One thing every NFL team can be thankful for in 2016
By John Buhler
Thanksgiving starts the beginning of Week 12 of the 2016 NFL season. Here is one thing every NFL can be thankful for Thanksgiving in 2016.
Week 12 of the 2016 NFL season coincides with Thanksgiving 2016. With only six weeks left of the 2016 NFL regular season, we have a good idea of which teams are going to the playoffs and which ones are staying this January.
Football and Thanksgiving go hand in hand. The NFL thankfully will put three of its games on this national holiday so you can get zone out the ramblings of a relative mid-afternoon Thursday. Be thankful for football. Here is something every NFL team can be thankful for this Thanksgiving.
Arizona Cardinals: They can get a better quarterback than Carson Palmer
It happens. Quarterbacks on the wrong side of 35 will inevitably have their scheduled date with Father Time. Last season, Peyton Manning fell off a cliff at age 39 for the 2015 Denver Broncos. 2016 has given us the beginning of the end for Carson Palmer with the Arizona Cardinals.
Yes, he is coming off his best season as a professional in 2015 as the runner-up to NFL MVP, but we knew this day was coming. After the disgusting six turnover game in the 2015 NFC Championship that only Jake Delhomme can relate to, Palmer is rapidly decaying as an NFL signal caller before our very eyes. This should be the last year that he starts in Arizona and that’s okay.
Though he did suffer chest pains are a bad loss on the road to the Minnesota Vikings, Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians is the type of offensive mind that can land another strong quarterback in the Valley of the Sun. Arizona has a solid roster that general manager Steve Keim has put together. They should be able to land a decent signal caller in either 2017 NFL free agency or this spring’s NFL draft.
Arizona is 4-5-1 and very likely not going to make the NFC Playoffs. The Cardinals aren’t catching Seattle and the NFC Wild Card picture will almost certainly unfold in the NFC East. Cardinals fans should be thankful that Arians, Keim, and the Bidwell Family have created a winning culture that will allow the franchise to be in great position to land its next star quarterback in 2017.