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I don't care what kind of rationalizations some of you will use, but the Cards are for real. Very well balanced team. IMO the Hawks and the Cards are both better than the undefeated Panthers.

RiverDog wrote:I don't care what kind of rationalizations some of you will use, but the Cards are for real. Very well balanced team. IMO the Hawks and the Cards are both better than the undefeated Panthers.

They do look good tonight. Granted the Eagles aren't great, but the Cards are definitely legit. Interesting to see if the knee injury to they back is serious.

I like the Hawks chances against the Cards or the Panthers.

I agree River, the Panthers are beatable; you scheme for Newton, put a spy just for him, shutdown Olsen, single cover the wide outs with our guys, I think they are very beatable. The Cards? No way, too many weapons, and CP is just playing lights out.

Very Unlikely we can catch the Cards for the division.

Best Scenario if we can't win the division?

Win our game against the Rams Next week and hope the Vikings lose.

Then we can use the final Cards game as a Bye week and give the major players most of if not all of the Cards game off - The Hawks will need that rest to gear up for what would have to be a 3 week in a row road trip to very good teams home stadiums in order to make the Superbowl.

Vikings host the Giants, then got to GB for finale.
It's possible for G-men to go in there and win, but still sketchy.

We just have to take care of our business. Minny and GB will have concluded by the time we kickoff in AZ, so we'll know what we're up against by then. Arians is also the type of guy who may go all out regardless, and so could Pete. I have a hunch it will come down to us being forced to play all starters for a full game.

The odd thing is that it is very possible that our season finale with them might be completely meaningless for both teams...AZ could be locked into the 2nd seed, we could be locked into the 5th seed.

And of course, I have tickets to that season finale.

Palmer walking off had to have a few hearts missing a beat or two down in AZ.

Doesnt look like anything that will keep him off the field very long.

The Cards are good. I believe Palmer should be the league MVP. He is playing out of his mind right now. He is a perfect fit for Arians O. Their D is good, but a bit over rated, IMO. They gamble a ton on D and it works well for them, but anytime you gamble like that you leave yourself open to get beat. The problem is their O is dang near unstoppable right now. In the NFC I think it's the Cards, Panthers, and us at the top. Speaking of the Panthers they are for real too. Cam is playing great, delivering the ball on-time and accurate, two things he really struggled with in the past. I still think we can beat anybody anywhere but we really dug ourselves a hole in the first half of the season and are paying the price for it this post season. What the heck lets add to RW's lore. Win a SB from the Wild Card!

Eh, I don't know. Are they the team that almost lost to the Ravens, Minnesota etc, or are they the team that just rolled Philly? They can look amazing one week, and then have to get lucky to beat the dregs of the NFL like San Fran with yo Gabba Gabbert ( who got rolled by these same Browns)...

They "could" win it All. Or get unceremoniously trounced in their first game in the post season...

Arizona is overrated. They will not win it all, I think they make a hasty exit out of the first round.

EmeraldBullet wrote:Arizona is overrated. They will not win it all, I think they make a hasty exit out of the first round.

A beer says that unless that first round opponent is us that they win their first playoff game.

AZ will likely be hosting Green Bay, a rerun of this coming weekend. Its hardly a sure thing they are going to win that
.At any rate Seattle in its current configuration wins 8 of 10 vs AZ.

Not worried.