Monday Wild-Card Open Discussion

NFL Wild Card - It's Monday night (playoff) football as Arizona (11-6) visits the L.A. Rams (12-5). Use this thread to discuss.
1 Oh my what a miss
ARI has two receivers in same area, usually a problem but both are wide open and behind Ram defense on a long pass and Murray misses them both. No way to know which one he was targeting.
3 Louis Riddick GM?
I heard people float his name but I can't get on board with a guy that screeches about running the ball so often. Immediate turn off.
4 Timeout waste counter:
Rams with the 1st
Result: well not a TD
6 RE: OBJ's dad
May be a legit football scout. Someone should sign him. Ha, ha
7 I think that was incomplete…
I think that was incomplete. I don't think he ever had control. We'll see what the review says.
8 The Rams defense has been…
The Rams defense has been about as dominant as the Bills offense was two nights ago.
18 Uh, not really
They’ve punted once already for each of Josh Allen’s incompletions. And they’ve scored two touchdowns.
9 Do we have contact info for…
Do we have contact info for DIVISION? I'm worried what this game might do to him.
Dumb play by Murray, great play by the Rams D as a whole and very entertaining pick 6.
10 Negative total yardage and a…
Negative total yardage and a defensive score after five drives. That is nuts.
11 Wow, hard to imagine Kyler…
Wow, hard to imagine Kyler having a worse first half than this. Obviously you can't judge a player on one game, but he looks utterly lost out there, like "how is this guy a starter" lost.
38 “Rams are stars and scrubs,”…
“Rams are stars and scrubs,” was always a weird thing to say coming from a guy whose team collapsed without DeAndre Hopkins.
13 Cardinals getting completely…
Cardinals getting completely crushed tonight.
14 Arizona futility record
77 yards in a 2015 playoff game. That will be first barrier to break.
16 Cards offense hasn't looked…
Cards offense hasn't looked right since DeAndre went down.
17 Which sucks somewhat because…
Which sucks somewhat because when it was working it was fun to watch
I get Hopkins is awesome but I've also watched Green Bay go 7-0 without Adams under LaFleur so it shouldn't make a team fall apart the way Arizona has.
21 Time to tune into Peyton/Eli…
Time to tune into Peyton/Eli. Got to be more entertaining than this. AZ no show.
30 You already missed Larry…
You already missed Larry Fitzgerald and The Rock. They are so much better than the regular ESPN team, not that they're great but the ESPN crew is atrocious.
34 Yes, it is time for FO to…
Yes, it is time for FO to have a poll, rate the broadcasters. I hear that Marc Sanchez is atrocious. Since I am in an AFC market, I have yet to experience his broadcasting.
Thank goodness ESPN does not get a SB.
23 Kyler Murray proving he's…
Kyler Murray proving he's not a young Russell Wilson. Kliff Kingsbury playing like former Archie Comic star QB, calling obsolete plays.
24 Now OBJ has more passing…
Now OBJ has more passing yards than Kyler. For that matter only 65 behind Stafford.
27 If there were ever to be a taunting penalty
That might be it, even if he was unaware.
IDK what a defender is supposed to do there with the offensive player lowering his head too...man they got it really rough.
32 Rams still got their starters out there?
Up 23? Surely they're pulling them coming out of the 2 min warning
36 Time for the nitwits to…
Time for the nitwits to admit that Kyler Murray is not the second coming of Russel Wilson, and that Matt Stafford can't succeed without Calvin Johnson.
39 Do people still say that? …
Do people still say that? (About Stafford/Johnson)
His PFF grading got significantly better and DVOA/DYAR also have also been better in most years (assuming the same for his EPA/play, but don’t know where to look that up) since Johnson retired. Not saying the two are related, other than perhaps losing him forced Stafford to work more at the finer points of quarterbacking (especially his mechanics).
Kind of on that subject, I wonder if a lot of the Cardinals offensive scheme relies too much on Murray/Hopkins being better athletes than their opposition, hence their collapse since Hopkins got hurt.
41 DVOA also prefers the Tate…
DVOA also prefers the Tate/Kupp style of 80% successful 10 yards passes versus the Johnson-style 60% successful 20 yard passes.
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