But this paragraph and a half is about as well written as any Cardinals-defense that you will find…..

one of the things that really bothered me about Arizona’s postseason run last year were all the people who happily declared the Cardinals’ run a product of extreme good fortune. They were lucky to play in the NFC West. They were lucky Seattle was injured all last year. They were lucky to play a rookie QB in the Wild Card round. They were lucky to be in Carolina the night Jake Delhomme’s arm died. They were lucky to draw a home game for the NFC title game. They were lucky lucky lucky.

The single worst perpetrator of all this was a guy I admire, Aaron Schatz over at Football Outsiders. Schatz went so far as to say he wasn’t looking forward to the Steelers-Cardinals Super Bowl last February because, numerically, he found both teams (but Arizona in particular) so incredibly lackluster. This is the sort of thing that causes the Buzz Bissingers of the world to give statheads a bad name. Schatz was upset the Eagles lost the NFC title game because they failed to prove his metrics correct. But the reason you look to compile interesting stats isn’t so that your predictions come true and you look like some big swinging dick. That’s Mariotti shit. The point is to explore new ways of seeing the game so that you enjoy it more. Yes, the Cardinals were lucky to get to the Super Bowl last year. Know who else was lucky? EVERY SUPER BOWL ENTRANT IN HISTORY. Flukiness is an inherent part of success.

Of course his next four points go off the deep end and make you question the overall validity but take the above selection for what it is.

Great find KDean.

it’s Big Daddy Drew(from Kissing Suzy Kolber) writing this article, so irreverence is his forté. That, and the fact that they try way too hard to be funny most days since Leitch left. Speaking of Leitch; if any of you are fans of the baseball Cardinals(and why wouldn’t you be?), check out his unique way of counting down the Redbirds’ magic number over at Viva El Birdos(new window).