Larry Fitzgerald rips pass away from Cowboys DB for first down

Arizona Cardinals are a bad football team right now. Bottom 1/3rd of the league.

Except for some players, namely: Fitz, Reddick, Tyvon Branch, Bethea, Chandler Jones, Patrick Peterson (I'm thinking I'm leaving someone people), this was about as pathetic a performance as I've seen by the Cardinals. Collectively the Cardinals allowed a horrible football team to beat them who walked into the game ready to be blown out, just like they had in Denver the week before.

Dawson: His miss of a complete chippy field goal, turned around the entire game. Dawson talked as if he was Mr. Clutch, as did BA/ Keim, but he's been anything but. Reality is, he's choked and he's been stealing money. He single handledly killed the psyche of the team with that miss, which is made all the worse because he never misses in practice. He has gagged is brains out already on several occasions this year, in some ways worse than I remember Catman ever doing, and Catman was a young player. This is a vet with tons of experience: I would cut him tonight.

Lee: The only reason I wouldn't cut him tonight, is because he hasn't been here long enough, and he his last punt was 51 yards and not returned. Except for that last punt, he has certainly underperformed and been nothing like Kiem/ BA advertised him to be.

Cardinals defensive line collectively: They were largely missing in action, as they have been most of the season. On the goal line, Peters and Rucker are being driven out of position with such dominance by opposing lineman, it looks like they were on skates.

Honey Badger: Time to face the fact that the HB is at least a step slower, and no longer is the willing and capable tackler he had been before this last injury. If he is actually 100% healthy, then his career is over. He's so small, it was almost inevitable that his body would not hold up when playing in a game where other players are so much bigger and stronger. Teams have been going after him on crossing patterns since Game 1 and abusing him regularly, especially at crunch time. 80% of the Cowboys big plays in the passing game came against him. In the running game, he was consistently taking bad angles, never touching the back. When he did get in position, he was bouncing off players instead of tackling them. Consistently I see opponents beating him across the field getting wide open, with HB several steps behind, unable to show the makeup speed he displayed in previous years when he always was able to catch up.

Jared Veldheer: Looks like a player who wants to get cut, and doesn't really want to be out on the field. He wanted nothing to do with No. 90 of Dallas, to the point that on several plays it looked like he was purposefully helping out Boehm on passing plays when Boehm didn't need it, leaving Gresham to block 90 on his own, because he was tired of being embarassed. No 90 took Veldheer's manhood tonight, and likely will be going over his house later tonight to claim his wife, and perhaps Veldheer himself when he's finished with his wife.

A. Q. Shipley: Anytime an opponent gets a defensive lineman singled up on Shipley, they simply abuse him, overpower him, run him over and around him with ease. Getting rid of Cole Toner looks like a really stupid move right now. Shipley is servicable when he plays with 4 other really solid, strong, capable offensive lineman. But anytime he plays with backups where he's going to get isolated because they have to help out the new players, it is disaster waiting to happen.

Karlos Dansby: While he gets his stats, he looks 2 steps slower than the player he was when he was last here. When I look at the difference in speed between him and Reddick, it looks like Karlos next move needs to be into retirement. When he was last here he would consistently always show up near the ball on running and passing plays. Right now I only see him making plays when he's completely unblocked. His failure not to get the sack when he had a free run at Prescott was incredibly costly. Can't get Buchanon back on the field too soon. Only a matter of time until he leaves the field with an injury. Prescott when scrambling, consistently took advantage of Dansby's lack of foot speed, as did Elliot when he got into the secondary.

Steve Keim: Looks like BA made a serious miscalculation when he signed a lot of old players who are now hurt.

Collectively this performance made me think the Cardinals players were more focused on protesting Trump, in making a political statement, than they were in playing the game. Collectively they stole money from every Cardinals fan. Except for the people I excluded, the rest of the Cardinals players should pool their entire salaries and use it to send refunds for their performance to the season ticket holders.

Cards are going to struggle to be anywhere near a .500 team. Sam Darnold looks like a once every 25 year QB, similar to Andrew Luck. Time to start thinking about going into the tank so they can grab him. Fans can thank Fitz, let Carson stop having to get beat up every game, and play for the future.

Cards lucky to not be 0-3 at this point.