Al as usual volkswagen postgame follows. Bob, tony and mike breaking it down. A look to thursday night in green bay. First things first. First and ten. 37 yard line. Cards 18 straight gains. Theyve won with a make it 28. Longest current streak in the league. They keep that one rolling. Bernard gets a ay. Hes i iide the 40. And to the 32 yard line. And already cincinnati in field goal range but thinking about a lot more right now. Right there by giovani bernard, one on one against kevin minter. Minter can get him coming out when he has to block him. But the other side, equally a mismatch. Giovani bernard. You just wonder are they going to start thinking about too many blitzes. Al 30 yard gain. Dalton goes over 300 yards. On the sideline intended for green. Recovered there by bethel. Second down. Nugent keeping warm on the sideline. Cris mike nugents not been one of the most consistent kickers. Any more if your not over 0. 500 youre not any good. Al peterson just cant get second down and ten at the 33. Game clolo at three. That is marvin jones making the catch about three yards shy of the first down. Cris well, there you are. Now youve got the big moment in the game because you picked this up. You can basically contntl the clock the rest of the way out. If you dont, you got to try a long field goal. Al third and two. Down the sideline and broken up and incomplete. Bethel was there, got a hand on it. Green is pleading his case. Cris a. J. Green jchltj. Green is on it. Hit the pylon, though. Al bethel is there. He winds up with the ball. Everything goes flying there. Cris yep. Al bounced off his shoulder pad, and then hes out. Cris good call. W big kick. Al so this will be a 43 yard attempt. Cincinnati bench trying to get new york to look at it, but they already have. Now youve got the play clock runnininout. Did thth get a timeout. Referee second charged timeout. Al they did. Referee 30 second timeout. Al you had the bench saying look at the green play, which they did. Cris once you kick that pylon, though, it takes care of that. Peterson, nobody more competitive than that guy. Here he is with the game on the line and he cant participate. Al everything flying around there, pylon, stuff inside the pylon pylon. 43 yarattempt to tie the game. Kevin huber holds. Mike nugent from 43. And that will tie the game with 63 seconds. Ararona will get the balal but they will not have a timeout. Cris like how do you practice for a threefoot putt to win the masters . You get in these situations, youre the hero or the fwoet. That was a really solid kick by nugent. Al 3131. Back come the bengals. No wax wings for these guys tonight. Cris now you know Carson Palmer would love to stick it to his old team one time here. Hes going to have an opportunity. Not an e ey one without the timeouts. But this is a sophisticated offense and Carson Palmer a veteran player has been brilliant in these situations so far this year. Al l idwell, president ofofhe team, steve keim, the gm. Mike brown on the other side. All these guys through the wringer tonight. Cris wonder if mike had those ear plugs in when he was talking to Carson Palmer . D the kick. Run back by david johnson. Good coverage. You can bring it back only to the 16 yard line peerman gets the tackle. 68 seconds and no timeouts. Cris you want to go down and get the field goal and win this game, but at the same time you dont want to take too many big chances. This is a time when maybe an Andre Ellington coming out of the backfield, get a couple e drive stararrs going, then hustle to the line of scrimmage. He is sort of their giovani bernard. Al ellington in the backfield. Palmer. Over the middle. Out to the 34 yard line. J. J. Nelson makes the catch on his breakout night. Hustle to the line of scririage. To the 35 yard line. Fires. Fitzgerald. Larry will get out of bounds throwing the ball out of bounds to stop the clock. And just like that, theyre into cincinnati territory. Catanzaro loosening up. Cris one on one against leon hall. Theyre getting close now. For the other guy to give credit to, bobbie massie. Hes done a good job on dunlap on this one. Al at the 47 yard line. 34 seconds. Fires. Fitzgerald into field goal range. O to the 26. Now he wants to spike the ball. Stops the clock. Clock ticking down to 20. And a first down at the 26 yard line. So already kattano would be a 18, 19 and 20 yard completions from the arm of Carson Palmer. Cris there are a lot of people w w thought maybe Larry Fitzgerald was washed up. He had knee and various injuries the last couple of years and all of a sudden now, when it matters most, hes been huge this year. Heres massie on the outside against dunlap. Gotttt it done tonight. Al eight catches tonight for him for 90 yards respect third and final timeout. Cincinnati. Al its last timeout. Ill tell you what, hes given us a couple of throws. They w last night. 