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BY RANDY GARDNER

Same old story, week after week. It almost sounds like a song from the ’60s. I feel like I am living in the ’70s and watching the Football Cardinals falter every week. But the big red never lost 16 straight.

I am to the point where I am almost feeling sorry for the team. There is just nothing that they can do to generate any offensive firepower what so ever, except for  Steven Jackson who had over 100 yards again.  But when you can’t complete passes any further than 5 yards down the field! NFL defenses can stop you in your tracks and this is what is happening week after week.

I don’t think we can blame this on one person anymore as many of us thought about a quarterback change. It’s almost every position.

As we have seen, losing breeds injuries and the Rams are getting their fair share now.

I am still trying to figure out why the Rams traded Will Witherspoon to the Eagles. There isn’t much veteran leadership on this team anyway; he was a mainstay in that defensive core. Just like many others we have traded away,

Look at this past week’ s games and look at what past Rams did for their teams. I don’t want to beat a dead horse but  look at Kurt Warner leading the Cardinals to a huge victory over the Giants., Look at the game  Witherspoon had  on Monday against Redskins. He had an interception, a TD, and a ton of tackles, even Analyst Jon Gruden asked the question, “Why did the Rams trade this guy”. I was thinking the exact same thing as I watched him play.

Quick note here, being a broadcaster myself, I find myself really digging the Jon Gruden as an analyst position. I wasn’t sure at first but his no nonsense style of straight forward tell it like it is football is just what we need these days. He is so passionate about the game and it really shows.

Onto baseball, I would have pretty much bet on Tony LaRussa coming back for another year, but in a million years, I would have never guessed that Mark McGwire would be back in a Cardinals uniform,  more or less, employed by a MLB team after the black eye he gave the game a few years back.

I think he will be an excellent coach though as he holds so many hitting records. He has also been working with hitters anyway over the past couple of years in California.

I heard it best yesterday, when a sports analyst talked about, all that McGwire has to do is come back and say: I’m sorry, I made a mistake, and I only care now about getting the Cards to the World Series and he will be forgiven and a hero once again. You know what, I believe that.

Winning cures everything, haven’t we seen that in the past with players in every sport. I will be sitting and waiting anxiously for the first time McGwire is introduced at a press conference and then introduced as one of the dearly beloved Cardinals

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