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2010 NFL Season - Wild Card - Packers at Cardinals

The final game of the Wild Card Weekend is another Week 17 rematch as the Green Bay Packers travel back to Arizona to face Kurt Warner and the Cardinals.

I’m pretty sure that Warner plays in this game even though it appears that Anquan Boldin probably will not. Good thing they still have Larry Fitzgerald and Steve Breaston. The passing game also uses Tim Hightower who caught 63 passes this year. What they don’t have is a solid tight end.

That’s one of the big differences in this game. The Green Bay Packers have Jermichael Finley. Otherwise, the teams match up pretty well against each other since Boldin will not be in.

One of the other big differences in this game is playoff experience. The Cardinals went through this last year. The Packers have not.

I believe that the playoff experience that the Cardinals have will make the real difference in this game. The Cardinals came out of nowhere last year to make it within a minute of winning the Super Bowl. They will not be a surprise to anyone in the playoffs this year, but they are definitely a not a team that some other competitors (ahem, Vikings. I’m talking to you) will not want to play next week.

If the Cardinals defense can turn it up a notch like they did last year in their playoff run, they will be very hard to beat. Especially at home. The pass rush will be key, and the Packers give up a lot of sacks.

Of course, it would help if the Cardinals fans actually showed up to the game. There was a report earlier in the week that this game could be blacked out. It won’t. Apparently, there were enough Packers fans that bought tickets in order to keep that from happening because the Cardinals fans aren’t.

Really? A playoff game being blacked out? Has that ever happened?

In some regards, I’m glad the Cardinals didn’t win the Super Bowl last year. If the fans there are that frickin’ fickle and devoid of passion, then they don’t deserve to have a Super Bowl win.

Despite all of that…

Cardinals win. Warner praises the almighty. We get more glamour footage of his wife post-makeover which makes her look less like a 70 year old woman and more like what you would expect an NFL quarterback’s wife to look like.

Giselle, anyone?

Tags: Anquan Boldin, Arizona Cardinals, Green Bay Packers, Jermichael Finley, Kurt Warner, Larry Fitzgerald, NFC, NFL, Steve Breaston

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