Kolb starts, Heap sits, Jaymar Johnson’s chance
Posted by on December 4, 2011 – 12:46 pmAs expected, Kevin Kolb will start at quarterback today for the Cardinals. Not as expected: tight end Todd Heap is inactive again, thanks to his hamstring problems. The Cardinals will give wide receiver Jaymar Johnson a chance to play too, inactivating not only Stephen Williams but also Chansi Stuckey at the position. Heap’s absence, after playing last week in St. Louis, has to be disappointing. This season has not turned out the way anyone expected for him.
Jeremy Bridges will remain in the starting lineup at right tackle, having usurped Brandon Keith.
Besides Heap, Stuckey and Williams, the Cards have put four others on the inactive list:
- QB Rich Bartel
- T D’Anthony Batiste
- S Kerry Rhodes (foot)
- LB Joey Porter (knee)
Tags: inactives, Jaymar Johnson, Todd Heap
Posted in Blog | 18 Comments »
By C on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
Hi Darren,
What has Jaymar Johnson done in practice to elevate his status?
Does Joey Porter carry lots of luggage and iron the team uniforms better than the equipment managers? He has no business on this roster and hasn’t since the season started.
My obligatory Sunday Porter slam! I may now go about my Sunday.
By garrett on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
Rob Housler starting at TE?
By Codyw on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
GRRRR todd heap has been really pissing me off we need to get rid of his ass
By Darren Urban on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
Garrett –
RE: Starting TE
It will be Jeff King.
By AndyStandsUp on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
Have to include Stuckey as a disappointment also.
Signed for 2 years, 3.5 mil and as a slant “expert” IMO.
Now 3 catches for 32 yds, costly fumble and a healthy scratch after, boy, what a mistake.
By Nick Pepe on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
Housler finds the end zone. Defense continues to shine. Larry does what he does. Cards win. I got that feelin……
Nick Pepe
Lifetime Member
By cards62 on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
Half time of the Cowboy game.
Much love to the defense for being the only squad that showed up for the home game.
Will our coverage teams wake up and make some plays so we quit giving up field position?
49 yards of total offense in the first half. Do you believe it 49 stinking yards? I wish our defense could play our offense every week as we would look like the 85 Bears on defense.
Even Tim Tebow and the Broncos are getting better on offense and we can not even pick up a first down after gaining 9 yards on our first down play.
Please hire Norv Turner the very minute he becomes available.
Go defense beat the Cowboys.
By Gary on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
Hi Darren,
I asked you earlier this week if the Cardinals would be wearing all RED for this game…… Well I’m glad they are! GO BIG RED!
By Austin on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
Cards62
Apparently you didn’t pay attention because Tebow and the Bronco’s only had about 50 yards of offense in the first half of their game.
Just finished watching the game and WOW what a finish, Nice to see Kolb clicking after the rust peeled off. Hope we can continue to play like we did in the second half. GO CARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Orange slice on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
Congrat to the Defense they are the one’s that Won that Game !
By wnycardfan on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
wow, what a game and finish. I have to say watching the first half a little, I was thinking, other than the DEF looking good, here we go with same old offesne and Kolb looking bad. But that 2nd half they looked a lot better. I don’t know what they did at halftime, but I hope they keep doing it. Kolb looked better, still scrambling a bit more than I’d like, but he didn’t turn the ball over WOW, that is progress. Same with all Offense, no turn overs. DEF played really good. 5 sacks, nicely done. Looks like some good progress all over, I’m glad for them. And we didn’t have to have PP return the kick to win this time. GREAT guys
By azfancolo on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
Man what a game thank you Jason Garette for calling the timeout man would have love to see all those cowgirl fans leave. Do have to admit Kolb looked little more comfortable in the pocket maybe being hurt helped a little to see what was going on!!
By cardsalltheway on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
I’d been thinking how little LSH was doing as a kick returner. Hopefully his TD today will loosen him up a bit for a kickoff return in one of these last games. Great game, even if Jason Garrett did give it to us. Garrett blew it, he should’ve called time-out with 20 seconds remaining to possibly get closer then call another time-out for the kick if need be. Anyway, I love it when the Cardinals beat the Cowboys! Can we win out to go 9-7 ? That would be great but the odds are against us. And even more so to qualify for the playoffs is we do.
By Jzoully on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
Darren,
Wow Patrick Peterson looked very good keeping Dez Bryant and Laurant Robinson bottled up… Looks like the corner we wanted in the draft, is there any way that he might be teamed up next season w/ a rookie draft pick in Dre Kirkpatrick from Alabama or Morris Claiborne from PP23′s alameda LSU?
By Darren Urban on Dec 4, 2011 | Reply
Jzoully –
RE: Draft
Everything is possible. But no, I wouldn’t think they’d take a CB in the first round.
By Vic on Dec 5, 2011 | Reply
After beating the Cowboys the comments about the game on NFL network were that the Cowboys play down to the competition. It is time to write NFL Network and blast them for not commenting on the positive on the Cardinals.
Come on let’s let them know!
By darren on Dec 5, 2011 | Reply
Wow what a game. team came together and finished the game.
love the blog but wanted to say thanks. im about 3 rows in front of your family and your son makes these games so much fun. he is a die hard cardinal fan and my daughters love it. he gets them pumped up and that makes these games so much better.. thx
By Darren Urban on Dec 5, 2011 | Reply
darren –
RE: Family
Thank you for the compliments.