Arizona Cardinals

The Cowboys have lost their starting left tackle for the season.

Paris Johnson suffered a torn biceps and will miss the rest of the season, coach Mike LaFleur announced today.

“I feel for him, obviously,” LaFleur said. “It sucks. It sucks for him, first and foremost, it sucks for the Arizona Cardinals, our offense, this team. But NFL football, here we are in October, show goes on.”

Johnson stayed in the game and played through the injury on Sunday against the Giants, but testing today revealed that it was significant.

The Cardinals selected Johnson with the sixth overall pick in the 2023 NFL draft and he’s been their starting left tackle since. The Cardinals picked up Johnson’s fifth-year option and he is due a guaranteed salary of $19.7 million in 2027.

For first-year players, a 17-game season means eventually hitting the so-called rookie wall. Cardinals running back Jeremiyah Love is preparing for that reality.

His postgame comments from Sunday suggest it has possibly already happened.

Love tiptoed around the question of whether the ankle he sprained in the preseason is still bothering him. On multiple occasions during his session with reporters after the 36-24 loss to the Giants, Love said it isn’t. Still, his full remarks (which lasted less than five minutes) oozed with the idea that he’s already worn down after only four regular-season games.

“Not really bothering me,” he said when asked about the ankle, “kind of just a managing because, you know, we got a long season. Coaches don’t want to overload me, so not necessarily, like, bothering me to the point where I can’t play, because I can go out there and play regardless of whether it’s bothering me, like, I gotta go out there and put something on my opportunity to put us in the best position to have success, but it . . . it was all right. It was all right.”

While he understands the importance of pacing himself, he doesn’t like having his workload managed.

“It’s frustrating because, you know, I’m the type of guy that’s going to, you know, do anything for my team to have success,” Love said. “Like, so I’m gonna be out there despite, you know, how I’m feeling, but my coaches care about me. They care about everybody on this team. So they’re not gonna put you out there if you’re not in the best position to go out there and, you know, do what you need to do and be yourself.

“So it’s frustrating for me personally. I’m not frustrated with the coaches. I’m really frustrated with myself because, you know, like, I just want to be good. I want to be 100 percent, you know, and I want to go out there and do what I need to do. I’m not saying I’m not 100 percent, but, like, I’m not where I want to be. Like, I’m not able to go out there and do spectacular plays every single time, or do stuff like that. So I’m just frustrated with myself, not with the coaches, but they’re doing a great job of managing me.”

Is it because of the ankle?

“No, it’s not really just my ankle,” Love said. “It’s more of just the whole thing. It’s been a long year for me. Like, [my] body sometimes is down. Somebody [is] sometimes tired. So, like, it’s just managing those things. Like, coaches know that. Like, this is probably gonna be the longest year of my life. You know, and I just want to manage that workload. So today, you know, just obviously making sure to keep an eye on me, managing me. But I didn’t go out there and hurt anything or anything like that. It’s just, you know, they’re doing what they need to do to keep me up so that I can finish the season.”

That included playing only 11 snaps in the second half and not being on the field in crunch time. Instead, Tyler Allgeier was in the backfield.

“Then again, like I say, like they even put people in the best position have success,” Love said. “You know, me going out there, um, feeling like how I feel, like, you know, I would probably just hamper the team if I’m going out there and I’m not feeling like myself. So why not put somebody else out there? It’s, you know, that’s playing at a better, just physical, like, physically they’re playing better. And I accept that, you know. Like, I’m not gonna go out there and I’m honest with my coaches. Like, they asked me, ‘Can you go out there and do this, do this, and that?’ And I’d be like, ‘I feel pretty good, but I think Tyler can, or Bam [Knight] can do — can exert themselves a little bit more. So that’s kind of, you know, how it is. Like I said, my coaches care about me. I’m not hurt or anything like that. It’s really just managing me.”

Love had 30 snaps on Sunday. Allgeier had 36. Love finished with 14 carries for 62 yards; Allgeier had eight for 42.

