Jefferson scored on the play to give the Cardinals a 28-14 lead.
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Andre Ellington will not play in Sunday’s game against the Bears. Cutler was ruled out for the rest of the game at the half, with a hamstring injury.
Arizona has gotten quarterback Carson Palmer back from injury and is now 1-0 on the season after defeating the Saints at home by a 31-19 final score.
Cutler completed his first eight passes for 120 yards before getting picked off. He threw a 48-yard touchdown to Josh Bellamy. Aaron Rodgers had a typically efficient day, finishing with three touchdown passes and no picks, and put his mobility on display throughout the game.
Second game ball goes to receiver Larry Fitzgerald.
I will say defensive coordinator James Bettcher did make some nice halftime adjustments and the Cardinals, for the most part, negated giving up big chunks of yardage in the second half.
The scoring began early, when David Johnson took the opening kick-off 108 yards for a Cardinals touchdown. He earned the game ball just 12 seconds into the game.
Carson Palmer threw for four touchdowns, and the Cardinals pulled away in the second half for an easy victory. Or the other hot topic- how Chicago passed on Bruce Arians as Head Coach in 2013, only to watch him have 2 winning seasons in his first 2 years in Arizona. The fumble was overturned following a replay review that showed Cutler’s knee to be on the turf before the ball came out. Cutler can still move the football, still make a lot of great plays with his arm and legs but inevitably will suffer a brain freeze at the worst possible time.
The Cardinals’ David Johnson, a third-round rookie out of Northern Iowa, took the opening kickoff and returned it for a 108-yard touchdown and despite the fact that the Bears would manage to keep it close the majority of the first half, that was effectively the sign you needed as a Bears fan to know that it was going to be a long day.
“It felt good. Felt like that’s how it is supposed to be”, said Forte of the game plan-which had just three more passes than rushes.
“It’s not on him for the holding penalty or the offsides”, he said. I can’t help but think that Langford up the middle could have gotten that yard; however, it’s just one of those plays where if the Bears execute, we aren’t talking about it.
The difficulty with analyzing Clausen’s performance is whether to grade on a curve – his only live snaps in the last four years came in Week 15 last season against the Detroit Lions – or in absolute terms.
However, the Bears might be without their top receiver and one of their starting edge rushers.
Arizona got a special teams touchdown. It was first reported that Cutler had a shoulder injury, but his status was later clarified.
Things were going okay for Jay Culter and the Chicago Bears for a little while on Sunday, but then Cutler threw an interception and it all went downhill from there.
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Fuller was benched for Terrence Mitchell midway through the 4th quarter.
