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Originally Posted by Mattyk72
So I guess he's getting the Patrick Ramsey treatment??
At this point in Rattay's career if he was such a hidden gem I find it hard to believe that nobody would have picked up on it.
He is what he is. A career backup who's had some decent games here and there (but so has a guy like Joey Harrington), but he's certainly nothing to write home about especially in the circumstance that he's in right now being forced into starting duty after a week with the team.
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But it looks like Arizona DID pick up on it, to turn your own arugment against you.
Why is this the
Ramsey treatment? Ramsey wasn't the only player to ever get the short end of the stick, in fact I thought he got a relatively decent shot to show improvement here.
It's my hope that with a top 5 passing defense we can shut the Cards down, and should logically be able to.
But this year we've played a 38 year old Trent Green, McNabb, Eli, Kitna, and a 38 year old Favre.
Rattay is certainly better than elderly Green and Kitna, and based on what McNabb has done this year...him too. The only QB we struggled with was Eli, so Rattay's probably not good enough to toss 350 and 6 TD's on us, but its a good signing by Arizona, and it is another challenge for us.
We have shut down good QBs this year, but this arugment that we should have
no problem whatsoever this week is a little bit blind faith and very much uninformed. At the end of the day, we are still 4th in total defense, but are you expecting this to be a season in which we set many defensive records. Eli showed that we could be had by a QB who was not elite...so I would ask us not to get too overconfident, even if there is good reason to feel safe.