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The Cardinals offensive line has played pretty well the past couple of weeks. And when you consider they went against the likes of Mario Williams and Patrick Kearney, thatÆs something to build on. And build on it, they must. There seems to be a general consensus that the best (only) way to keep Cards QB Kurt Warner from picking the recently exposed New York defensive secondary ...

Wow, is it just me, or did the Cardinals just play their best all-around game since last January in Carolina? And one of their best road games since landing in the desert over 2 decades ago? The Cardinals went 6 straight years leaving the great Northwest with a loss before taking it to the reigning Division Champs in 2008, en route to the Big RedÆs first division title since many ...

Now, before you haters and nay-sayers suggest that the Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals donÆt HAVE five fantastic finishes in their ..ummm, spotty history, let me tell you, as a long suffering fan, how wrong you are. You see, while prior to 2008, the Cardinals havenÆt spent much time being mentioned in the same sentence as æsuccessÆ or æplayoffsÆ ..or (of course) æSuper BowlÆ, any long time fan can tell you that they ...

Ok, so all the hype turned into hyperbole as the Cardinals turn ôOne step forward, two steps backö into an art form in front of the entire nation. The stage was set. Two Hall of Fame quarterbacks from to top teams going head to head in one of the loudest, most boisterous places to play in the National Football League. Two steady defenses trying to contain the air show about ...

Fast forward to October 11. Cardinals fans file into UoP Stadium for a game with the Houston Texans. Not subdued...but without the boisterous, frantic swagger they have had for the past four games played here. Everything looks the same, but it feels different. You enter the seating area and stop, look around, look up and scan the upper deck, look hard along the Club level, and through the lower sections just ...

á Ok, so Warner/Manning has been written about, talked about, examined, dissected, folded, spindled, and mutilated quite a bit (ad nauseum?) this week. So much so that people are already writing their "Too much being made of the QB vs QB" columns and blogs. But it's rare that youÆll see two such high-quality quarterbacks that are so darn equal in every statistical category, on the field together. These two QBÆs have almost mirrored ...

It has become rather common for teams facing the Indianapolis Colts to lean heavy on their running game. The object being, of course, to eat up clock and keep Payton Manning and the Colts high powered offense off the field as much as possible.   What's scary is when you gather your teams brain-trust, spend endless hours plotting, finally adopt that game plan, then run it to near-perfection, ..and still end up ...

He’s So SpecialCardinals defensive end Calais Campbell was announced as this week’s NFC Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance Sunday against the Jaguars in steamy Jacksonville. Campbell (essentially) won the award for his crucial game-changing blocked field goal early in the second quarter, when the game was still close. It was “game changing” in that his block not only prevented the Jags from closing the gap to ...

Things may look grim with a road loss to the Jags You could hear it a thousand times late last Sunday. In locker rooms and on postgame radio talk-shows all across the fruited plains, the number "15" kept popping up. Not so coincidental, it generally comes from locker rooms on the losing end of the scoreboard in their season opener. It especially happens in locker rooms that a favored ...

As the Arizona Cardinals head into Jacksonville for week two, there are a few items on both sides of the ball that will need to be addressed if they plan on playing deep into January.   Running the ball Sure, it was nice to see second-year RB Tim Hightower grab 12 receptions for 121 yards last week. It reminded many of us of Larry Centers, the former Cards fan favorite that set running-back reception ...