One Last Ride

[*Go Cards*]

(01-25-2016, 04:00 AM)Nately120 Wrote: I'll defend it by saying Carson was a 6th round pick turned into borderline MVP who has helped make the Cardinals relevant again and convinced Larry Fitzgerald to stick around and (likely) retire as a Cardinal.

With that being said, the guy stunk out loud tonight.  I'm sure Cardinals fans are already dying to trade 15 draft picks to the Browns so they can draft _______ to replace him.  Meh, their other options were to draft Geno Smith or something, so what can ya do?

They went 13-3 and made it to the NFC Championship game due to him being pretty good this year, so I'm not too terribly surprised they couldn't get past a 15-1 team to make it to the Super Bowl.  Honestly, everyone who KNEW Palmer was going to implode tonight also KNEW the Cardinals were never going to crack 8 wins with him, KNEW he'd never top an 85 passer rating, KNEW he'd never throw less than 20 INTs in a season, and KNEW he'd never win a playoff game.

So in summation, Carson isn't great, but he helped make the Cardinals a fairly relevant team.  And seeing as we all KNEW Super Bowl 50 was going to be the Seahawks and the Colts I would say some surprises are nice.  Plus, Bengals fans can act all smug that he lost!  But hey, the Cardinals were 5-11 when he and BA showed up and they won 10, 11, and 13 games so I guess they resurrected the franchise like Marvin and Dalton and blah blah blah so on and so forth.

Carson had a good year.

Did not turn team around and make the Cardinals relevant again though.

Were they not like 10-6 the year before Carson's arrival in Bruce Arians first season as coach with one of the very best defenses in the NFL doubling their win total from the previous season ?

Should have been in playoffs that year too. But a very great Seattle team and a aging very good 49ers team happened to be in the same division. it was not rocket science to predict their rise. 

Right place, right time Carson was because this team was already rock solid in their prime and ready to make a run. 

Carson was an upgrade at QB and that was what was required. Maybe next year, but Palmers windows of opportunity are shrinking.