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Following up on the
ongoing story. ... Whoever starts at quarterback next season for the Cardinals — and there’s a chance he isn’t on the roster yet — new HC Bruce Arians said the player will have something that he’s always coveted and learned how to find. Arians calls it “The Quarterback Grit.”
Reported by the Arizona Republic
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
“When you go out and evaluate quarterbacks,” Arians said Friday during his introductory new conference, “you can look at arm strength, you can look at accuracy, you can look at height, weight speed — all the things that are coming up with these young quarterbacks — but you truly can’t measure two muscles, the brain and the heart, and that’s what separates them. That’s the grit. ..." Known as a quarterback guru who helped develop Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger and Andrew Luck this past season with the Colts, Arians plans to soon begin evaluating Kevin Kolb, John Skelton and Ryan Lindley. If he doesn’t think any of them are “salvageable,” he said, “We’ll see if there’s a better option at Door Number 2.” In discussing Kolb, who is due a $9 million roster bonus a month before April's draft, Arians said: “If he’s our guy, he’ll be a better player, I promise you that." The Cardinals will also have a power running game, Arians said, and he happens to be a big believer in Ryan Williams, who’s missed most of his first two NFL seasons due to injury.
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