62 points total in this one as they try to get to 82. Cris and i volunteer to come back to arizona any time you want. Al youre in. Here. Al and lewis has watched his team giving up 31 already tonight. Cris what about those plays called by bruce arians. E, two, three, righthtown the field in field goal range. Al take a kneel down here. And then hell spike it here. Good idea to try to kick a field goal on a third down. Cris oops. Al oh, boy, thats not what you wanted. But theyre going to call this one on cincinnati. Cris they are. And i think theyre gog say that they were simulating the count. Al that will stop the clock with six seconds. So this would make it about a 40 yard field goal if indeed the call is on cincinnati. Referee unsportsmanlike conduct, defense number 94, calling signals out. False start. T. Halfway distance to the goal. Al more than a five yard penalty. Half the distance here. Simulated a count and that will make it a field goal for the win. Cris only because the umpire in the final couple of minutes moves in behd, he can hear whats going on. Now, when hes othe other side of the ball. Uhuh. Right away. He knew exactly what happened. He heard it. Great piece of officiating. Al this makes it a 32 yard attempt for catanzaro to, in officially one second remaining in the game. Cris best offense in the League Tonight against the best defense. And it was the best offense winning out. Clutch kicks on both sides. Al fitzgeralds reaction. Theres another big, big, big game for him. Look at that. A. J. Green can onlnllook and watch his team go down to its second Straight Defeat after starting the season 80. Cris so close. A. J. Green was so close to that tip by justin bethel. Al still need one more play to end the game. One of those bouncing kickoffs, you would assu. Boy, that makes for a long ride home, doesnt it, you lose a game like that . Cris and that call was so significant. If it had been on ted larsen, then theyre b bk there on the brink of field goal range. Instead a huge penalty. And ends up like an extra point. Al a 44 yard attempt is what theyre setting up for. And it winds up to be a 32 yard attempt. So catanzaro. Will send a ground ball to the 30 yard line. Now you see a bunch of laterals here. Sanu has it. The forward pass. Ruled a legal pass. Bernard will try and throw it ay. Sooner or lateteyou would think, but who knows . And they have now whistled it back at the 29 yard line. Wild one. Started out pretty slow first half, but the second half was crazy. And the cardinals go 82 and lead their division by three. The Pittsburgh Steelers are pretty happy about this. All of a sudden theyre kind of back in the division hunt, down by two with a game yet to play against the bengals. Volkswagen postgame report final score 3431 cardinals. Welcome to the Volkswagen Passat post game report. Here now bob costas. Another good one on sunday night. Arizona wins it. Virtually a lastsecond field goal. 31. They won four in a row. Cincinnati has lost two straight for the first time in more than two years. Both these teams are 82. Here are the game balls. Carson palmer gets one. The game started slowly for him. Threw a couple of picks early but winds upupetter than 300 yards and 4 touchdowns. Rookie j. J. Nelson makes four catches and they were all productive. Deone bucannon. Well also give a game ball to Patrick Peterson who did a good job on a. J. Green but hes left out of the interview process because, after all, wed like to clear out of h xe before midnight at least local time. So heres michele. Michele carson, congratulations. It was another, you know, nailbiter. On that final drive, the connections with larry. Take us through that. What happened . Well, you know, if theres a guy youre going to pick out and throw to when it counts, i think hes the one. He just did a great job getting open. His number happened to be called on those and theheoverage dictated the ball went his way. Made great plays. Very different halves. Bruce arians told me you were trying to push some things. Second half not so much. What changed . Just settled down, really. I just made two really stupid plays. Just kind of got the jitters out and we caught fire the second half. You came into this game saying this is not just any game. Youre playing against your former team. We all know the story there about how it didnt end well. How much sweeter is this one . Well, its just a great win. To stop that offense the way we did, get the ball and go down into the game we did, get the field goal, big hit for kevin to hit that ball. Thats a great team on the other side of the field and just happy to get out of our own stadium. Our crowd was amazing today. Electric. The roof was closed, it couldnt have