Kaspers Korner

The Arizona Cardinals went to the Superbowl last year, but are still having a hard time selling out games.

With these recent turn of events one has to wonder if the Cardinals deserve their football team?

It would be one thing if the Cardinals were a terrible football team, but they are leading the NFC West with a 4-2 record.

Of the remaining 10 games seven of them are against teams with .500 records or worst.
Yeah, it is Arizona and there are probably a lot of other things to do.

However, the Cardinals have a great football teams with a quarterback that is going to soon be retired.

In the end the reality is that they do not deserve their teams as they are other cities that are in worst situations that still come out and support their team even though they maybe not winning.

Many people are upset that Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Farve cannot decide when to stay retired.

With the news that the late Pat Tillman wanted to come back and play a lesson should be learned.

Football as violent and disabling as the game is, one of the greatest sports in the world.

There is no greater feeling after putting in a hard week of practice and having it all paid off on Sunday.

To hear that Tillman regreted joing the army and wanted to come back is not surprising.

People need to realize that we all live once and should play football as long as we can physically.

The reason is that once it passes you by you can never go back and play.

In the end once you play organized football it is in you like a drug.

The Arizona Cardinals took running back Chris Wells in this past April’s National Football League Draft to hopefully establish a running game.

Even with wells the Cardinals running game was not existent Sunday night against the Indianapolis Colts.

Simply, it is quality offensive linemen that open up holes in the running game, unless you have a running back like former Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders.

In the end if the Cardinals are going to make the playoffs they have to establish the running game.

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin hurt his hamstring late in August, which now is still not fully healed.

In this case Boldin is right to sit out the regular season opener.

Boldin has been battling the Cardinals front office for either a new contract or to be traded.

That may lead many to believe he is most likely milking this injury to send a message.

Hamstring injuries are not to be messed with when it comes to wide receivers as without two good legs they are useless.

The Cardinals are stocked at wide receiver with Steve Breaston as the third wide receiver on the team.

What Cardinals fans should be more worried about is the slug at left tackle in Mike Gandy.

After seeing Gandy personally for two years with the Buffalo Bills Gandy is lucky to even be in the league as he was terrible with the Bills.

In the end with with starting quarterback Kurt Warner being 38 years old Cardinal fans need to worry about him making it through the season.

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin wants to get paid any which way.  The thing is that the Cardinals could have gotten it over with already.

The Cardinals could have already traded Boldin already as they have their replacement on the roster already in wide receiver Steve Breaston.

Breaston as the number three wide receiver on the Cardinals caught 77 passes for 1,006 with three touchdowns.

As the number two wide receiver Breaston should improve on those stats, but how much remains to be seen as the number two cornerback on a football team is usually more talented than the number three cornerback.

The question is why haven’t the Cardinals done this already?

Nobody can answer that question, but the reality is the longer they wait to do something with Boldin the more likely hood they will come away with nothing.

In the end the Cardinals will wind up trading as they are out of salary cap room this year and even next year it will be hard to fit Boldin’s demands in as they already have wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald signed to a huge contract.

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin has been asking for a new contract for a while now.  With No progress being made there is a good possibility that he will be a hold out.

The situations has only got worst for Boldin as safety Adrian Wilson signed a contract extension.

When Wilson signed his new deal it put the Cardinals close to the salary cap, which means that a new deal is not likely to come any times soon for Boldin.

On top of that the Cardinals also have to try and get a long term contract done with linebacker Karlos Dansby who was given the franchise tag earlier this offseason.

The only choice that Boldon has to get anything done is to hold out of training camp.

If they still don’t give him a new contract or trade him then he will have to hold out till week 10 of the regular season, which is the last week a player can report and get credit for a year towards his contract.

It become apparent that Boldin is becoming uneasy as he has changed agents and that only adds to the evidence that Boldin will hold out.

If fellow players on the Cardinals were smart they would do what is best for the team and sacrafice a little bit of their pay in order to get a deal done for Boldin.

However, with wide receiver Steve Breaston a capable starter neither the Cardinals players or management will be inclined to do anything.

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin has been seeking a new contract for a while now.  The Cardinals wide receiver has only one move left, and that is hold out.

Boldin demanded a new contract when fellow Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald received his new contract prior to the 2008 season.

Since then Boldin has been doing things the nice way by showing up for everything, which of course did not work.

The problem is that Boldin has two years left on his contract.  That means the team does not feel any urgency to address the issue.

So, Boldin has only one option and that is hold out during the regular season.

Then the Cardinals will have to listen, because Boldin is too valuable an asset to the Cardinals.

Boldin is well within his right to demand a new contract as he is only making $2.75 million this year and three million next year.

Any other owner would have paid Boldin by now, but the Cardinals owners are the Bidwells and they are cheap.

With news coming out today that Boldin fired his agent it is only going to get uglier from here on out.

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin has been wanting a new contract for a while.  Finally, the Cardinals are moving in the right direction.

Boldin wants to be paid like fellow wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald.  Fitzgerald signed a four year $40 million deal with $30 million in guarantees in March of 2008.

The problem is that statistically Boldin did not have as many catches or yards per a season as Fitzgerald.  Fitzgerald has had 90 plus catches each of the last two years, along with over 1,400 yards receiving each year.  Boldin has done neither.

With salaries escalating players near the top of their position are going to ask for record breaking deal.  The reason is so that the amount of money they make per a year is not half of what the next big deal is in three years.

The problem for the Cardinals is that they are cheap and they have an alternative in Steve Breaston at wide receiver.

Head coach Ken Whisenhunt went on record as saying that the team would listen to all trade offers.   That is the right move for the team.

The Cardinals can easily get in return two first round draft picks that they could use to bolster their team.  Along with Breaston as a proven able replacement, the Cardinals would not miss Boldin.

JJ Arrington RB unrestricted signed with Broncos four year
Monty Beisel LB unrestricted signed with Cheifs
Bertrand Berry DE unrestricted resigned with Cardinals
Ralph Brown CB unrestricted resigned with Cardinals one year $745 thousand
Elton Brown G unrestricted resigned with team
Karlos Dansby LB unrestricted franchised by team, signed tender $9.678 million
Eric Green CB unrestricted signed with Dolphins
Clark Haggans LB unrestricted

Leonard Pope TE restricted resigned with team
Terrelle Smith FB unrestricted

Antonio Smith DE unrestricted signed with Texans five years $35 million $12.5 million guaranteed.
Brian St. Pierre QB unrestricted resigned with team one year one million
Kurt Warner QB unrestricted resigned with team two year $23 million, $19 million guaranteed.
Gabe Watson DT restricted resigned with team

The Arizona Cardinals finished an improbable playoff run, which culminated in a loss in the Superbowl.  Now, the Cardinals face the decision of bringing back quarterback Kurt Warner, or move on.

Warner will turn 38 in June and with the way Brett Farve performed at age 39 last season the Cardinals would be best to move on.

Warner had a history of injuries at the end of his run with the Saint Louis Rams.  That led to his departure from the Rams.

Warner was able to stay healthy behind a okay offensive line.  However, Warner is up there in football years and one good shot will end his season, or alter it completely like the way it did for Farve.

The Cardinals do have quarterback Matt Leinart waiting in the wings after watching Warner play for a season.  If that is not enough behind a possible future Hall of Fame quarterback, then Leinart will never be ready.

It may be a step back, but in the long run it benefits the team the most.