Whatever the reason, Love isn’t consistently where he’d like to be. It seems that the ankle is still something of an issue, even if he insists it isn’t.

Officially, it’s not the ankle. Although Love was limited throughout the practice week before the regular-season opener against the Chargers, Love has not appeared on the injury report since then.

The NFL has issued a pair of suspensions to officials after incidents with players during Sunday’s games.

The league has suspended referee Adrian Hill one game and line judge Jeff Seeman for two games for unprofessional conduct. The suspensions were issued by NFL vice president of officiating Ramon George.

Hill was knocked over by Vikings linebacker Eric Wilson while Wilson was being blocked by Dolphins running back Ollie Gordon through the whistle. Hill got up and got in Wilson’s face while yelling at him to get back to his team’s huddle. Wilson was not penalized on the play.

Cameras caught Seeman saying “f—k you” twice to Cardinals tight end Trey McBride after McBride complained about the lack of a flag for pass interference during Arizona’s loss to the Giants. The NFL Players Association called Seeman’s response “unacceptable” in a statement to PFT on Sunday.

On any given Sunday of NFL games, expect the unexpected.

Week 4 resulted in an unexpected exchange between line judge Jeff Seeman and Cardinals tight end Trey McBride.

It happened after a non-call of pass interference late in the Cardinals-Giants game. It looked like a fairly clear foul. McBride made his case to Seeman. And while the cameras and microphones captured nothing McBride said, a CBS camera on the sidelines showed Seeman apparently saying to McBride, “Fuck you.” Twice.

NFL Players Association executive director JC Tretter issued a statement calling Seeman’s behavior “unacceptable” and expressing hope that the league will hold the officials to the same standard that is applied to the players.

Via Sam Neumann of Awful Announcing, CBS reporter Aditi Kinkhabwala witnessed the interaction. She heard no profanity from McBride.

“I was standing right there,” Kinkhabwala said on Twitter. “What’s wild is that it all started with Trey McBride saying ‘please’ when pleading his case for a PI flag. He was heated for sure, but I never heard a curse from him. The harshest he got was, ‘You’re ruining the game.’”

It was a bad call, to be sure. The latest in a recent epidemic of erroneous calls and non-calls of pass interference. The point is that, as players, coaches, and officials interact after such decisions are made, certain lines shouldn’t be crossed.

If McBride had said to Seeman what Seeman apparently said to McBride, there surely would have been consequences. During the Fail Mary misadventure of 2012, the NFL issued multiple fines to coaches for their conduct toward replacement officials.

The league has said it will review the situation. There’s not much that needs to be reviewed, however. The eye in the sky doesn’t lie, and it doesn’t take extensive lip-reading skills to understand what Seeman said to McBride.

The Giants entered Sunday’s game with a chip on their shoulder. They were 2.5-point underdogs at home to the Cardinals.

The Cardinals?!

The Giants won 36-24 and offered a sharp rebuke to oddsmakers and naysayers.

“It’s dumb. It’s dumb to be underdogs at home, especially when you’re a good football team,” Giants running back Cam Skattebo said, via Jordan Raanan of ESPN. “When people want to bet against you at your own place and you have a team coming from a six-hour flight on a time change, it’s a pretty brutal feeling as a team when you feel you’re put underneath them. We came out here and handled business.”

The Giants are 3-0 at home, 3-1 overall and in first place in the NFC East.

The Giants?!

The Cardinals went into their previous 15 games as underdogs, and quarterback Jacoby Brissett had been an underdog in 25 games in a row.

“We talked about it as a team. I think we were underdogs with them coming into our house,” Skattebo said. “I think that was kind of BS. This is our home. This is our house. These guys love each other. They know we have to protect our castle. They got it done. We got it done -- 3-0 at home is pretty good.”

During Sunday’s game between the Cardinals and the Giants, CBS camera caught an interaction between line judge Jeff Seeman and Arizona tight end Trey McBride.

