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[StillMill Profile]

The Keys to Beating the Cards (Part 4 of a pre-game series) has been posted by Still Mill at Stillers.com.

[Teegre Profile]

Mills,
Overall, I agree with 97.6% of what you have written...
...but, please allow me to insert some good-hearted optimism.

1) "the Stillers throw to their other TEs about once every 6 weeks."
Well, by my record, is has been six weeks since Matt Spaeth's last reception.

Really though, I expect Heath to have a big day. I said so (somewhere on here) before the San Diego game...
...and I feel that same feeling in my gut right now about this game: Miller adds one extra first-down & a TD to the scoreboard (adds = more than anyone is expecting).

2) "spare me any blather about Fat Casey Hampton “collapsing the pocket” and “pushing in the middle”. Hampton does this……about once every 11 weeks."
Again, I believe it has been about 11 weeks since Casey did anything of note.

Really though, I think that you are dead-on: the rush up the middle is more important than the rush from the outside.
Warner likes to step up...exactly!!!

Do not get me wrong: Woodley thumping Warner from the outside is not a bad thing, because his pressure will help to soften up the middle (i.e. the RG helping the RT (to stop Woodley) means that the hole between OC & RG will be a little wider for Smith/Timmons to dart through). But, again, the middle is where the pressure will have its biggest impact on Warner.
Stunts by Harrison & Keisel are the key.

3) On a down-note: do not expect Mewelde Moore to see more action this week. Why? Because that would make sense.
I am not trying to burst your bubble...just merely making sure that you do not have false hopes.

3-a) On a lighter note, you should expect FWP to gain a ton of yards...my guess: 146 & 3 TDs...and an MVP.

[rifraff Profile]

Watching the 07 Ariz game with Polamalu was out the whole 2nd half. A classic how many times can the offense shot itself in the foot day. 3rd and +20 was the norm. It looks like our no huddle offense did real well. If the cards our stopping the run we should go to it often. On defense ya, rush Warner up the middle, he aint going nowhere and hands up on the outside rushers.

Whats the over/under on The Colon false starts?

[Hagerstown Steelman Profile]

I am not an Arians fan by any stretch and most of the time his game plans leave a lot to be desired.

However, when you consider that in both the SD and Baltimore games we just missed 2-3 long pass plays in each game we could have scored 10-14 more points in each game(easily)

Against Baltimore if Sweed makes the catch and Tonio holds onto the one at the goal like our offense would have scored 30 pts on the Ravens. Plus we could have had another TD against SD. Coming into this game our O if flying under the radar and has weapons and more importantly weapons that are healthy (other than Hines).

The AZ D has given up about 5yds per rush in the playoffs and over 460 yds total offense to Philly.

Nothing is guaranteed. However, I think there is a high liklihood we hang 35 pts on them (from our offense).

In SB XL our starting WR's were (Ward, El, C. Wilson) today we have (Ward, Tonio, Nate). We are much better today plus Miller has 3 more yrs of exp. Granted the line is the wild card here but I still say we can score a lot on this Defense.

[mike12-88 Profile]

Why no winner & score prediction in the synopsis?