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I know Cards fans are aware of this not sure that it got enough attention yesterday. A significant portion of the game yesterday saw us with rookies Murphy and the Thompsons in there at DB with Kevin Peterson who was a UDFA who played part of 1 year with the Rams, tore his ACL and was out all last year.
So that's 3 rookies plus a guy who hasn't played in a year getting significant numbers of snaps. It was actually pretty impressive we held even a depleted WR group in check as long as we did. But then when it was right there to win, I felt like we went way too soft on D and let them go right down the field.
And again pointed this out yesterday, even on the scoring drive we were far too cavalier with the clock. There was a screen where Murray threw it away, the ball was snapped with over 20 seconds on the play clock, even the announcer commented on it because it seems like a hurry up to run a screen isn't necessarily what you should be doing. Then the 16 second drive.
Kyler bailed us out on the FG drive but that was really poorly handled the last 8 minutes or so.
So that's 3 rookies plus a guy who hasn't played in a year getting significant numbers of snaps. It was actually pretty impressive we held even a depleted WR group in check as long as we did. But then when it was right there to win, I felt like we went way too soft on D and let them go right down the field.
And again pointed this out yesterday, even on the scoring drive we were far too cavalier with the clock. There was a screen where Murray threw it away, the ball was snapped with over 20 seconds on the play clock, even the announcer commented on it because it seems like a hurry up to run a screen isn't necessarily what you should be doing. Then the 16 second drive.
Kyler bailed us out on the FG drive but that was really poorly handled the last 8 minutes or so.