That’s my biggest concern as well. What does it say to Warner and every other guy in that locker room if Whiz start Matty? The old adage of “playing the best 11” wouldn’t really apply anymore.

….as GB. Leinart has started 16 regular season games to Rodgers 0. GB was banking on the future with an unproven product while Leinart has shown us what to expect with him.

I’ll have to try and find out the last time a Cardinal QB took every snap in a season or at least played all 16 games.

With a tough second half schedule, I think a strong start is critical to a playoff push down the stretch. With that being said, I want whichever QB gets us the Dallas game at 4-1 or better. From what I’ve seen through three preseason games, that’s Kurt Warner.

Invest in a goat or teach the wife the nuances of the lawnmower. If you go the lawnmower route you have a great excuse to turn every TV on in the house to a game with the volume blaring, lock the doors, and feign ignorance that she was locked out of the house all day. Oh wait, who is going to bring you cold beer to swill? The goat will look great in your old Boldin or David Boston jersey and make satisfactory noises when you kick it in frustration every time Warner fumbles, Leinart passes INTs and beer bongs around the opposing DBs during and after the game, Fitzgerald delivers the loaf of bread as a fumble or Rackers misses wide left and blames his holder…again. Also when you run out of “crap” to eat, you’ve got a nice fat goat!

Indeed, we wait and hope the Cards can get out of the Broncos game in one piece and let the cuts happen and maybe by then Whiz will make a decision. I think our expectations will be met, otherwise we’ll all wash out our shorts from the shock and have a lot to vent about here at RotB. :P

The first one is debatable because I think Whiz tried to shift some blame to Fitz but the second and third are all on Leinart. He was trying to loft the second one over a defender but instead he threw it right to him. On the third one he waited to long to pull the trigger and by the time got close, there were three Raider defenders and Boldin had no chance.

“It’s more physical than it was mental” is about the lamest excuse I’ve heard yet. You “threw the ball to the wrong spot”…well, sure, you physcially tossed a duck down the field twice but your brain chose the spot….so it’s your weak arm that’s to blame? Then what about the scramble and toss to Urban, when a floating duck down the sideline where only URBAN could catch it would have been ideal…you tossed a bullet right to a ref-running-over-Raider. NICE! Leinart will be starting for the LA Avengers before Fitz’s contract is up since that’s where most of the Cards’ has-been QBs end up.

They definitely won the game with pounding the rock and a stout defense. That type of game is going away in today’s NFL but when it looks like it did on Saturday night, it’s a thing of beauty.

Or do you mean “Terry Bradshaw threw a lot of of INTs and Franco and the O-line saved their asses”? In that case, I totally gotcha your back on that! ;)

It’s refreshing to see a little run-control football coming from a team with a mostly white helmet. It’s been…well, a long time. OJ Anderson? Million Dollar Backfield? Nevermind those aborted attempts with Emmitt “Lure Cowboy Fans Into Seats Regularly” Smith, Thomas Jones, Garrison Hearst, etc., etc. etc.

But alas…it was preseason. Just like Rackers’ 59-yard field goal last year, doing it in the preseason only helps your chances of making the 53-man roster; doing it in the regular season is a totally different thing. Most of that “classic” game we saw was with the youngsters in the stable, not the “old” (never thought I’d be calling someone 10 years younger “old”!!) reliable in James. If Edge can pull of some consistent 10+ yard runs and break at least one 20+ yarder against the Niners, Dolphins, Jets, and Redskins, then I think it’s permissible to paint one-half of the Cards’ helmet black with no logo in homage to the coaching staff’s predominate Steelers’ pedigree.

Talking about last times…when was the last time preseason was used as an excuse to tone-down a Cardinals positive rather than put on the blinders to another Cardinals blunder?