Short-Handed Cardinals in Full-On Desperation Mode as Season Slips Away

October 6, 2016   ·   Gary Davenport   ·   Jump to comments

When the 2016 NFL schedule was announced, Thursday's Week 5 matchup between the Arizona Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers appeared a lopsided affair—a walk in the park for a Cardinals team expected to be among the league's best against a Niners squad expected to be among the worst.
As often as not, things don't work out in the NFL like we thought they would. While we appear to have been spot-on about the 49ers, a reeling Redbirds team heads into the game short-handed and in desperation mode.
To say that not many people expected Thursday's game to be a battle for last place in the NFC West is an understatement. The Cardinals didn't just enter 2016 as the favorites in their division; in the eyes of many, they were the favorites to represent the NFC in Super Bowl LI after winning a franchise-record 13 games in 2015.
Instead, after falling 17-13 to the first-place Los Angeles Rams last week, the Cardinals have lost as many games in a month as they did all of last s...

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