We’ll defer to the lip readers in the crowd to interpret. We have a feeling that Seeman didn’t say, “Thank you.” (Twice.)

The moment got the attention of NFL Players Association executive director JC Tretter.

Said Tretter, in a statement provided to Football Night in America before he thereafter posted it on social media: “This kind of behavior from an official towards a player is unacceptable. Players are consistently held accountable when the roles are reversed. We expect the NFL to hold officials to the same standard.”

An NFL spokesperson tells PFT that the league will look into the matter.

The Jameis Winston Experience struck again on Sunday, but the Giants were able to overcome giveaways to defeat the Cardinals, 30-24.

Winston and the Giants got off to a bit of a slow start in the first half. But the quarterback then got the offense in the end zone with a 12-yard touchdown pass to Malachi Fields and a 25-yard touchdown to Malik Nabers.

The Giants held a 19-17 lead at halftime and went down 24-19 when the Cardinals scored on a 2-yard pass from Jacoby Brissett midway through the third quarter.

But Winston then connected with Theo Johnson for an 11-yard touchdown, giving New York a three-point lead late in the third quarter. And Dominic Zvada hit a 52-yard field goal with just over two minutes left in the contest to extend the lead to six.

The Cardinals had a great chance to take the lead at the end of the contest, but New York’s defense kept Arizona out of the end zone and put an exclamation point on the victory. On fourth-and-goal from the 4, Deonte Banks picked off Brissett’s pass to Michael Wilson, returning it 98 yards for a touchdown.

Winston ended the contest 18-of-29 for 250 yards with three touchdowns and two interceptions. Nabers led with six catches for 112 yards and a TD.

On the other side, Brissett was 21-of-35 for 166 yards with two touchdowns and three interceptions. Wilson has seven catches for 95 yards while Trey McBride was held to just seven catches for 31 yards.

Giants defensive lineman Chauncey Golston (neck), receiver/returner Braxton Berrios (foot), safety Jason Pinnock (concussion) all exited and did not return.

With the win, the Giants are now 3-1 and will take on the Commanders on the road next week.

The Cardinals are now 1-3 and will host the Lions in Week 4.

The Cardinals started Sunday’s game white hot on offense, but everything flipped in the second quarter and now the Giants have a 19-14 lead at halftime.

Marvin Harrison Jr. caught his first touchdown since Week 10 of last season when he hauled in a 12-yard score from Jacoby Brissett to give Arizona an early 7-0 lead. Then Tyler Allgeier put in a 22-yard touchdown on Arizona’s second drive to make the score 14-3.

The Cardinals averaged 9.4 yards per play over their first two possessions, gaining 132 yards to end up with a pair of touchdowns.

But that trend stopped early in the second quarter, with the Giants picking off Brissett on a deep pass to the right.

From there, the Giants took a 19-14 lead with a 50-yard field goal, a 12-yard Jameis Winston touchdown pass, and a 25-yard Winston touchdown to Malik Nabers — who exited the game briefly with an apparent shoulder issue. He was able to return to catch the scoring strike.

But when New York had another opportunity to extend its lead late in the half, Winston threw an interception. Arizona’s Chad Ryland hit a 60-yard field goal to end the second quarter, narrowing New York’s lead to just two points.

The Giants will receive the second-half kickoff.

Cornerback Joey Porter Jr. will make his first appearance of the 2026 season on Sunday.

Porter is active for the Cowboys less than a week after joining the team in a trade with the Steelers. Porter was listed with a back injury while in Pittsburgh, but his contract impasse with the team was seen as the true reason for his inactivity and Porter was not on the injury report for the Cowboys.

Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that Porter is expected to play a limited number of snaps against the Texans in his Cowboys debut, but his presence should be welcomed for a defense that has struggled to find consistency over the first month of the season.

