- I really hope that the Cardinals, and Warner especially, don’t wait till the second half to get Fitz involved in the game plan. Don’t they remember last January? Double covered or not, just throw the ball up there and let him go get it. He’s un-freaking-stoppable when the balls in the air. The CBs will either have to tackle him before the ball gets to him or he’ll bring it down. Either way we’ll move the ball 40 or 50 yards down field. I’ll also be interested to see how they move Fitz around to see if they can get him isolated on the rookie CB. I’d absolutely love it if the first play of the game was a play action bomb to Fitz. Jump start this offense let the Jags know that we’re not scared of playing on the East Coast anymore.

 - It is all about the trenches, and it’s only right that three of your points had to do with controlling the line of scrimmage. The Jags have always been about ‘grind it out football’ and they’d like nothing more than to turn this into a 17-14 game. We’ve got to shut down their running game and put up some points early. Let’s see how dedicated they are to running the ball when they’re down by 10 or 14. That’s one thing that really benefited the Niners last week because they could be ultra-patient with their running game even though it wasn’t getting them anywhere. We’ve got to jump out, get a lead and then smother them this week. Let Kurt throw 20 or 25 times in the first half then run, run, run in the second half.

 - One other thing that concerns me a bit is David Garrard’s legs. Seems like we’re always susceptible to running QB’s and Garrard has the ability to escape the pocket if we don’t maintain our rushing lanes. Hopefully we won’t see him rush for 50 yards against us.

 - Oh yea and please limit the penalties. Anything over five or six (as I think someone said already this week) is unacceptable. That place won’t be loud so there’s not even the excuse to false start.

I won’t bore everyone with the matchups, except to observe that when you pit the Jaguar passing attack against our pass rush and coverage, a very good Jaguar running attack against a defense that held SF to under 30, a high-powered though underperforming Cardinal passing attack pitted against an average Jaguar pass defense, an iffy though potentially explosive Cardinal run game against a Jag run “D” that held Joseph Addai to under 70 yards and a decent Cardinal special teams unit compared to what looks like a lackluster Jag ST unit, we match up well in every category.

Which means absolutely nothing.

Because the Cardinals proved last week that – unless we clean up our act and avoid penalties, blown coverages, loss of poise and other dumb stuff – we can lose to anyone.

It will all come down to what we have between our ears and between our shoulder blades.