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Kolb’s Revenge: Cardinals take down Eagles

Mike Ferrara — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:57:46 +0000

The start of the NFL season has been full of surprises, injuries, and twists in which Week 3 continued the trend. One of the biggest surprises is the NFC West division leading Arizona Cardinals, who are currently undefeated.

The Cardinals went up against the Philadelphia Eagles, who were also undefeated before yesterdays match up. For Cardinals quarterback, Kevin Kolb, this game was personal. The Eagles are Kolb’s former team, who were very high on him in seasons past. When Michael Vick came back, Kolb was pushed to the side and eventually traded to the Cardinals after Vick stole the starting job from him.

As the game rolled around, The Cardinals offense was on point as Kolb threw for 222 yards and two touchdowns. Larry Fitzgerald finally came alive this week and caught nine passes for 114 yards and a touchdown while becoming the youngest player in NFL history to reach 700 receptions.

The defense absolutely crushed Michael Vick, sacking him 5 times and causing him to fumble twice. In fact, James Sanders returned one of the fumbles for a 93 yard touchdown. The Cardinals are off to their best start since 1973.

Vick entered the game second in the NFL with 688 yards. He finished the day with 217 yards on 17-of-37 passing.

The Eagles performance was terrible all around. They turned the ball over 3 times yesterday and their solid offense was held to only two field goals in a 27-6 lose. They have a total of 12 turnovers already in this young season.

Hopefully the Eagles can look back at this game as just a bad loss against a shockingly good Cardinals team.

The Cowboys, The Jets, and The Fallacy of the “Favorable” Schedule

Joe Tufaro — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:42:52 +0000

In the NFL there is a saying that holds true every year….It’s not who you play, it’s when you play them. The Giants for instance had to play the Redskins at full strength on opening day in their building. The Giants also play teams on the road, after bye weeks, in prime time. These are factors that many fans don’t take into account when originally viewing the schedule. Now Giants fans and management usually don’t discuss their upcoming games more than a week in advance, but talk show hosts and ESPN do it relentlessly. Let’s take a look at two examples.

The Cowboys are being touted as having a “favorable schedule” for the remaining 6 games: (more…)

Big Blue Topples Angry Birds In Another Fairy Tale Win!!

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:30:25 +0000

For the second consecutive meeting at the University Of Phoenix Stadium, the New York Giants defeated the Arizona Cardinals. Prior to these last two games, the Cardinals had a 7 game winning streak, in Arizona, against the Giants. While the numbers were high for Larry Fitzgerald and company, the points on the scoreboard were not high enough.
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