There are several guys who could or could not play, but I don’t think anyone has been officially ruled out yet. We’ll know more tomorrow or Friday but for now the big names with question marks are:

Boldin – (has to be doubtful at best)
Roderick Hood – (starting CB – strained groin vs. Bills & was “very sore” at the beginning of the week)
Bertrand Berry (missed last two games but has to be questionable at best)
Adrian Wilson (played on limited basis against Bills but should be closer to full speed by Sunday)

That’s all of the top of my head but if there are any new names when the report comes out today, I’ll update.

I don’t know what will happen after this season but for now it seems like everyone is just ignoring the 1,000 pound elephant in the corner. Q has vowed to play out the season without causing a big stink and I imagine we’ll start the standoff once the Cardinals’ season is over. As far as whether or not he’ll sign with the Cardinals, I honestly don’t have any idea. The Cardinals will at least make an attempt to re-do is deal, even if it is a feeble one. If it’s apparent pretty quickly that the two sides can’t come together, he’s got to be traded. Both sides can’t go through the 2009 season with this hanging over their heads. As far as when the trade would go down, I personally hope it’s before the draft but your guess is as good as mine.

The Cardinals D is tied for third in the league with 15 sacks but it nine of their sacks have come in two games (BUF & SF). For whatever reason, the defensive game plan didn’t involve very much blitzing in the other three games, especially the WAS and NYJ games. With the game being at home though, I’d bet that the game plan will be pretty aggressive. The best pass rusher has been Travis LaBoy (4 sacks) but if Bertrand Berry (3 sacks in 3 games) returns to the lineup, the pass rush could be even better.

Hindsight is 20/20 so I’m sure if they’d have know he could be a dominant Pro Bowl guard, they’d have tried to keep him. As far as the current OL, it’s average. Nothing special but nothing terrible either. Wayne Gandy has been a great free agent signing, for the money, at LT and Levi Brown is a developing second year player at RT. Brown got thoroughly abused in the Jets game so Greg Ellis might have a big game. At guards, we’ve got a young kid at RG, Deuce Lutui, who’s been on the verge of losing his job since camp, and LG is Reggie Wells who is solid but unspectacular. At center, Lyle Sendlein is playing for the injured Al Johnson (remember him), but the drop off is less than you’d expect considering that there was some talk of Sendlein pushing AJ for his job in camp. He’s young and had trouble against Kris Jenkins in New York so Jay Ratliff could give him a tough game.

The defense played horrible, they were stuck with a short field several times but they did very little to slow Farve down.

QB – Warner’s the man right obviously, he’s been really good so far. We’ll see what happens next year, he’s a free agent and there are some rumors that he plans to retire after the season. Leinart will get another chance to be ‘the guy’ for the Cardinals. He had a good camp and preseason but one really bad half led to him losing the job. He’s still got the talent to be a decent starter in the this league, IMO.

RB – There may not be a more popular player than Tim Hightower in AZ right now. Most of us hope that it’s at least a 50/50 split for playing time by the end of the season and that Edge is released after the season. Interestingly enough, the Cardinals RB coach used to be in Dallas and was MB3’s coach. The coach started comparing him to MB3 on draft day and hasn’t stopped since. He’s a tough runner with a good burst but lacks top end speed. As for Edge, he’s a threat to turn a big pass or a big run into a 9 yard gain everytime he touches the ball. He’s slowing down and while he may turn a one yard gain into four on a regular basis, he may never run for 20 yards again in his career.

How I wish we would pinch up the CB’s and try to push the WR’s off their routes…..

Stewart would have to get fired before Sunday for that to happen…

Other WRs – Steve Breaston steps into Q’s spot and he’s a young, developing player but he’s explosive. He was just a returner last year (his rookie season) but he’s made great strides as a receiver. If you guys do game plan to take away Fitz, Breaston is the next guy in line. As far as the third and fourth receiver, it’s a toss-up between rookie, Early Doucet and 6th year pro, Jerheme Urban. Neither are particularly dangerous but they’re capable of being average #3 & #4 wide outs.

TEs – They’ll do good to combine for 25 yards, so you don’t have to worry about them.

RBs – Edge and Hightower both have 10 receptions so far. Hightower has the better YPC (9.2 vs 7.3) and he’s the more dangerous of the two.

If you look at most depth charts they’re defense is presented as a 4-3 but their defense really isn’t either one (if that makes any sense). They like to call their defense a ‘hybrid 3-4’ where some of the time the ROLB (Travis LaBoy) has his hand on the ground like a DE and the front looks like a 4-3. Other times that look more like the traditional 3-4 and they do blitz the opposite OLB like he’s 3-4 OLB. Overall it’s very confusing but ultimately I’d say they line up in both but they’re more of a 3-4 than a 4-3.