What can I add that Peter King doesn't point out in his Monday Morning Quarterback, Tuesday Edition? Heck, Dennis Green's raving post-game explosion best encapsulates the take home message of the MNF meltdown.
"The Bears are who we thought they were!" Dennis Green said, yelling at the top of his lungs and pounding on the podium at his postgame press conference. "Now, if you want to crown them, then crown [them]! But they are who [we] thought they were! And we let them off the hook!" Green then stormed away.
I'm one of the many who fell asleep, shocked that the Cardinals had a 20 pt lead over the ferocious, fantastic, freakin' unbeatable Bears. Imagine waking up to the ridiculous replays showing Rackers missing the game winning field goal. Before anyone decides that Rackers needs to get the Vanderjagt treatment, the important question that needs to be raked over the coals is "WHAT WERE THE CARDINALS DOING BEHIND IN THE FOURTH QUARTER?" Sure, the Bears are a "team of destiny," according to Lovie Smith, but really, the Cardinals lost the game more than the Bears won...that's the reason for Rex Grossman's shite-eating grin during his post-game interview.
What's the main thing that we can point to for the Cardinals' phantasmically disgusting loss: Offensive line play/ground game. This is the stat of the night for me: Edge running for 55 yards on 36(!) carries with one fumble lost. That's about one and a half yards per carry. That's so bad that it makes the last days of Eddie George look like Tiki Barber's productivity. Edgerrin James was a product of the Colts excellent O-line play, and we now see that he's sub-mediocre.NOTES AND SUCH:
- Someone, SOMEONE, has to be traded, kicked off, or sold for a ration of peanut butter from the Cardinals. Atone, for the football gods will not look kindly on this kind of choke.
- How happy are the Bears for the BYE week? No emotional letdown game (poor 49ers, if their matchup with the Bears came on Week 7 instead of Week 8, I'd seriously think that they'd have a shot to take down Chicago).
- Never blame a kicker if everyone else on the team failed.
- Anytime a coach goes crazy, like Dennis Green, during an interview, it makes for compelling television.
- EDGE sucks. Both the RB and the guitarist.
- Interested journalistic spin: Yahoo! recap of the game, "Chicago's Thomas Jones managed just 39 yards in 11 carries." The Bears only ran 16 times the ENTIRE game. But still, Jones was averaging more than 3 yards a carry...compare that to James.
- I'm still in shock over this game. Wow.
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i seem to be finding more and more atheletes (e.g.- grossman) that hold a startling resemblence to corky (http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/faculty/jfleitas/bandaides/corky.gif)
take the cardinal's pitcher Josh Hancock for example:
http://sports-ak.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=7000
Who I Like Tonight, and I Mean Tony Kornheiser
Chicago 35, Arizona 13.
Not much drama. Not much reason to tune in past midway through the second quarter. By that time ESPN will have shown you the grand new stadium in Glendale (across the parking lot from where the Coyotes play), and you will have heard some of the Matt Leinart miking (now that's a great idea, wiring a quarterback about to be sacked nine times), and the Bears will be up 21-0. Around that time, weather permitting, the Mets and Cards will be 1-1 in the fourth and a better watch.
Corky, really? It took me a while to put it together, but I think I have it figured out. "Rex Grossman" is clearly a made-up name. He's actually Eddie Munster, all hopped up on HGH.
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