Detroit Lions’ Ndamukong Suh, Nick Fairley and Ezekiel Ansah pursue Cincinnati Bengals’ Andy Dalton during a game at Ford Field October 20, 2013.
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TEMPE, Ariz. – Arizona Cardinals fans are chipping in to help quarterback Carson Palmer pay the $11,576 fine he received from the National Football League on Friday for a pelvic-thrust gesture late in Arizona’s win over Seattle last Sunday.
But Richard said he has not seen a exhausted team at the end of games but instead “I’ve seen them aggressively going after it, competitive, maintaining their hunger throughout the whole game”.
Their 19-point lead gone and their 35-year-old quarterback seemingly unraveling under a fierce pass rush, the Arizona Cardinals had reason for concern.
There’s simply no way you could’ve told Seahawks coach Pete Carroll that his guys would score 32 before the game and not have him chalk it up as a pleasant evening and one game deficit in the NFC West by the time Al Michaels and Cris Collingsworth signed off. Instead, the Seahawks find themselves below.
-WR Larry Fitzgerald, in his 12th season, is on pace to for his best year, statistically.
Can you imagine what another loss in this fashion would to do the confidence of the Bengals?
St. Louis appeared to be on the right track and a real contender for a playoff spot in the first month of the season, and thanks to injuries on defense, on the offensive line, not to mention shoddy QB play, they have resumed their status as a middling team without an identity, despite the truly stellar play of rookie RB Todd Gurley.
Cincinnati cannot abandon the run this weekend or it could force a doomsday scenario on the road against a defense that has tallied 15 sacks and 14 interceptions. The Cardinals beat Baltimore on “Monday Night Football”. Sometimes you don’t get to just PICK. “Seattle is a fantastic team”.
The other game in the afternoon on Fox should be a good one. Fitzgerald has more catches (65) and touchdowns (seven) through nine games than in any of his previous 11 seasons. This rivalry has been haltingly one-sided the past few seasons, and that was with Colin Kaepernick out there for San Francisco. “Tough teams overcome one player’s mistakes and move on”.
After watching Seattle run off 29 of 35 points and committing two costly turnovers deep in their own end, the Cardinals responded with a 10-play, 83-yard drive to retake the lead midway through the fourth quarter.
Eventually, Palmer left Oakland for Arizona and has thrived ever since.
It was one of several times Palmer and Arians were on the same field as division rivals. If the offense stops dropping passes and makes a little more headway on the ground and the defense can force errant throws by a less-than-mobile quarterback, the Bengals can pull of the road win. He finished the game catching only 3 of 8 targets for 41 yards and no touchdowns. I mean every game is important. K.J. Wright was ruled down at the 3 after the recovery and Marshawn Lynch bulled his way in for his third touchdown of the season on the next play. Seattle has also missed twice on a pair of two-point conversions. Palmer was knocked around in Seattle and had two fumbles.
On the other hand, a loss to the dismal Niners and/or a defeat at the hands of a Pittsburgh squad now missing quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, could all but spell doom for a team that certainly had higher expectations coming into the 2015 season.
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They also have all the college games listed, which makes it a resource if you want know what channel games are on. I feel like they are one more bad break away from being Charlie Brown trying to kick a football.
