ BAL
9 Nov 06 STL @ ARI
10 Nov 13 ARI @ PHI
11 Nov 20 ARI @ SF
12 Nov 27 ARI @ STL
13 Dec 04 DAL @ ARI
14 Dec 11 SF @ ARI
15 Dec 18 CLE @ ARI
16 Dec 24 ARI @ CIN
17 Jan 01 SEA @ ARI

Even if you count MIN, PIT, and BAL as losses, our next 3 games, look at the rest of the schedule. By the time the BAL game rolls around we'll have played every mentally tough team that we will face this year. Then we get STL, PHI, SF, STL, DAL, SF, CLE, CIN, SEA. By the time those games roll around we'll have played several superior teams both mentally and physically. I say we destroy them all. And I bet we beat SF twice this year, which will be sweet.

 

[Duckjake]

It really takes a super positive attitude to believe that the Cardinals can finish this season with a 9-0 run after losing 6 straight. Even that they could go 7-2 beating SF twice after that which is probably the minimum it will take to win the division takes some real faith. You are to be commended for that.

As for understanding all the negative stuff. The Cards have lost 14 of their last 20 games. That's all the explanation that should be necessary.

I don't understand why anyone should be happy just because the current team doesn't stink as bad as some others. I want to be happy because our team is good like in 2008 and 2009.

 

[Catfish]

Here's our schedule:

1 Sep 11 CAR @ ARI 1 WIN
2 Sep 18 ARI @ WAS LOSS
3 Sep 25 ARI @ SEA LOSS
4 Oct 02 NYG @ ARI LOSS
5 Oct 09 ARI @ MIN
6 Bye
7 Oct 23 PIT @ ARI
8 Oct 30 ARI @ BAL
9 Nov 06 STL @ ARI
10 Nov 13 ARI @ PHI
11 Nov 20 ARI @ SF
12 Nov 27 ARI @ STL
13 Dec 04 DAL @ ARI
14 Dec 11 SF @ ARI
15 Dec 18 CLE @ ARI
16 Dec 24 ARI @ CIN
17 Jan 01 SEA @ ARI

Even if you count MIN, PIT, and BAL as losses, our next 3 games, look at the rest of the schedule. By the time the BAL game rolls around we'll have played every mentally tough team that we will face this year. Then we get STL, PHI, SF, STL, DAL, SF, CLE, CIN, SEA. By the time those games roll around we'll have played several superior teams both mentally and physically. I say we destroy them all. And I bet we beat SF twice this year, which will be sweet.

Aha!!! And suddenly the Darkside becomes brighter.

 

[Darkside]

It really takes a super positive attitude to believe that the Cardinals can finish this season with a 9-0 run after losing 6 straight. Even that they could go 7-2 beating SF twice after that which is probably the minimum it will take to win the division takes some real faith. You are to be commended for that.

As for understanding all the negative stuff. The Cards have lost 14 of their last 20 games. That's all the explanation that should be necessary.

I don't understand why anyone should be happy just because the current team doesn't stink as bad as some others. I want to be happy because our team is good like in 2008 and 2009.

I highly doubt this team goes on a 9-0 run. I simply meant they would dominate and find their rhythm, after being mentally prepared/taught throughout the first half of the season. Look at the schedule, even you would admit it's a soft schedule after the games we've already endured and the games we're about to endure over the next 4 weeks. It's totally soft, it's like going from college ball back to High School and you just dominate everything. That's what's going to happen, but we aren't going 9-0.

I'm not happy that we suck. I just prefer not to whine like a b*tch. Never let 'em see you sweat.