Funny people calling this classless while last week everyone love what Fisher did with the captains saying it was ballsy and loved the feistiness of Fisher.
Generalizations usually make one look foolish while pissing people off at the same time. See the bolded part of your post? That's an example. Not everyone, including myself, loved or even agreed with what Fisher did.
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Here are some comments on this topic from the folks over at azcardinals.com:
http://forums.azcardinals.com/showthread.php?68992-BA-Puts-the-Smackdown-on-the-Rams
BA Puts the Smackdown on the Rams
Incredible stuff from BA. And its abso-stinking lutely deserved. What a ridiculous team the rams are. Bragging about their first round picks over RG3, the hiring of a controversial DC and all the while being perennially dirty. Ask anyone in the NFL to verify the last point.
Go Cardinals. Always, always put on a show. Easily the best Thursday night game this year. Way to man up team.
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It definitely was nerve-wrecking but **** skippy, Red Sea D hold them back from scoring a touchdown.
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He pretty much had to.. The defense doesnt need an ego boost but Arians and that speech had to hype them up even more. Arians knows that the only way this team keeps winning is through the defense.
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And deserved for knocking out 2 of our QBs. Have a nice offseason Lambs!!
PS: I thought that was hilarious sending out all the draft picks as captains against the 'Skins. RGIII is GARBAGE!!
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Hmm, not sure I agree with what he has done here.
I agree the Rams deserve it after that player predicted the shutout, but that is just a player talking rather than the coach.
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He was praising his defense the only way B.A. knows how.. He's basically saying " Look we been under dogs the whole season and here we are 11-3 and supposed to lose to some 8-8 team from St. Louis!"
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Yeah I get it. . I guess its the "always 8-8" thing it sounds like trash talking against the whole organization.
Its fine, but I just dont want him to turn into Rex Ryan.
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Totally agree with you. However, in this case this is more a reactive couple of statements than just talking trash IMO.
Basically, He's proud, pissed off and feels validated in that this team deserves everything they have so far. BA is so similar to the Cards really. Always under the radar, perennially irrelevant but for no good reason whatsoever.
Plus, the Rams were talking mad **** last week, hired a coach who is the definition of dirty, is consistently a dirty team in general and had a losing record coming into the game!!!
Sometimes its deserved is all I am saying.
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I think BA might have been echoing sentimernts felt throughout the league based upon Fisher's classless shenanigans. The coin toss thing in Washington really made no sense and was very tool-ish...old school coaches like BA hate that stuff.
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All the Ram supporters are PO'd about BA's statement. Calling BA classless and all other things derogatory. If that's the way they want to take it let them! They spouted trash all week long and had to eat their own filthy words, that's what you get when you Are classless and clueless.
I think the NFL needs to review the play when Drew went down. Especially the Ogletree (52) and Sims (97) pile on. It was these two player's late hits that caused the injury. Aaron Donald already had Drew going down but Ogletree twisted Drew's midsection while Sims Pancaked Drew's legs. And Sims had enough time to lay off.
Makes me wonder if this is some of the "coaching" the rams D gets? I hope not, but it's starting to get strange that the Rams consistently knock our QB's out, while most other teams do not (Julius Thomas chop on CC being another team that plays to seemingly injure on purpose). Maybe I'm just seeing things too. Just doesn't sit well when I see the replay.
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Wow the Ram fans have responded to the Post Game played by our beloved Bruce Arians. Lots and lots of name calling, I'm talking they are making an art form out of it, people wishing us bad things, rivalry talk, vendetta stuff, really really unhappy people over on that forum.
I think BA's message was more of a message to the League, the writers, and basically everybody. We had a better record, both teams were playing with back up QBs, and both team have a top notch defense.... yet we were considered underdogs once again. Not only did we win, we rode out of town on a spare quarterback.
I pick up what BA is putting down, he's got both arms extended out to east and west, he's got that middle finger up, he's spinning in circles while making his way through the battle, yup, it's the matrix bird spin, and it's taking everybody out!
