Found my own answer...Vegas had the Cardinals at 8 wins last year.
cardswire.usatoday.com
That movie kinda personifies the Cardinals 2021 season. Surprise everyone with how tough and how well they play, but in the end get overwhelmed and succumb to the onslaught of the other teams.
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So we overachieved last year and are likely to underachieve this year? Logic says we’re are not starting 7-0/10-2.Found my own answer...Vegas had the Cardinals at 8 wins last year.
Vegas sets Cardinals' 2021 win total near .500
Vegas believes it is more likely that the Cardinals will miss the playoffs than make them in 2021.
I’m all in on the under. I’d be in if it was 7 1/2.
People keep saying this but there are no magic bullets coming. We know who's left in FA. It's all middle to end of the roaster guys. Counting on the draft is a joke with who's making the picks. June cuts might bring in one or two decent guys but it's not going to plug all of the holes on this team with quality. We're at the point now where, outside of the draft, you're mostly picking up the scrubs to fill out the roster. The only real hope in adding a big piece is through trade but we don't have a ton of capital to give up. Especially for how many holes there are to fill.
So you built your own case on making a prediction today. Go ahead and give it!!
I did earlier in the thread.
I have them at 5 wins looking at who they play. That is with giving them an extra win since they'll end up beating someone that I don't expect them to.
You might be able to make money on that. But that is why I choose not to bet. I will never place a bet on the Cardinals sucking, even though they may. But that is just me.I did earlier in the thread.
I'm really thinking of throwing money at the under right now if it's at 8.5 or 9. I just need to figure out how to place a bet now. I never hear any advertising or anything on sports books these days.
I think they will beat 5 wins but 9 wins.......nahh don't think so. Why can't you go to one of the local casinos (Like Talking Stick) for making a sports bet?? I know Vegas has these large sports betting areas but I really don't know what the local ones have. I'll still wait till late August to make my predictions but certainly won't put any money on as the Cards will do the opposite on whatever I bet on.I did earlier in the thread.
I'm really thinking of throwing money at the under right now if it's at 8.5 or 9. I just need to figure out how to place a bet now. I never hear any advertising or anything on sports books these days.
How can you post this with a straight face? How do you propose we pressure the passer? Do you think we're going to get an EDGE high in the draft that VJ will be able to properly develop in time? A trade, a slag-heap signing? Same problems at WR, IOL, DL? These are positions where we clearly have less talent than last year. And last year we didn't have enough talent on this roster. So, how do you propose this roster will be good enough?
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And as I've said many times, we have the draft, with few high-end picks, and an absolute bleak crop of FAs left. Where are the needed upgrades going to come from? You only addressed one of those areas, and frankly not well at all. Chandler Jones wasn't what he used to be, but those are still numbers/pressure we need to replace, let alone a guy teams would game plan against. Your "less is more" idea is certainly less. We go into the season with what we have at edge, we'd better score 35+ per game. Even with some patchwork at edge, our defense will struggle.Because the roster isn't finished by a long way. As I have said many times. You're moaning about an unfinished painting because a) you like moaning and b) you don't have the patience to wait and see the final picture.
What have we lost at Edge? A guy that had 5 sacks in 16 games? You are judging the drop off at Edge based on what CJ was, not what he was last season (or the season before). Which was invisible in many games and complete garbage vs the run. He's not going to be as hard to replace as you think.
Every time I think we are in a hole at OLB a think about that play vs Carolina where they had a walk in touchdown from 5 yards. Where CJ had the Edge, saw the handoff yet still managed to somehow tackle the wrong man and let the ball carrier just walk in. And I think "Yeah, we haven't lost much more than a name". It was one of the worst plays I've ever seen from an Edge.
This play
Can we stick a fork in Chandler Jones?
The Panthers have one of the worst offensive lines in the league. Their starting left tackle was out and Dennis Daley who is their backup Guard was playing LT. He has a season pass blocking grade of 38.7. Chandler had 0 sacks, 0 TFLs, 2 tackles and 1 QB hit. He got totally handled by a nobody...
All we have to replace in reality is 36 pressures, 5 sacks, 8 hurries and absolute atrocious run defense. I'm confident we can do that easily between Kennard and Gardeck even as things stand. Yet I expect they will add more along the D line yet.
We’ve downgraded at pretty much every positional group outside of TE maybe, but yea the roster will definitely be good enough, lmao.
Yeah, I hear that crap all the time. I don't pay any attention as I'm not into any forms of gambling.
So, we should expect to start contending in, what, 2 or 3 years after a nice, slow rebuild? Like, when our QB's cap hit is through the roof? Keim has painted us into a corner by not building a better roster for years. Now he doesn't have the time for the pragmatic approach. He's created too much of a talent deficit at key positions. Little patches at non-starting spots are certainly not going to be enough. If this kid does get his head turned around to become the QB we need him to be, we have to have a good enough team around him. And we do not, and most don't see how we can possibly.
It isn't rational, no.
