They have a dynamic playmaker in rookie running back David Johnson and have seen eight different players score touchdowns. “Mike will help your team“.
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Those items are headed for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. All four teams in the division played road games in Week 2, and only Arizona won. Oh, and that doesn’t include his impressive 108-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to start last week’s game against the Bears.
The former UNI Panther became the first rookie in league history to tally a rushing, receiving and kick-off return touchdown just two games into an NFL career. “The kick return team was giving me good holes to read and that’s all I had to do, read where I had to run. Man, it’s remarkable. It’s an wonderful feeling”.
Last year’s starting right tackle was suspended for the first two games of the season for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy following an arrest for driving under the influence in January.
“Yeah, it could be junior high, I don’t care”, he said. “But I’m definitely glad they gave me the opportunity to do that”. I was a small-school guy.
“Yeah, scoring three touchdowns on your first five touches, it’s unbelievable to even think of that”, Johnson said in a Monday afternoon phone interview.
“I think if you were looking at it right now – and it’s obviously insanely early – and you were picking the team that has played the best in the NFC, you would have to take Arizona”, Greenberg said. “They were on the fence on whether I’d be drafted”. He finished the game 8-9 for 120 yards, one touchdown and that interception, plus he also had a significant impact on the ground with 24 yards on three carries.
“Chris Johnson has been around a long time”, said Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio. He worked one sweltering summer tearing out asbestos from schools and apartment buildings in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “A lot less stressful”, he said.
The scouting report on Colin Kaepernick indeed has changed, according to Arizona Cardinals coach Bruce Arians. It’s way to early to reading your own press clippings, as they say. “Because everything we saw on tape in college, he’s brought to the table”. So any time you can do something that’s the first time in the history of the game, that’s very special. He is still growing as a player.
He s playing on as good as a level as anybody I ve ever coached, said Arians, who s lengthy career includes work with Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck and Ben Roethlisberger. “Just how big, we will wait and see”.
In wins over New Orleans and Chicago, the line did not allow a sack and run blocked well enough for the Cardinals to top 100 yards rushing in both games.
“A lot of guys thought I was going to run out of bounds”, he said.
“They just flat out beat us”. Given Seattle’s 0-2 beginning, the powerhouse NFC West looks wide open for the taking. The Falcons play at Dallas on Sunday, with the Cowboys missing injured quarterback Tony Romo. “You’ve just got to learn from them and not do it again”.
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It’s not cut and dried that Massie will return to the starting lineup now that he’s back. They play host to Oakland on Sunday. He has 500 passing yards, and completed 69.4 percent of his passes with two touchdowns, no interceptions.
