Forget Sundays win although it is a preview of what is to come next week.
I am not saying it will be THAT easy but the Packers are a better football team.
The Cards played four games against teams with a winning record all year and three games against teams going to the playoffs.
The Packers played seven games against teams ultimately finishing with a winning record and six games against teams in the playoffs (most in the NFC).
Maybe we should have finished 8-8. The Cards played four games against teams that finished .500 and lost all four times.
You would think the Cards would stack statistics up given the above yet the Packers clearly stand tall in the numbers game. Especially defensively where we finished 1st against the run and 5th against the pass the Cards ended up 17th and 23rd respectively.
Offensively they don't run it well (28th) and with the talent and multiple schemes we run this is a nightmare matchup for the Cardinals passing game.
On D I sense bringing the heat. The Cards realize their only chance is to get to Rodgers and my guess is McCarthy is planning schemes to pick up their blitz packages.
I look for Finley and our screens to put up big numbers.
When they are on Offense I expect the Cards to go short often and HOPE that our pass rush disrupts Warner enough that they cannot affectively go downfield consistantly.
If our D requires the Cards to chip away and earn every score I see no way of them keeping up with us.
"The train is leaving the station."