What Keeps Carson Palmer Going?

October 9, 2015   ·   Dan Pompei   ·   Jump to comments

I first met Carson Palmer 13 years ago. He wore khaki pants and a white button-down shirt with pinstripes. He was fresh-faced and clean-shaven. In his eyes was the glint of promise that you see in a man who is about to accomplish great things.
He was supposed to become the Bengals' version of Troy Aikman. It didn't turn out quite that way.
The quarterback who walked off the practice field and into the locker room on a recent October day wearing No. 3 for the Cardinals was a different quarterback than the one who wore No. 9 for the Bengals. The thermometer showed 106 degrees in Tempe. Palmer's cheeks were ruddy, his jersey soaked with sweat. "You never get used to the heat," he said.
He might never get used to it, but he has learned to deal with it. He was feeling the heat way back in middle school, when he was the quarterback for the Mission Viejo Cowboys. He was without peer in the Junior All American Conference, and he was expected to prove it with every throw. The hea...

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