06-13-2017, 09:35 PM
(06-13-2017, 08:48 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Meh, Palmer is no HOFer but he managed to win a number of big games in the past few years. He has a winning record against the Seahawks including winning all 3 games against them in Seattle (at least one of those games was pretty ugly, though). I had to double-check, but yea the guy is 3-0 in Seattle as a Cardinal during what was (doesn't seem to be anymore) the timeframe where hardly anyone could win there. That seems big-ish. Clearly we aren't talking SBs, but that would be like Dalton winning 3 in a row in Pittsburgh.
Also, it wasn't pretty and I'm sure we can look and see a bunch of "shoulda been INTs" but the Cardinals did manage to beat the ultra-golden QB that is Aaron Rodgers in a playoff game too. Palmer managed to win more big games and more prime-time games when he got away from Marvin Lewis. I honestly think Dalton will do the same.
But back to the original topic, Palmer has been a starting QB for over a decade and that should be enough to hang his hat upon. He's no HOF-er, but his late career resurgence and our own inability to stop choking since he left certainly reinforces my "meh factor" for Marvin and Mike.
Agreed 100%. A part of me believes Carson would be still here had we parted ways with Lewis after the 2010 season. Now if that would be for better or for worse, I don't know. But if I had to guess, I'd say we'd at the very least have quite a few playoff wins by now. That's not a knock on Dalton, that's more of the team benefitting from a semi-decent coach (I'm assuming it would have been Zimmer).
I only hope we part way with Lewis before we see the end of the Dalton era.
