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The Cardinals grip on the season is officially as good as Kurt Warner’s grip on the ball… slipping.

After starting 2-0 for the first time in 17 years, the Cardinals decided to do something they have grown very accustomed to, lose back to back games. Just like in 1989 and 1991, the two other times they started 2-0 in Arizona, the Cardinals have found a way to fall to 2-2.

Any good will head coach Ken Whisenhunt had built up with the team’s fast start is now gone. No matter how far everyone thought this team had come, Sunday proved that they are still “the same old Cardinals”.

Cardinal fans who watched the game and specifically the second quarter on Sunday, couldn’t help but have flashbacks to days gone by. At times, Kurt Warner looked Tom Tupa-esque, the defense looked like something from the Dave McGinnis error era, and the end of the game looked like something straight out of Jerry Maguire. But just how bad was it?

The 34 points given up by the Cardinals in the second quarter were the most points surrendered in a single quarter in Arizona Cardinal history. The previous high was 24 points given up twice before, in 1990 at Buffalo and most recently in 2005 at Houston. The second quarter on Sunday was the worst in Arizona Cardinal history by 10 points, in case you couldn’t do the math.

If 34 points in one quarter wasn’t bad enough, the 56 points scored by the Jets were the most given up in a game by the Cardinals since moving to Arizona. The previous high was 50 points scored by the San Francisco 49ers in 2003.

The 7 turnovers by the Cardinals were more than 3 times as many as they had committed through the first three games.

Brett Favre had a career-high six touchdown passes, one short of the NFL record. By the way, Favre has thrown more touchdown passes than any quarterback in NFL history.

To top it off, the choice to run any play following the horrific hit sustained by Anquan Boldin has to be one of the worst coaching decisions in Cardinals history. What were Whisenhunt and his staff trying to prove?

Taking a knee down 21 points with 27 seconds to go would have been the appropriate course of action. Instead of heading to the locker room to check on an injured teammate, the Cardinals’ coaching staff made themselves look classless by throwing the ball. Even the New York Jets fans, not exactly the classiest bunch in America, knew that running any play let alone a passing play was in poor taste and promptly booed. It was only fitting that the shameful attempt at a meaningless last second touchdown resulted in the 7th turnover of the worst executed game in recent memory.

With games against the 4-0 Buffalo Bills and the 3-1 Dallas Cowboys up next for the Cardinals things aren’t getting any easier. If the Cards can’t pull it together after Sunday’s embarrassment, the season and Kurt Warner’s job may have completely slipped away.

Like everyone has been saying, these may not be the “same old Cardinals”. Based on yesterday’s performance they may very well be worse.

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