Arizona Cardinals home record

OK, so that the Cardinals currently knew their playoff opportunities were fundamentally done after the loss in Miami, but they were officially killed off Sunday. Drew Brees hadn’t done something for 2 games, after which he erupted to-tear apart the Cards. All the while, it was the past residence game of the year and another of those games where lots of players understood what that required — Calais Campbell had recently been speaing frankly about it, and Tony Jefferson tweeted about this pre-game — as contracts tend to be closing and there is such up in the air for 2017.

Carson Palmer is under agreement for 2017. He had been asked about next year, and then he stated he expects is playing. Larry Fitzgerald is under contract for 2017. He stated he will have fun with the last two games “as hard when I can” then see how the offseason plays completely. If Fitz is going to stick around, he’s likely to want to know he’s got the opportunity to make the postseason and win.

No person getting into this season — even although you anticipated the Cardinals to simply take one step right back from 13-3 — thought the Cardinals would-be a pedestrian 4-3-1 at University of Phoenix Stadium. But here they certainly were once again, in a one-score game late, unable to win it like that they had so many times the last two months at home. That’s what stuck with Bruce Arians, and that’s one of many (numerous) what to undo the 2016 season.

— it absolutely wasn’t his best online game statistically however it had been an excellent game for David Johnson, attaching the franchise record for touchdowns in a season and playing much more regular broad receiver than normal as a result of a thin obtaining corps. The Saints had been also attuned to Johnson as a receiver, bracketing him usually on passing performs — which can be new for him.

“I became joking with among their DBs in which he ended up being informing myself when they were scouting us, (they stated) don’t think of me as a running straight back, think of me as a receiver, ” Johnson stated. “That ended up being cool to know.”

— But Johnson today needs 200 obtaining yards the final two games to achieve 1, 000, against two great defenses. Thus that will be hard.

— Palmer ended up being good, and that was with an incapacity to hook up with John Brown on a single wide-open deep pass (Brown performed haul in a 30-yard TD bomb later) with J.J. Nelson losing just what would-have-been a 56-yard TD bomb. It helped the offensive line — from remaining tackle to right, Wetzel, Iupati, Shipley, Boggs and Watford — held up possibly better than expected.

“I happened to be pleased with the way in which we played in advance, ” Shipley said. “There were obviously two things we wish straight back. But for a guy like Boggs just who really hasn’t played and going against a premier 10 pick (Nick Fairley), I thought he performed admirable. There was one play very early but besides that, he performed a pretty good task. And Earl becoming capable he has gotn’t played in quite a few years, and Wetz, we don’t know what quantity mixture of offensive range it is (for us) … I happened to be pleased with the way the dudes reacted.”

— Another rough evening for special teams. Chandler Catanzaro missed a long area goal and another extra point, although the latter finished up maybe not mattering. Justin Bethel’s offsides in the area objective was painful though, since was the actual fact Bethel ended up being offsides on three various kicks — the field goal and a set of extra things, yards included from the kickoffs.

— Linebacker Sio Moore, on questionable blow-to-Brees’-head penalty that killed the opportunity when it comes to Cardinals to put on the Saints late in a seven-point online game: “i did son’t even comprehend the banner was on me personally until late, ” Moore stated quietly. “It was regrettable timing for a call like that. We can’t argue because of the refs. I’ve only surely got to figure exactly what I’ve got to achieve this that situation doesn’t show up to my bill.”

— Campbell, in the ninth NFL period, scored on a 53-yard fumble return and that ended up being the 1st time Campbell was in fact in the end zone since his senior 12 months in twelfth grade when he had a four-touchdown online game as a decent end. That was 2003.

— Tim Hightower is famous around these parts for scoring the game-winning touchdown in NFC Championship game back the 2008 season. He had been traded away ahead of the 2011 season, experienced an awful knee injury and performedn’t play in an NFL game from 2012-14, but has resurrected his job in New Orleans. Sunday, he scored two touchdowns in the same end zone in which he overcome the Eagles in 2008.

“I’m simply thankful, ” Hightower stated. “This process has-been one that features tested myself in almost every method. … simply considering the final (Saints) loss right here a year ago (when you look at the 2015 opener). I becamen’t even regarding the roster. I was released a single day before the game. It types of had everything return full circle. It was special.”

— Hightower was at the exact same Cardinals draft course as Campbell. It had beenn’t astonishing to begin to see the two buddies swap jerseys after the online game. Campbell said he understood Hightower had been behind him on his touchdown run, as Hightower attempted to Beebe Campbell from at the rear of. “I believed it, ” Campbell said. “we pulled the ball up whenever I believed him coming for it. I told him, ‘If you'd knocked the basketball from my arms, we wouldn’t have-been friends any more.’ ”

Tags: A.Q. Shipley, Calais Campbell, Carson Palmer, Chandler Catanzaro, David Johnson, Earl Watford, John Brown, John Wetzel, Justin Bethel, Larry Fitzgerald, Michael Bidwill, Mike Iupati, Sio Moore, Steve Keim, Taylor Boggs, Tim Hightower, Tony Jefferson
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