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Greg Bedard of Sports Illustrated predicts that the Cardinals will not only play in Super Bowl LI against the Pittsburgh Steelers but they'll beat them in a rematch of Super Bowl XLIII, when Arizona coach Bruce Arians called the game-winning touchdown pass as the offensive coordinator of the Steelers.
I'm willing to bet that Palmer (who hadn't played a postseason game in six years before last January) and Arians (who in the playoffs saw the downside of his rigid 'no risk-it, no biscuit' approach) learned a lot from last year's bitter ending and can apply those lessons moving forward. If this team is healthy and has grown from its mistakes, the Cardinals are fully capable of winning it all, even if it means entering January as a wild-card team and visiting Dallas, Seattle and Green Bay.
In an Arizona-Pittsburgh rematch of Super Bowl XLIII, the Cardinals' dangerous running game and stifling secondary will slow down the Steelers enough to grab a dramatic victory. How about a Larry Fitzgerald toe-touch TD in the back-right corner of the NRG Stadium end zone to match Santonio Holmes' heroics eight years earlier, in Tampa? Sounds good to me.
In addition to the Cardinals being predicted to win the Super Bowl, they were one of four teams featured on the regional cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated.
It took him two tries, but Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson caught six punts and captured it all on a GoPro attached to his helmet.
Veteran cornerback Keenan Lewis told SiriusXM NFL Radio on Tuesday that "Bruce Arians is one of my guys," referring to the Cardinals coach. That could mean that the Cardinals are one of the few teams Lewis is considering as he searches for a new football home.
