Worst loss in Franchise History?

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sorry man,...dont mean to laugh at your pain...but it seems the things like this are the hardest to forget...and in expressing laughter I am actually commiserating with you in pain...we have all been there.
All good Oak! We have to laugh sometimes to keep from crying.....AGAIN! LMAO!!!!
 

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I still think the Monday night meltdown was the worst.

We were totally hosed.

The one play that stands out still.
We give the ball to edge, he runs a little but gets his leg grabbed. Then another defender dives at his legs,..then another, and another...Edge was on total lock down...stood up, with 5 or 6 defenders piled waste high around him...totally could not move for like four seconds...a definitive forward progress situation.
Five yards away you see Brian Urlacher stop...looking at the play...obviously expecting a whistle,...because, well...forward progress had been halted..
Then you see Urlacher realize that the official standing 3 yards away watching Edge, well he ain't gonna blow the whistle!!
So Urlacher jumps too, runs over and drags the ball away from Edge, who can't resist because he is totally pinned...then Urlacher runs in for the Touchdown.
Was obvious to me at that moment there was no way the officials or the nfl was going to allow that arrogant ass Dennis Green make these loser ass upstart Cardinals into a winner. That game. That season. That coaching staff. All the hope that came with it...
It was all dead and gone right then and there.

For whatever reasons...we are never just fighting against our opponents on the field.
Rather it's the Pottsville curse...the NFL not being ready for a dark skinned HC to win a Lombardi...or Billy B always taking the moral high ground in a league full of dirtbag owners,..or the fact the Cardinals milked the nfl profit sharing like welfare for decades .... something always turns up to play Lucy to our Charlie Brown.
A lot of those obstacles are gone now. So the team has to find new ways to remain the laughingstock of pro sports.

But I have to admit.... I grudgingly admire their creativity
Funny, this game, I also cried. Sheeez. The hell is wrong with me?
 

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I can’t believe you guys still get so distraught over these games.

You have to change the way you view this team. Today was HIGH COMEDY.

I mean, we follow up the face fumble… with a goal-line fumble… followed up by an INTERCEPTION WE FUMBLE THEN KICK INTO THE ENDZONE FOR THEM TO SCORE A TD.

Come on guys… that’s comedy. All that was missing in this game was the Benny Hill music.
I changed a couple of years ago (like you) and I don't regret it.
 

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There has been so many gut punch losses over the years, they all feel the same.

What’s changed over the years is my ability to absorb them has improved.

I will say, the series of events leading to the loss was a first. The keystone cops would have been proud:(

The context matters too.

That poor Denny Green team tried the best they could. They were just overmatched.

CAR is a horrible, horrible team. Really awful, and it was a crucial game for all the leaders on this team, so the stakes were higher. We had no excuse losing that game. None.

But they carelessly gave it away, in the most capricious of manners. It was a new level of incompetence.

This was the worst loss in history by a mile.
 

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This came up on my feed today, so you have to watch it too

"Thievery in the desert!"

I remember the announcer saying that at one point. Never forget it as long as I live.
 

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The context matters too.

That poor Denny Green team tried the best they could. They were just overmatched.

CAR is a horrible, horrible team. Really awful, and it was a crucial game for all the leaders on this team, so the stakes were higher. We had no excuse losing that game. None.

But they carelessly gave it away, in the most capricious of manners. It was a new level of incompetence.

This was the worst loss in history by a mile.
Yes. The Bears were undefeated. The Titans were Defeated.
 

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Yes. The Bears were undefeated. The Titans were Defeated.
And will be most likely, completely defeated all season, save for our game.

In a year where we’re setting comical “Only The Cardinals” records in futility, becoming the first team in NFL history to ever lose 3 straight walk off FGs, and the first team to ever lose 3 straight leading by 7 going into the 4th quarter), maybe we can also become the first franchise ever to lose to three otherwise completely defeated teams, joking previous Cardinals catastrophe’s and who lost to the 1996’s NY Jets when they went 1-15 and I believe there was also a season when the Niners went 2-14 where we lost to them TWICE to give them their only 2 wins of the season!
 

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I believe there was also a season when the Niners went 2-14 where we lost to them TWICE to give them their only 2 wins of the season!
That was super embarrassing but I think we made the playoffs.
Nope, they were 6-10 in 2004 under Denny Green. They lost both games to the 49ers 31-28 in OT.
 

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so i asked a.i. about dropping 5 in a row

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That was super embarrassing but I think we made the playoffs.

Nope, they were 6-10 in 2004 under Denny Green. They lost both games to the 49ers 31-28 in OT.

I didn’t go back to re-break the ties, but I seem to remember that had we won those two games (and everything else played out the same), we would’ve made the playoffs at 8-8 in 2004.
 

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