Unfortunately the principal features of this weekend were three really bad, blowout NFL wild card games. The losers – Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New England – can’t claim to have “gone down valiantly.” They played sloppy, disinterested games, looking like they didn’t belong in the playoffs, and knew it. In a word, they sucked.
The only entertaining game (I didn’t say “good,” did I?) was Arizona and the Cheesers – oh, sorry, - Packers. Kurt Warner had more touchdown passes (5) than incompletions (4). Chris (Beanie) Wells rushed for 91 yards on 14 carries, 6 and a half a pop. Neither team played any defense worthy of the name, but the Cheesers were truly gawd-awful.
In a game record setting for the futility of its defenses, the Cardinals sent the Pack Packing. That ended my hopes the Vikings would get that privilege, but this will have to do. As for the Cards, I can well imagine how many points that defense might give up on the road to New Orleans, having surrendered 45 to the visiting Pack – a team without anything near the Saints’ firepower.
I’ll be cheering on the Cards next week against the Saints. Cardinals at Vikings seems infinitely better than Vikings at Saints. First, there are those ‘Boys, though…
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