been louder. A great team win. But personally a little bit nicer . No doubt t eres obviously a little extra on the game. But i couldnt be happier to win the way we did and move on to san fran. Congratulations. Thank you. Turn to one of your rookie, y. J. Nelson who had your first what did it mean to o u on a night when michael couldnt come up. Coach said, we dont have no dropouts. I just rose to the occasion. Have big shoes to fi, michael floyd. I decided to pick up where he left off. Indeed you did. Congratulations. Thank you. Lets turn to Deone Bucannon who had a sack and fumble recovery. How difficult was this offense to match up with . First and foremost, an opportunity to play this game. And their offense is tough, you know. They have a lot of different weapons. Their running back, had two different running backs that are both grade a running backs. One of the best receivers in the game. But we also have one of the best corners in the game. He did a great job on a. J. Green all game. I feel like we matchup well. When andy dalton here, Carson Palmer here. A good team win. Congratulations. Thank you, appreciate it. Bob . Lets bring in tony dungy. After cincinnati ties the game at 31, with a little more than a minute to play and no timeouts, it takes arizona six plays to ver about 70 yards. How are they able e do that with such ease . Well, bob, it would be easy to blame that on cincinnati having injures in the secondary, but that wasnt the case at all. As you heard Carson Palmer say they went to fitzgerald, leon hall was matched up on him. And twice in mantoman coverage fitzgerald won. Thats what this drive was all about. Going to your best player when the game was on the line. Fitzgerald delivered. He and Carson Palmer that made that drive happy. And Larry Fitzgerald didnt even get a game ball and he had a whale of a game. He really did. Ahead of green bay for the two seed as things stand in the nfc. Panthers sititng comfortably at number one. How do you see it playing out . This was a huge win for the cardinals because it does keep them a game ahead of green bay and minnesota for that bye in the first round. Arizona has the advantage e because they play both m mnesota and green bay later on in the season at home in arizona. So i think theyre going to hold on and get that secure that number two spot, but this is a big, big step for them tonight. Tony, thanks. Over now to mike florio, pro football talk. Mike, switching the focus to denver, where we will be next sunday night. The patrts will be in town for that one. What do you think the broncos are going to do at quarterback . After the win today in chchago, coach gary kubiak was noncommittal abo who the quarterback would be, but then he praised Brock Osweiler who in game. And no turnovers. Osweiler with none in that victory victory. With Peyton Manning, the focus was to get as much as he could. At a time when plenty of people are assuming that this will be Peyton Mannings last season im told he currently intends to play in 2016 even if its not for the Denver Broncos. I heard you sayayhat earlier tonight. That raised some eyebrows. Thats a story well be following. Cardinals 34, bengals 31, al and cris to wrap things up after this. Ng. Of course. Dont forget grandpa. Can the test drive be over now . Maybe just head back to the dealership . Dont you want to meet my family . Yep, totally. But we still need your signature. The sign then drive event. Zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on a new jetta and other select vovoswagen models. Its the final countdwwn the final countdown ififoure the band europe, you love a final countdown. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Im ththkful for helping hands. And for thth wonderful time oyear at brings us all together. 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And the nice thing is that Aaron Rodgers had the kind of day today thats going to silence a little bit of, oh, is his arm hurt, whats going on with this offense. So everything is back on track. Well jump on a bird, not a turkey, well jump on a plane and our game in denver next sunday night. Who knows. New england, they win tomorrow, theyre undefeated against the Denver Broncos with all kinds of stuff going on. You just wonder did Brock Osweiler do enough, if in fact, Peyton Manning is healthy, to retain that job . Its crazy that were sitting here talking about it, but in that offense with that mobility maybe os while ser the guy. Could be Brady Manning 17 or Brady Manning 16 1 1. Stay tuned. See you next week. Until then al michaels, cris collinsworth, Michele Tafoya and our entire gang with fred godelli down in the truck and kelly hayeye kenny hurt, the whwhe gang, melissa hortrt. Glendale, arizona. 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