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What's lost in the loss is how awful a coaching job Arians did and how poorly Palmer played. 

Arians called a pass play that preserved an extra 45 seconds which facilitated the Hail Mary.

His defense gave up two Hail Mary passes in the last 45 seconds of a playoff game to force OT. 

His team only got to overtime because of a ricochet catch. 

He allowed a team playing with 5th and 6th string WRs to force overtime in a home playoff game with his team almost completely healthy. 

Fitzgerald bailed him out on a blown coverage off of a scramble. Arians performance has to rank among the worst coaching performances in a win in playoff history. 

Palmer crapped the bed. He did a nice job avoiding a sack, but threw 2 terrible picks and if Shields holds onto the other gift, Palmer is the goat 

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Arians made a couple or three bad calls during the game, but I thought their game plan was rock solid. Their execution was another matter entirely.

The Cards 4th qtr and OT drives really showed who the better team was. They could attack our weaknesses, and show where we are deficient, either in talent or coaching.

Likewise, we did the same to them. The Packers showed the Cards can be beaten, their OL is mediocre, they can tire out on defense, and their DBs are the weak point. 

The Packers are a very tough out. That's how Arians looked so bad.

That's why you see Other coaches in the league give tons of respect to MM & the Packers. They're like cockroaches....tough to kill & they keep showing up.

The more time passes, the more I know the right team won tonight.

We have no shot against Carolina or Seattle minus our top 3 WRs.

Best of luck the rest of the way to AZ.

P.S. I bet AZ in August at 30-1 to win it all

If Arizona and Palmer play like they did against GB there is no way they win next week.   Seattle and Carolina will not miss tackles and drop INTs and blow coverages.  

In fact, AZ hasn't looked good since they walloped GB the last time around. 

Larry Fitzgerald bailed that team out big time but at times that's what great players do. 

I would like to give the Packers some credit in how the Cardinals played. The defense played pretty tough until they could not tackle. Offense held the ball for very long drives that really wore down their D.

That being said, most of the games that I saw of the cards this season, they did not crush teams and they were closer, similar to last nights game.

I need to mention something here....

Arians in his post-game presser on the hail mary, "I thought Calais Campbell was held there."

Gimme a break with that candy-ass statement. The refs didn't call holding all day on EITHER O-Line, & you want them to call it on THAT play??!!?! Eff you dude, MAN UP!

I also like how Arians was "begging for a flag" when he thought their WR's were interfered with, when ours were getting MUGGED with no call.

The refs let them play, and THAT is playoff football. I really enjoyed the consistency that the refs displayed throughout the game. The refs did a good job on both sides. We want to see the game decided on the field & that's what we got. I tip my hat to Clete & the crew on the game last night.

Arians is going to have to coach better to get past the next round. I think either team causes problems for AZ because they both have very mobile QB's

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For those Packer fans who always tell MM to be aggressive.........this is why you don't.  That incomplete pass gave the packers hope.  He runs it there and it's game over.  Just because it's aggressive doesn't make it right.  

Agree Boris.  Pass rushers were getting mugged all day but it was consistent on both sides.  I was pissed at the non-PI call on Janis but on replay, kind of agree that Janis was turning his body that way because the ball was thrown to that side.  Officiating is never perfect but considering what we've seen this year, this is about as good as it gets.  The fact that the refs caught the hands to the face on that Peterson interception was huge b/c the entire broadcast team missed it.  They even rectified the coin toss.......

I don't like Arians. Another guy who's been anointed by the trade press as a genius largely because he spends plenty of time letting them inside his sanctuary of NFL wisdom. 

Those comments show no ****ing class at all. Take your win, be magnanimous, and drive on. What a dick. 

If it wasn't for my disliking Cam and Pete Carroll so much I'd be pulling for the Panthers or Seahawks to really crush them because of that. Haven't observed Ron Rivera enough but he seems to be an old school football guy not unlike Coughlin or McCarthy.

Can only imagine what Arians would've said had his team been on the receiving end of the Fail Mary. Asshole.

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I don't dislike Arians but I heard the post game comments as well and he's the last person that should be pissing and moaning.  If you were paying attention Coach Arians - you will find that GB whipped your asses in the trenches and it had little to do with holding or not holding.  That's what is so frustrating about the loss.  GBs OL and DL played great - much better than I expected. 

If you think about it, the Packers WR's we're actually mugged most of the year. I usually never harp on that schit, but because they faced SO MUCH man coverage DB's quickly figured out you could hold and commit PI left and right and if it's not getting called, they why not keep it up?

Al Harris made his career on doing precisely that. With a healthy Jordy, Monty, Adams, and hopefully a real TE I'll bank man coverage won't last long in 2016. They'll go 2 safety deep because Rodgers will go back to killing defenses in man coverage.

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