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Arizona Cardinals News and Rumors

Bold statements from the first quarter of the 2012 NFL season

Doug Farrar, yahoo.com

Four weeks is a pretty small sample size in an NFL campaign, but here are a few things that have either become obvious to us, or could happen through the final 13 weeks of the 2012 NFL regular season. The Arizona Cardinals are the best team in the NFL W…

azcentral.com

Even though they’re 4-0, the Arizona Cardinals have considerable shaping and toning to do, especially on offense and specifically when it comes to running the football.

Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com

Dolphins receiver Legedu Naanee had a costly fumble in Sunday’s loss to the Cardinals, and it may have contributed to costing Naanee his job. The Dolphins have released Naanee today and signed veteran receiver Jabar Gaffney to replace him. Naanee has no…

Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com

Last Friday, Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt offered candid insight during an interview on Pro Football Talk regarding the status of quarterback John Skelton and the looming question of whether Skelton or Kevin Kolb will play when Skelton fully recovers …

ESPN.com

The Arizona Cardinals' overtime victory against Miami in Week 4 was remarkable on several fronts. We discussed many of them after the game. Two special-teams aspects went relatively unexplored. One, field goal kicking has improved to the point that Jay …

azcentral.com

Notes: A 4-0 overall record and a fresh overtime victory over the Dolphins made it bearable to look at all the mistakes they made.

azcentral.com

So far, though, the Cardinals are doing their best early impression of the 1980 U.S. Olympic men's hockey team and are starting to take a country and a re-energized fan base by storm.