Arizona Cardinals News

As bad as the Arizona Cardinals have been, they've been worse on the road. Heading into Sunday's game at Minnesota, the Cardinals are 0-4 away from home this season and 3-17 since Dennis Green took over as coach in 2004. ``Good teams win on the road,'' Cardinals defensive tackle Darnell Dockett said after Wednesday's practice. ``You've got to play together as a team on the road. You can have the ...

Cardinals defensive end Bertrand Berry will miss the rest of the season after tearing triceps muscles in Sunday's victory over Detroit. An MRI exam Monday revealed the seriousness of the injury, coach Dennis Green said. Berry will undergo surgery to repair the tear, probably this week. ``A big loss for us,'' Green said. ``I've always said Bertrand is the No. 1 leader on our team.'' It is the second year ...

Some Arizona Cardinals fans are wearing paper bags over their heads in embarrassment, and players are running out of things to say. All coach Dennis Green can say is ``you have to keep taking your cuts.'' ``That's what it comes down to,'' Green said on Monday. ``You can't get out of a slump as a baseball player by watching the ball go by. You've got to get out there and ...

Former Arizona Cardinals offensive coordinator Keith Rowen has filed a grievance with the NFL over the circumstances surrounding his demotion. Team spokesman Mark Dalton confirmed Friday that Rowen had filed a grievance but had no other comment. No date has been set for the case to go before an arbitrator. Coach Dennis Green stripped Rowen, a 23-year NFL coaching veteran, of his offensive coordinator duties on Tuesday morning, a few hours after the Cardinals blew a 20-point lead ...

Six turnovers, three points on offence, and somehow the Chicago Bears are still unbeaten. Somehow, some way, the Bears rallied from 20 points down at halftime and escaped with a 24-23 victory in Arizona on Monday night, leaving the shellshocked Cardinals to ponder yet another excruciating late-game collapse. ``Sometimes, when you're a team of destiny, things like that happen,'' Chicago coach Lovie Smith said. The Bears are off to their best start in 20 years at 6-0. For that, ...

Defensive tackle Darnell Dockett of the Arizona Cardinals signed a five-year contract extension Friday, the latest in a series of moves designed to keep the team's top young players. The six-foot-four, 290-pound lineman would have been a restricted free agent after this year, his third NFL season. A third-round draft pick out of Florida State in 2004, Dockett is the third of what the Cardinals consider their core group of ...

This might be the final NFL season for Kurt Warner. The Arizona Cardinals' 35-year-old quarterback, who lost his job to rookie Matt Leinart, said Thursday he is considering retirement after this season. ``Definitely I'm thinking about my next step and what's best for me and all those things,'' he said. Warner, who went from the Arena Football League and NFL Europe to lead St. Louis to two Super Bowl appearances, ...

Matt Leinart was a portrait of poise in his impressive first start as an NFL quarterback. The next test will be considerably tougher, against the brutal Bears in prime time on Monday night. This rookie, though, relishes the bright lights. ``Yeah, it's pretty cool,'' he said after the Arizona Cardinals practised Wednesday. ``It's my second career start and a Monday night game against the Bears. It doesn't get any better ...

The struggling Arizona Cardinals lost Pro Bowl receiver Larry Fitzgerald for perhaps a month or more with a hamstring injury. ``I'd say it will be at least two weeks, two-to-five maybe, two-to-four, it's hard to say,'' coach Dennis Green said at his Monday news conference. ``It's a real strong pull, maybe even a slight tear in there also.'' Two other starters _ guard Milford Brown and nose tackle Kendrick Clancy ...

Larry Johnson gave the Kansas City Chiefs quite a scare. The Pro Bowl running back was injured on a facemask tackle at the end of a 78-yard pass play late in Kansas City's 23-20 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. Johnson broke free down the left sideline after catching a short pass from Damon Huard. The Cardinals' Antrel Rolle grabbed Johnson by the facemask and the running back's head ...

Matt Leinart's first NFL game as a starter Sunday had a great beginning, a so-so middle and a nearly fantastic finish. The Kansas City Chiefs have Larry Johnson, though, and his big play made the difference. Johnson rumbled 78 yards on a pass play from Damon Huard to set up Lawrence Tyne's 19-yard field goal with 1:36 to play and the Chiefs rallied from 10 down in the fourth quarter to beat the Arizona Cardinals 23-20. Leinart could hardly ...

Kansas City Chiefs Pro Bowl running back Larry Johnson was injured on a facemask tackle at the end of a 78-yard pass play late in Sunday's game against the Arizona Cardinals. Johnson broke free down the left sideline after the short pass. The Cardinals' Antrel Rolle grabbed Johnson by the facemask and the running back's head was twisted as he fell out of bounds at the Arizona 8. He lay motionless for a moment, but eventually got ...

Edgerrin James is averaging 3.1 yards per carry through his first four games with the Arizona Cardinals _ by far his career-low. He says there's no use blaming his offensive line. ``A lot of people want to point fingers here and there, and I just say there's no need to point fingers because this is what we've got,'' James said after practice Thursday. ``We're not going to have a new ...

The starting call has come earlier than expected for Matt Leinart, who went through his first practice as an NFL first-string quarterback on Wednesday. Leinart capped the session with a little extra work on the field with Edgerrin James, then pronounced himself confident for his first start for Arizona on Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs, although he acknowledged, ``They're probably licking their chops with a rookie quarterback coming in.'' ...

Just imagine how good the Atlanta Falcons will be on defence when John Abraham returns. For the third time in four games, the Atlanta defence didn't allow a touchdown. In fact, cornerback DeAngelo Hall scored one of his own Sunday with a 36-yard interception return and the Falcons cruised past the Arizona Cardinals 32-10. The Michael Vick-led offence is having trouble getting into the end zone once it gets close _ not that it matters the way ...

Michael Vick and the Atlanta Falcons are having trouble scoring touchdowns when they get close to the end zone. The way the defence is playing, it doesn't really matter. DeAngelo Hall returned an interception 36 yards for a touchdown, Jerious Norwood broke off a 78-yard scoring run and 46-year-old Morten Andersen kicked five field goals in Atlanta's 32-10 victory over the Arizona Cardinals. The Falcons (3-1) head into their bye ...