For the first time since his bout with COVID-19, Arizona Cardinal pass rusher Chandler Jones spoke to the media about his health among other things. “I feel really good,” said Jones. “I’m still getting my taste and smell back. I just had a stomach bug that was kind of benign. It came and went.” Jones, who debunked a report that…...
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray is officially questionable heading into this weekend’s divisional matchup at San Francisco. The third-year signal caller, in 40 career NFL games, has never missed a start. Yet due to a lingering ankle injury suffered in the final moments of last week’s loss to the Green Bay Packers, there’s reason to believe Kyler Murray may not…...
With the NFL’s annual trading deadline less than two days away, many Cardinal fans have their sights set on another impact addition to help fuel the team toward a championship run. October’s arrival of Pro Bowl tight end Zach Ertz sent shockwaves throughout the desert, with the former Eagle landing in Arizona for what equated to 30 cents on the…...
Seven weeks into the NFL season and the Arizona Cardinals have finally lost a football game. It had been so long since the Redbirds had tasted defeated that many of us, including myself, had semi-forgotten what it felt like not to see this Cardinal team come out victorious. We’ve been conditioned to expect not only quality football but flat our…...
The Arizona Cardinals are 7-0 and yet they’ve just suffered their first real defeat of the 2021 season. Via ESPN’s Adam Schefter, defensive end J.J. Watt will undergo what is now likely to be season-ending shoulder surgery. Watt apparently suffered the injury during the second half of the team’s home victory over the Houston Texans. While Watt was seen exiting…...
What does it mean to be elite? Typically the term is referred to a select individual that is superior to those they are routinely compared against. By that definition, Arizona Cardinal defensive coordinator Vance Joseph is elite at what he does. While he may not have the cache’ and staying power of someone like a Vic Fangio or Gus Bradley,…...
Kyler Murray could feel it after the game. “They got after us pretty good…I took some shots today.” Those shots had the Cardinal Pro Bowl quarterback entering the team’s blue medical tent on two separate occasions amidst Arizona’s 31-5 blowout victory over the Houston Texans. “I got a little wrap around…nothing crazy…little bruise…little dead-leg for a second,” said Murray. “After…...
Nearly two years later and repeating the terms of the deal, especially out loud, still sounds completely made up. All-Pro receiver DeAndre Hopkins traded for pick 40, an exchange of fourth-rounders and running back David Johnson. The deal that consummated back on March 16th of 2020 remains one of the most lopsided trades in modern NFL history, mostly because even…...
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there’s a full-blown culture shift happening with a certain desert football team. It’s not only that the Arizona Cardinals are undefeated at 6-0 but more so how they’ve gotten to this point. In past eras, led by Kurt Warner and Carson Palmer, the Redbirds showed they were capable of winning a slew of…...
In case you haven’t noticed, these ain’t your grand-daddy’s suddenly 6-0 Arizona Cardinals. Facing near impossible circumstances, which included the absence of their head coach, Kyler Murray and the Arizona Cardinals traveled to Cleveland and put an absolute whooping on the previously favored Browns by the final score of 37-14. “It’s been a rough week…losing our head coach and losing…...