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Calais Campbell On His New Contract and His Expectations: “I Think that We Can be a Top-Five Defense in Every Category”

Monday, May 14th, 2012

After winning seven of their final nine games in 2011, the Arizona Cardinals have high expectations heading into the 2012 season. Not only did they add potential relief to the passing game with first-round pick Michael Floyd, but they also locked up young defensive stud Calais Campbell for the short- ...

Kevin Kolb Wishes Arizona’s Pursuit of Peyton Manning Was “Handled a Little Bit Different”

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Kevin Kolb is no stranger to depth chart drama at the quarterback position. The five-year veteran experienced it with Donovan McNabb and Michael Vick in Philadelphia, and he dealt with it again when John Skelton arguably outperformed him during his first year with the Arizona Cardinals in 2011. But the real ...

Ken Whisenhunt: “We’re in a heck of a lot better position at the quarterback position than we were a year ago”

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Last offseason the Arizona Cardinals went out and made a bit of a blockbuster trade to try to land their quarterback of the future. The Cards traded a second round pick as well as a Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie for then 26-year-old Kevin Kolb. The thinking was Arizona would finally fill the ...

Larry Fitzgerald Laments Losses Against the Ravens and Giants Earlier this Year

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

The Arizona Cardinals were sitting at 1-6 through their first seven games this season. They were trying to implement a new defensive system, they were playing a lot of young and inexperienced players, and they were trying to work through the growing pains of a new quarterback who had a ...

Kevin Kolb Still Hopes He’s Able to Play Against His Former Team This Weekend

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

It had been seven weeks since the Arizona Cardinals had won a football game. Patrick Peterson snapped the Cardinals six game skid with a ridiculous 99-yard punt return in overtime to defeat the Rams. The Cardinals celebrated a victory that came without starting quarterback Kevin Kolb. Forced out of the ...

Anquan Boldin Got the Best of His Old Team Sunday

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

After getting embarrassed on Monday Night Football against the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Ravens were on their way to back-to-back embarrassing performances. The Ravens slept-walked their way through their first half against the Arizona Cardinals until Terrell Suggs and former Cardinal Anquan Boldin bailed them out. Playing against his former team, Boldin ...

Brent Grimes on Lions Defenders’ Comments to Injured Matt Ryan: “That’s just not cool. That comes back to people.”

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The Atlanta Falcons' victory over the Detroit Lions should have been about a Super Bowl caliber team finally playing like one, winning consecutive games and doing so on the road in Detroit. It could have been about the Falcons mostly quieting down Calvin Johnson except for one long touchdown. Instead, a ...

Kevin Kolb on Arizona’s 1-4 start: “Put your ego at the door. Let’s think of this as an 11 week season.”

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

Kevin Kolb hasn’t looked particularly strong out in the desert throwing five touchdowns and six interceptions in his first five games. The Arizona Cardinals are 1-4 and are coming off a bye week where they had to do a ton of soul searching. After losing, 34-10, against a previously winless Minnesota Vikings ...

Ken Whisenhunt: “We are just not able to get it done on game day and that is very frustrating for us.”

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

However Ken Whisenhunt wants to phrase the Arizona Cardinals putrid first quarter against the Minnesota Vikings last Sunday, the 28 points the Cardinals allowed in the first 15 minutes of play eliminated any chance they had of winning in Week 5. That's exactly what happened as the Cardinals fell to ...

Beanie Wells on Taking Advantage of Increased Workload In Breakout Week 4 Performance: “I’m finally getting that chance. I’m not looking back.”

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

The Arizona Cardinals have struggled closing out football games through the first four games of the 2011 NFL season. After a narrow victory over the Carolina Panthers in Week 1, the Cards have dropped three straight games by four points or fewer. Although I would contend that the referees appeared ...