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Arizona Cardinals' Kurt Warner Looks To Light Up His Former Team

Not many teams have been able to slow down Kurt Warner and the passing attack of the Arizona Cardinals this season. Warner is putting up MVP-type numbers with six multiple TD games, three games of over 350 yards passing and only two games with multiple turnovers. Not only does Warner have three receivers on pace for over 1,000 yards, he's on pace for his best season since 2001 when he called St. Louis his home.

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The Rams secondary is ranked a woeful 26th in passing yardage but they, much like the rest of the team, have played better since a rough start. The first two weeks of the season the Rams gave up a combined 674 yards and six touchdowns (zero interceptions) to the Giants and Eagles. To their credit though they've rebounded and have allowed just 216 yards allowed per game since while allowing four TDs and picking off six passes over the past five games. The Rams secondary has plenty of experience with an average starting age of 29 years old. The veteran of the group is former Cardinal, Corey Chavous who was never a great player but he's steady and can come up in the box and support the run. If the Cardinals can get him matched up on a receiver though, they'll have a big advantage. At the corners Tye Hill (26, 3rd season) and Fakhir Brown (31, 9th season) are both decent players but they'll be at a significant height disadvantage considering that both are under 6'0. Free safety Oshiomogho Atogwe (27, 4th season) is having the best year of the group with four of the team's six interceptions, including three in the past two games. He's also returned a fumble for a touchdown. He can play the deep middle and Warner will have to know where Atogwe is before he goes down field.

When you look at the Rams secondary and consider the fact that Fitzgerald  and Boldin have had plenty of success against this familiar foe, it's hard to imagine them not having good games. Fitzgerald has been fabulous against the Rams with a TD in four straight games (8 total in 8 games) and he's averaged 87 yards per game (including three 100 yard games). Boldin's been equally impressive with 87 yards per game, with four 100 yard games, and four touchdowns in eight games. The Rams will have to have to play out of their minds to slow down Warner and company down. Agree/Disagree? What can the Rams do to slow Warner down and give him problems?

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They can’t and won’t stop them from scoring. This game will be up to our defense. Lets hope last weeks first half D shows up to play the whole game this week.

by badmatty53 on Oct 31, 2008 9:55 AM MDT reply actions   0 recs

Keep Warner off the field

Ball control by the Rams and minimizing Warner’s opportunities to direct the offense. Atogwe could single-handedly win this game with pick-offs and solid returns. He’s a gamer…Rolle for Atogwe, straight up trade? ::sound of crickets::This is a winnable game for the Rams, especially if the Cards start slowly.

If the Cards can start quickly, it could get ugly like the last game of last season. I still have that one on TiVo, I hope the Cards do too to remind them how they can tear apart the Rams. The quicker the Cards get up on the Rams the more likely the Rams will sit Jackson to keep him fresh for the remainder of the season. The quicker the Cards get up the more Bulger has to pass, the more times he gets hit, the more opportunities the secondary has to make some plays.

Slow start final score: Cards 31 Rams 28
Fast start final score: Cards 42 Rams 13

We all leave footprints in the sands of time, just watch out for the discarded fish hooks!

by Hawkwind on Oct 31, 2008 10:06 AM MDT reply actions   0 recs

Your right

Turnovers and ball control will be essential for the Rams to win this game. If they can keep our defense on the field they have a good shot.

by badmatty53 on Oct 31, 2008 11:26 AM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

quick start

I really like your ideas on what’ll happen if we get out of the gates quickly.

by cgolden on Nov 2, 2008 12:04 AM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

Watched that 48-19 game this AM

…and it wasn’t the quick start I remembered but rather Antrel Rolle returning INTs for TDs and LOTS of Larry Fitzgerald. Antogwe had a couple of INTs himself. Here’s hoping Rolle repeats this week and not Antogwe.

We all leave footprints in the sands of time, just watch out for the discarded fish hooks!

by Hawkwind on Nov 2, 2008 10:07 AM MST up reply actions   0 recs

Parallels is all

It was the same referee crew in the Rams game in AZ last year as today too. I was experiencing mild deja vu.

We all leave footprints in the sands of time, just watch out for the discarded fish hooks!

by Hawkwind on Nov 2, 2008 9:49 PM MST up reply actions   0 recs

We're going to slaughter them...

Just please stay healthy Cards.

What’s up with Doucet??? The guy has been hurt more than he’s been healthy since we drafted, what the crap?

by boogatt66 on Oct 31, 2008 12:15 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

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