Arizona Cardinals Who Must Step Up vs. Lions

The only possible exception is tight end Darren Fells, who didn’t practice on Wednesday with a hip injury.

“Carson Palmer is playing as well as any point in time during his career”, he said.

“Those two guys legitimized the locker room for all of the rest of the players, that we were going to be OK offensively because we had quarterbacks”, Arians said. He has gotten comfortable playing mostly out of the slot and has been resurgent after failing to top 1,000 yards the past three seasons. “I’ll be ready to go”.

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer, receiver Larry Fitzgerald and running Chris Johnson are a combined 97 years old. He can put his foot in the ground like Chris, but he also can just shake somebody down in the middle of the field. He played only six games previous year while dealing with a damaged nerve in his throwing shoulder and then suffering a season-ending torn anterior cruciate ligament. I’m taking the home team and the free field goal, as I think the Lions win this game outright.

“He’s a great protector (and) really, really smart”, Palmer said. “He’s playing as good as probably anybody I’ve ever had”.

“This ain’t cheerleading, it’s football”, Ellington said. Arians said the matchup will offer a chance to see what this team is made of since it is responding to the type of loss it usually doesn’t suffer, while Palmer admitted it could be good for a team to drop a game because it allows them to embrace the challenge of coming back the next time out. “He’s so quick and elusive and has breakaway speed”.

The Arizona Cardinals look to bounce back from an embarrassing home loss to the St. Louis Rams.

Yet with one-quarter of the season in the bag, Detroit is 29th in points (16.5 per game), 29th in total offense and last – by a wide margin – in rushing.

Arians’ optimism came before the Cardinals filled a need at running back by signing Chris Johnson in mid-August.

As Arians said, a big part of that is the veterans who have been in this situation before stepping up and ensuring everyone does what they are supposed to do.

The way the Cardinals see it, turning the page really isn’t all that hard.

The offensive line, with two new members, had a few communication problems last week. After being sacked once in the first three games, Palmer was sacked four times by the Rams and was hit after throwing on several more occasions. We wanted a veteran back in case Andre (Ellington) got hurt. “This is a time for your leadership to stand up, and if you have really good leadership, you won’t lose two in a row”. “Obviously now you throw in the crowd noise and that issue and we’ll be ready for it. We’re prepared”.