Cowboys at Texans

Cowboys: LB DeMarvion Overshown, CB Cobie Durant, CB Caelen Carson, RB Emari Demercado, LB James Houston, OL Ajani Cornelius, WR Camden Brown

Texans: LB Azeez Al-Shaair, DE Chris Braswell, OL Febechi Nwaiwu, OT Nate Thomas, TE Marlin Klein

Titans at Ravens

Titans: RB Michael Carter, CB Jaylon Jones, G Drew Moss, OT Brandon Crenshaw-Dickson, TE Kylen Granson, DT Jackie Marshall

Ravens: QB Joe Fagnano, LB Trey Hendrickson, WR Chris Moore, DT Aeneas Peebles

Patriots at Bills

Patriots: OT Dametrious Crownover, TE Tanner Arkin, QB Behren Morton, CB Christian Gonzalez, DT Christian Barmore, CB Channing Canada

Bills: WR Skyler Bell, S Jalon Kilgore, CB Christian Benford, LB Mike Danna, G Ar’maj Reed-Adams, OT Jude Bowry, DL T.J. Sanders

Jets at Bears

Jets: WR Adonai Mitchell, RB Breece Hall, CB Nahshon Wright, LB Kiko Mauigoa, LB Kinglsey Enagbare, G Dylan Parham, TE Mason Taylor

Bears: QB Caleb Williams, OL Ozzy Trapilo, CB Cam Lewis, DL Jaydon Loving, DL James Lynch, DL Jamree Kromah

Jaguars at Bengals

Jaguars: CB Montaric Brown, WR C.J. Williams, CB Christian Braswell, S Jalen Huskey, LB Jack Kiser, OL Daniel Faalele, DE Wesley Williams

Bengals: S Bryan Cook, S Kyle Dugger, LB Swayze Bozeman, OL Myles Hinton, WR Colbie Young, DT B.J. Hill, DT Landon Robinson

Cardinals at Giants

Cardinals: QB Carson Beck, CB Starling Thomas, S Dadrion Taylor-Demerson, LB Cameron Robertson, OL Josh Fryar, WR Reggie Virgil

Giants: S Ar’Darius Washington, RB Devin Singletary, CB Nikko Reed, LB Jihad Ward, OL J.C. Davis, TE Thomas Fidone, DL Bobby Jamison-Travis

Rams at Eagles

Rams: WR C.J. Daniels, QB Ty Simpson, CB Cam Lampkin, CB Jaylen Watson, OL Bill Murray, TE Colby Parkinson, DT Aaron Donald

Eagles: WR Hollywood Brown, WR DeVonta Smith, QB Cole Payton, S Marcus Epps, LB Zack Baun, OT Lane Johnson, OL Fred Johnson, TE Dallas Goedert

Packers at Buccaneers

Packers: OL Jacob Monk, G Kevin Zeitler, G Aaron Banks, DT Anthony Campbell

Buccaneers: LB Rueben Bain, QB Baker Mayfield, DB Benjamin Morrison, TE Ko Kieft, OL Luke Haggard, OL Billy Schrauth, DL DeMonte Capehart

On the surface, Sunday’s game between the Cardinals and the Giants brings little if any sizzle to the NFL menu. But there’s a surprising amount of history embedded in the series.

Via NBC Sports research, the two teams first met 100 years ago next month, on November 7, 1926. Today’s game will be the 130th time they’ve squared off.

From 1950 through 2001 (with the exception of 1968 and 1982), they played twice per year. Even after the Cardinals moved to Arizona, they remained in the NFC East for more than a decade.

Since the realignment of the divisions in 2002, they’ve played 11 times. Most recently, they met in 2023. The Giants won that one, 31-28; the Cardinals had won four in a row before that.

A win for the Giants would give them a 3-0 record at home for the first time since 2008. A win for the Cardinals would end a 16-game losing streak against teams that entered the contest with a losing record.

Of the eight games in the 1:00 p.m. ET window, it still doesn’t generate a ton of excitement. But at least we tried.