Cardinals Keep Rolling

During the NFL season, you see a lot of hype over most of the "Elite Teams" with well known players. You could hear about Tom Brady and New England, Russell Wilson and Seattle, or Peyton Manning and Denver. I doubt anyone would think that this year we would be talking about the, Cardinals? The 7 win and 1 loss Arizona Cardinals. The best record in the NFL Cardinals. I couldn't even remember who plays for Arizona besides Larry Fitzgerald, and I doubt that anyone else could either. However we will all know now about the Arizona Cardinals now as they continue to roll and defeat the Dallas Cowboys in week 9 of the NFL 2014-2015 season.

Carson Palmer has been doing great work in the quarterback position for Arizona in the first 9 weeks of a long season. Although with ups there are downs, Palmer's downfall was his first drive of the game. Throwing a pick-6 to the Cowboy's Tyler Patmon, a 58 yard scamper for Dallas to put up the first points of the game sunday. Speaking of Dallas scoring, they didn't do too much of it against a tough Cardinal defense. On offense quarterback Brandon Weeden filled in for Tony Romo who has been struggling with back problems. It was safe to say that Weeden was not comfortable at all in his own stadium, being held to only a field goal and a late 3 yard pass to Dez Bryant. Who can blame the young quarterback though? The Dallas Cowboys have been sticking to the run all year with DeMarco Murray. Murray already has more than 1000 yards on the season and was on a record season for 8 straight games with 100+ yards each game. The Cardinals defense shut their whole running game down, ending Murrays streak by keeping him to a 79 yard performance on the ground. Turnovers by Weeden and a non-existent running game were key in the win for the Arizona Cardinals. Carson Palmer would make his only mistake with the opening drive pick-6 and turn this game around with scoring drives in the 2nd and 4th quarters. Completing 22 of his 34 attempts in the air Palmer ended his day with 249 yards and 3 passing touchdowns to John Carlson, Jaron Brown, and Andre Ellington. 

I can see now that the biggest NFC contender in the Arizona Cardinals are not joking around. Look for them to compete in the playoffs against some of those big names you hear constantly about. By the end of the regular season, I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot about big Cardinal defense, Palmer, Fitzgerald, and Ellington, the key players in the fight to Super Bowl XLIX (49). That would be an interesting feat for Arizona, playing a Super Bowl in their own house at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale.