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Predictions for Sunday....

Zod

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My Predictions:

Stewart and Williams: 150 yds combined and a touchdown

Cam: 140 Passing Yards, 1 passing TD 2 INT's, 8 Rushes, 40 yards

Olsen with the TD catch and leads the team in receptions with 5

Mare 2-2 on field goals

Total offensive point production: 20 pts

Defensively we will give up a big play to Fitzgerald on a blitz that is picked up. I expect Fitz to put up over 100 yds and a score. Not a blockbuster day like some are predicting, but he will have a good game. Arizona will combine for 150+ on the ground with two rushing TD's and they will add in a field goal. We will force two turnovers (fumble and an INT by Thomas Davis):

Total offensive production for the cards: 24 pts

Not a bad first showing for Cam and the defense shows the weakness in the middle.

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Let's consider some facts:

Panthers beat the Cardinals last year. In that game, the Panthers were without DeAngelo Williams, Thomas Davis, Jeff Otah and Chris Gamble. Plus Jimmy Clausen was the starter. On Sunday, all those guys should play and we will have Cam Newton at QB with two great new toys in Schockey and Olsen.

Jim Skelton was the starter for Arizona and he has been replaced by Kolb who is an obvious upgrade. However, the Cardinals have lost their second best WR in Breaston along with their leading running back in Tim Hightower and have replaced him with a guy that average 3.4 yards per carry last year. They also lost their best CB and have replaced him with a rookie. Two of the Cardinals biggest additions this year were actually Panthers cast-offs in Marshall and King who the Panthers did not want to resign.

Last year, the Cardinals were last in rushing and in the bottom three in opponent rushing yards allowed. Plus they were in the bottom third in opponent passing yards allowed.

With that being said. Here are my predictions:

Cam Newton - 12-21 for 176 yards, 1 TD, 1 Int and 1 Rushing TD (56 rushing yards)

Steve Smith - 5 catches for 73 yards, 1 TD

Greg Olsen - 6 Catches for 68 yards

DeAngelo Williams - 125 Yards, 1TD

Final Score - 27 - 13 Panthers

Not sure how Cardinals can be favorites in this game.

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Let's consider some facts:

Panthers beat the Cardinals last year. In that game, the Panthers were without DeAngelo Williams, Thomas Davis, Jeff Otah and Chris Gamble. Plus Jimmy Clausen was the starter. On Sunday, all those guys should play and we will have Cam Newton at QB with two great new toys in Schockey and Olsen.

Jim Skelton was the starter for Arizona and he has been replaced by Kolb who is an obvious upgrade. However, the Cardinals have lost their second best WR in Breaston along with their leading running back in Tim Hightower and have replaced him with a guy that average 3.4 yards per carry last year. They also lost their best CB and have replaced him with a rookie. Two of the Cardinals biggest additions this year were actually Panthers cast-offs in Marshall and King who the Panthers did not want to resign.

Last year, the Cardinals were last in rushing and in the bottom three in opponent rushing yards allowed. Plus they were in the bottom third in opponent passing yards allowed.

With that being said. Here are my predictions:

Cam Newton - 12-21 for 176 yards, 1 TD, 1 Int and 1 Rushing TD (56 rushing yards)

Steve Smith - 5 catches for 73 yards, 1 TD

Greg Olsen - 6 Catches for 68 yards

DeAngelo Williams - 125 Yards, 1TD

Final Score - 27 - 13 Panthers

Not sure how Cardinals can be favorites in this game.

B/c they weren't asked install an offense and defense in record time.....systems already in place. Kind of a big deal.

plus, our DL will likely be worse than last year which makes our entire D worse in every aspect.

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B/c they weren't asked install an offense and defense in record time.....systems already in place. Kind of a big deal.

plus, our DL will likely be worse than last year which makes our entire D worse in every aspect.

It is also a new system to Kolb. One that he even had less time to learn than Cam Newton because he didn't have a playbook up until he was traded last month.

Somehow I forgot how great our DL was last year. I mean Brayton, Ed Johnson and Nick Hayden were unbelievable last year. They could never be replaced.

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With that being said. Here are my predictions:

Cam Newton - 12-21 for 176 yards, 1 TD, 1 Int and 1 Rushing TD (56 rushing yards)

Steve Smith - 5 catches for 73 yards, 1 TD

Greg Olsen - 6 Catches for 68 yards

DeAngelo Williams - 125 Yards, 1TD

Final Score - 27 - 13 Panthers

Not sure how Cardinals can be favorites in this game.

Who catches the last ball for 32 yards?

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It is also a new system to Kolb. One that he even had less time to learn than Cam Newton because he didn't have a playbook up until he was traded last month.

Somehow I forgot how great our DL was last year. I mean Brayton, Ed Johnson and Nick Hayden were unbelievable last year. They could never be replaced.

Kolb is one part of the offense. Cam isn't the only person in Carolina asked to learn the new offense in record time.....everyone is being asked to do that. Ryan Kalil our Pro Bowler has admitted to messing up his coverage calls in preseason......that is something established offenses don't have to worry about. Kalil would not have to worry about that in an established offense....it would be 2nd nature for him. Much bigger handicap than just Cam having to learn it in record time......our entire team was asked to do that.

DL sucked last year overall. Probably will be worse early this year than we were last year. You do see THAT as a problem?

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Who catches the last ball for 32 yards?

Either Schockey or one of the RBs on a screen. You know since Cam doesn't like throwing to his other WRs.

Plus a couple of those completions to Olsen and Smith can easily come from Armanti passes.

The math adds up to there being 35 yards remaining between Olsen and Smith and my total for Cam. But good job trying to be a smartass.

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Kolb is one part of the offense. Cam isn't the only person in Carolina asked to learn the new offense in record time.....everyone is being asked to do that. Ryan Kalil our Pro Bowler has admitted to messing up his coverage calls in preseason......that is something established offenses don't have to worry about. Kalil would not have to worry about that in an established offense....it would be 2nd nature for him. Much bigger handicap than just Cam having to learn it in record time......our entire team was asked to do that.

DL sucked last year overall. Probably will be worse early this year than we were last year. You do see THAT as a problem?

Don't disagree with you when it comes to the whole team having to learn a new offense, all I'm saying is that the guy playing the most important position for the Cardinals has had less time to prepare than everyone else. That will have an impact.

Even if our DL is worse this year (debateable), we are getting back 2 impact players in Gamble in Davis who are big upgrades over what we had last year against the Cardinals.

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