Cincinnati Bengals-Arizona Cardinals: Keys to game and who will win

To recap: Palmer asked to be traded after that lousy 2010 season, a request turned down by Bengals owner Mike Brown.

Palmer wanted out, Brown insisted the quarterback honor his contract.

The true measure of how strong this Cincinnati defense is will come tonight at University of Phoenix Stadium when the Bengals (8-1) face the high-flying, deep-passing Arizona Cardinals (7-2). And Palmer didn’t hide how much it will mean.

Sunday night’s total is set at 48.5 points. After last week’s big victory over the Seahawks, Coach Bruce Arians was asked if he feared his team would let down against the 8-1 Bengals.

The Raiders gave up a first-round pick in 2012 and a second-rounder in 2013.

It’s the type of setting Arizona’s defense looks forward to, the bright lights of Sunday Night Football against one of the league’s most explosive groups. As the Bengals attempted to storm their comeback, with 1:30 left to play, Dalton completes a pass to Tyler Eifert who gets to the Arizona 16-yard line, and (go-figure) fumbles.

Quarterback Carson Palmer is second in passer rating (108.0), and another former Bengal, tight end Jermaine Gresham, is becoming a bigger part of the attack after a slow start due to offseason back surgery.

Carson Palmer was in the midst of the best games of his professional career, on a nationally televised primetime stage in a hostile road environment, and lighting up what was supposed to be a defense that’d had his number in recent years. “I did when he was here”. I think this is the most likely situation, but still this is going to be a very hard game to predict and could very well be the game of the week. New England is on a few insane mission, to the surprise of no one who followed Deflategate, and no matter how much we want this battle to be real, it’s not almost as close at the current moment. I’m sure she loved that analogy and I’d love to see her reaction. “He’s definitely going to bring the best out of me, I’m going to try to do my best to bring the best out of him”.

A quarterback who is in the MVP conversation, a two-headed monster at running back and a group of pass catchers with four players who have at least 22 receptions this season for a top-10 offense. “We obviously disagreed, and it ended in a very colorful, heated argument, and we disagree with each other”. QB Carson Palmer has an embarrassment of riches to play catch with, but only if he has time.

What has not been an issue, Richard said, is the length of time the defense has been on the field. “I look at him play and I see the player that we had when he was here”.

He won’t worry about any lingering bad feelings the Bengals fans may harbor toward him. You know, the way most people communicate with their friends. Andre Smith is questionable with a concussion.

-This will be the Cardinals’ second consecutive game on Monday night.

Denver Broncos safety T.J. Ward: $10,000 for unnecessary roughness, on the apparent punch at Kansas City Chiefs receiver Jeremy Maclin that led to Ward’s ejection.

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Floyd was injured making a diving attempt at a pass from Philip Rivers in a loss to the Chicago Bears on November 9.