Arizona Cardinals: 5 positive impact players vs. Chargers

But since these games are only exhibitions, we can go home and not worry about the outcome.

The defense was again good, although they were dominant against a Chargers offense without Philip Rivers and Melvin Gordon.

It’s not all doom and gloom for Arizona though, as a closer look at what happened last week reveals that their starters actually performed respectfully against Kansas City, however, their backups were largely trounced by their opposites over the rest of the game, getting demolished 34-12. Then it was three plays and a punt, followed up by two three-and-outs. They also had some pass protection issues.

The Arizona Cardinals found themselves some players who are fighting for spots on the team and some who have spots locked up that made a huge impact in the game against the San Diego Chargers Saturday night.

After Arians “had a nice talk about dancing” with the rookie, he was impressive, showing speed, strength and agility.

Chargers third-string quarterback Brad Sorensen was 13 of 22 for 122 yards and was intercepted once.

The game is scheduled for kickoff at 9 p.m. Central Time, and will be televised live by the NFL Network.

The big play set up Palmer’s 17-yard TD pass to John Brown.

However Palmer said he just turned on the after burner all of a sudden during the route and was able to catch up to the ball.

“There’s going to be some good and some bad on the film, but once we get it all together I think we’ll be good”, Sowell said.

Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians announced Johnson pulled his hamstring, which caused him to miss Saturday’s 22-19 loss to the San Diego Chargers, per ESPN.com’s Josh Weinfuss. He is expected to miss one or two weeks, Arians said. After a flawless performance in last week’s opener, the veteran quarterback completed only 3-of-7 passes and was sacked twice, mainly due to the group’s self-inflicted errors. Drew Stanton was sacked four times.