Against the Panthers, just about everything went wrong. The Cardinals were tackling well before that, but they could not hold on to the Panthers running backs, and they were not doing a good job containing them when they were stuffed so they could just bounce out to the side and get big runs.

And Warner kept having passes deflected, which was a factor with two of his interceptions, one of them was from Peppers beating the O-Lineman, and the other two were overthrowing receivers which are the only two I would pin on Warner. Warner does seem like he is having a tougher time throwing deep, but he is still amazingly accurate on short and intermediate passes.

With the Pass Rush, any quick defensive end can beat Gandy and Levi, the Cardinals have a lot of the same O-Line problems that the Bears have, but because of Warners immobility he can’t keep plays alive like Cutler can.

As for Beanie, he is running very well, but I think he will keep sharing carries with Hightower, and it looks like the other two running backs [LaRod Stephens-Howling and Jason Wright] are going to get some carries too]. Beanies only problem right now is fumbling, but Hightower has coughed it up too. Beanie is getting used to the offense and as the season goes on he should get the ball more often.

DeAngelo Williams is one of the best running backs at breaking tackles and he’s always given us problems. I wasn’t surprised. He and Stewart are the best duo in the league if you ask me.

Outside pressure is the best. Quick ends have the best success. The best way possible is to rush 4 and drop the rest in coverage. That’s been the most effective against Warner.

Beanie probably won’t get the bulk of carries for quite a while. We’ll have to see him go a couple games without fumbling first. If you have Wells, I’d only start him when we play the crappy teams(Rams, Seahawks, Lions).

The snow in last year’s Patriots game proved to be the most effective. I think this team can handle rain or cold weather just fine. They’ve become a better road team this year and coming off a bad loss, I’d expect them to be fired up.

and still 3 days before the game.

The offense has had a big drop off. Whisenhunt has been conservative and they look out of sync. New defensive coordinator Bill Davis has improved the defense, blitzing more and getting back to basics. Before last week they were looking great.

But if he thinks he is able to play, he will play. I think he will be out there, even if he could make his injury worse.

Looks like he’ll play. He’s a warrior but I’d rather have him sit this week out.

We have not allowed a special teams td yet, and we have held opposing kick returners to 21.4 yards per return and punt returners 11.4 yards per return. Those numbers are also a little skewed because of Houston, they got a lot of those yards we gave up in one game. Take the Houston game out and the kick returns go down to about 19.8 and punt returns go down to 8.09.

Rackers is good at bouncing the kicks to the outside and buying time for the coverage unit. Graham can land a lot of punts in the 20.

because it’s our only hope to score when we can’t do anything in the red zone.

They try to defend the long ball, but they just wind up giving up chunks from short passes like in the game against Houston.

I don’t think that Forte will be able to run against the Cardinals Defensive Line that played well in every game except for the Carolina game. Its a game where Cutler will have to do most of the work.

And I believe him.

He should play but might not return punts.