It was a team victory, everyone made key contributions, but Bridges challenge was the steepest, and he mastered his job.

That Tim Hightower has received so little praise for his performance during the Vikings game. I’m well aware that he coughed up an early fumble and, had the outcome of the game been different, we may be pointing that fumble out as a focal point in momentum shift. However, we know the outcome and Tim Hightower played a huge role in that result. Even though he fumbled, he immediately exposed the Vikings defense of being susceptible to the run. This was something not even the Vikings were aware of prior to this game. While he did not have a dominating running performance, he had an efficient performance that was effective enough to keep him in the minds of the defense.

I agree with Undrafteds that Bridges had a masterful game. However, Bridges had help – a lot of help. I fear the results of his performance would have been vastly different had the Cardinals not stacked up to help him.

If you paid close attention to the game, and particularly the blocking of the offensive line, you would notice that Hightower was a blocking beast! When he wasn’t running the ball, he was playing the role of Michael Oher and protecting The Blind Side (pathetic movie reference attempt? go see it! 2 thumbs up!) Unless I missed something, I didn’t see Tim Hightower miss anything! Time and time again, I watched as he picked up the blitz perfectly and provided Warner with the much needed protection to have a stellar game. I believe our offensive line has imporived immensely throughout the previous few years. However, the fact of the matter is that if the defense sends enough blitzers, someone is going to get through. Where we have been lacking in previous years and even early this year has been in the blocking of our tight ends and certainly the pass protection from our backs. We weren’t lacking in either category against the Vikings.

Bridges had a terrific game. Our tight ends had a terrific game. Warner and Boldin, both terrific games. All of these are made possible by pass protection. The difference? Tim Hightower is physically smaller than the blitzing beasts he is blocking. Also, Hightower is alone on an island when picking up that blitzer—he doesn’t have a tight end or a guard next to him helping. If he misses his assignment, or gets shucked to the side like an annoying little flea, then Warner eats grass and probably coughs up the ball.

I hope we all appreciate th job Timmy did against the pass because, had he not done it, we’d all be pointing that out rather than ignoring it.

This was a team win and the most conplete game I have witnessed, well ever. Can you say SUPERBOWL!

The defining characteristic you’ll notice league wide is that the best offensive lines in the NL aren’t always the lines cluttered with Pro Bowl players, but instead are the lines wth 5 guys that have played together for several years. The Chiefs wre dominant in the mid 1990’s because they had 5 guys that started every game for years and years. The Cardinals, since they’ve been in AZ, have never kept the same line together…hence our problems. I am all for a Left Tackle change…but change much more and we’ll have more problems than anything.

Lets show them our hearts..then show them theirs.

It has been a rocky relation, but games like this remind us of how great Q is and has been for this franshise, a Pro Bowler from his first game with the franshise, he has taken some shots lately, but for people who has followed the Cardinals for 10 or more years, this was a reminder of why he has been arguably the best player that we have drafted since moving to Arizona… GO CARDINALS

But I would add Dockett to the list for CotW. He didn’t have a sack, but he dominated the line of scrimmage. He had a couple of tackles for loss, which was a big part of shutting down Peterson. He also pressured Favre, A LOT, and the double teams on him opened up the line for Campbell and B-Train. But overall a great team effort, I think this game tops the win over Dallas last season as the teams most complete game as of late.