Wells and Warner lead the Cardinals to victory.
by Ryansthefan on Nov 17, 2009 8:15 PM MST
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Beanie Wells and Kurt Warner put in stellar second half performances to lead Arizona to a 31-20 victory over the Seattle Seahawks in Glendale Sunday afternoon. After only gaining 10 yards rushing in the first half, Wells exploded for 75 yards rushing including two touchdown runs of 11 and 13 yards. Wells also caught two passes for 32 yards. Kurt Warrner was 29 of 38 for 340 yards and two touchdowns. Warner's two touchdowns gave him 200 for his career.
Arizona had threattened to take an early 7-0 lead in the first quarter when a pass interference penalty gave the Cardinals a first-and-goal at the six yard line. Seattle's defense stepped up with a huge goal line stand when Tim Hightower was stopped short of the goal line on 4th down. The Seahawk's Marcus Trufant had an end zone interception overturned when it was determined that he did not reestablish his position inbounds when stepped out of bounds prior to his interception.
Seattle took advantange when Matt Hasselbeck found TJ Houshmandzadeh for a 53 yard gain. The drive culminated with a Justin Forsett 11 yard run.
The Seahawks took a 14-0 lead when Hasselback found Jon Carlsson on a 31 yard catch. Facing a 3rd-and-1 from the Cardinals' 31 yard line, the Cardinals were expecting a run play but Carlsson had faked out safety Adrian Wilson and went downfield and scored an easy toughdown.
Arizona answered with a seven play 65 yard drive that ended with a 28 yard touchdown pass from Warner to Steve Breaston to make it a 14-7 ball game.
Both teams then traded field goals and Seattle held a 17-10 halftime lead.
The second half the Arizona Cardinals and Wells took over the game. Arizona tied the game at 17 with a 13 play 82 yard drive that ended with a Wells 11 yard touchdown run. The drive included a 18 yard pass to Breaston and a 15 yard pass to Lerod Stephens-Howling.
After Seattle took a 20-17 lead early in the fouth quarter, Arizona took the lead for good on back-to-back touchdown drives. On the first one Anquan Boldin caught a pass for 37 yards. Wells finished the drive with a 13 yar run. The next possession for the Cardinals scored with a 18 yard touchdown pass from Kurt Warner to Larry Fitzgerald. The drive included a 29 yard run and 23 yard pass by Wells.
Seattle's final two drives were thwarted by interceptions by Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Wilson.
Notes:
-Arizona had 122 yards rushing.This is the first time this season that the Cardinals had back-to-back games of 100 yards rushing.
-Kurt Warner two touchdown passes gave him 200 for carrer.
-With Anquan Boldin's eight catches for 108 yards he became the fifth fast player to have over 7,000 carrer passing yards. Larry Fitzergerald can eclipse the same feat this season with 400 more passing yards.
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Beanie should be the starter.
But I like how him and Hightower split carries. Doing it like that will help keep both of them fresh throughout the year.
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan.
No band-wagoner fans allowed, pick a team and stick with em, throughout the good and the bad.
Leave it as is
If Hightower is showing some effectiveness in his carries, it suggests Wells will do even better when he comes in. If Timmy is struggling the staff can see how and adjust their play calls to take advantage of Wells’ skills when he’s in. Next year the roles will be reversed and Hightower will return to the role he had last year with Edge starting.
As Bez said in another thread, the Cards need to utilize their jumbo package and use Timmy to grind out the clock to finish off games so I don’t have to see a cardiologist every Monday morning.
We all leave footprints in the sands of time, just watch out for the discarded fish hooks!
One Correction to the Analysis
You said:
The Seahawks took a 14-0 lead when Hasselback found Jon Carlsson on a 31 yard catch. Facing a 3rd-and-1 from the Cardinals’ 31 yard line, the Cardinals were expecting a run play but Carlsson had faked out safety Adrian Wilson and went downfield and scored an easy toughdown.
When actually:
– It didn’t look good for safety Adrian Wilson when Seahawks tight end John Carlson was wide open on his 31-yard touchdown catch, but Whisenhunt absolved Wilson. The Cards were in a three-deep defense and Wilson was supposed to cover the receiver in the flat (which is where Wilson was headed). Cornerback Bryant McFadden was supposed to take the receiver down the field, except McFadden also headed to the flat.
-Posted by darrenurban on November 16, 2009 – 11:43 am
http://blog.azcardinals.com/
Below is a Pyrrhuloxia nest we discovered in a cholla near our home in the spring:
http://football.ballparks.com/NFL/ArizonaCardinals/turf.jpg
by Maynard Leopold on Nov 18, 2009 6:52 PM MST reply actions
Yup
Not a great game for B Mac
What? I didn't break it, I was just testing its durability, and then I placed it in the woods becuase it's made out of wood and I just thought he should be with his family.
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Lack Of Attention To Detail Led To That Touchdown!
Both McFadden and Wilson were over there in the flat most likely to help stop a potential run play. If you see a replay you’ll see that Wilson had initial coverage on Carlson but he wasn’t expecting Carlson to go downfield. Wilson went in the flat turned around and saw Carlson running free with the football into the endzone! That certainly was a lack to attention to detail on the part of the Cardinal secondary!
Not sure what else there is to say about it, really...
– It didn’t look good for safety Adrian Wilson when Seahawks tight end John Carlson was wide open on his 31-yard touchdown catch, but Whisenhunt absolved Wilson. The Cards were in a three-deep defense and Wilson was supposed to cover the receiver in the flat (which is where Wilson was headed). Cornerback Bryant McFadden was supposed to take the receiver down the field, except McFadden also headed to the flat.
-Posted by darrenurban on November 16, 2009 – 11:43 am
http://blog.azcardinals.com/
Below is a Pyrrhuloxia nest we discovered in a cholla near our home in the spring:
http://football.ballparks.com/NFL/ArizonaCardinals/turf.jpg
by Maynard Leopold on Nov 19, 2009 6:52 PM MST up reply actions
At the game, I was really surprised
Beanie was not on the field for the goal line attempts. The guy’s a horse. Even if you just use him for play action, I think you need him on the field inside the 5 yd line.
by Drullin'OverDaCards on Nov 20, 2009 3:34 PM MST reply actions
Have we already forgotten that Hightower was a TD machine last year?
Be careful....to a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
No I haven't forgotten, but this year . . .
if I need a yard I am going with Beanie over HT every time.
by Drullin'OverDaCards on Nov 23, 2009 4:21 PM MST up reply actions
beanie killed on his pass blocking he just owned every player he blocked
And on the wilson mcfadden mix up if you rewatch the game wilson called the flat and mcfadden didn’t adjust
The Devil Birds just got cha
by DaCards on Nov 22, 2009 12:10 AM MST via mobile reply actions
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