Getty ImagesHe started his career in Arizona nine years ago. Three years after leaving, linebacker Karlos Dansby is back.
“It’s a blessing to have this opportunity chase a ring with two guys I know I came in with, Darnell Dockett and Larry Fitzgerald,” Dansby told SiriusXM NFL Radio. “Another opportunity to take a stab at it. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, I had to advantage of it just to take a shot at to be a legend, and try to get in that Ring of Honor.”
Dansby said he decided to return to Arizona after being cut by the Dolphins because “[i]t’s comfortable, man.”
“I was already out here working out and training anyway,” Dansby said. “I still had the house out here. I never sold it. Family was here, just had another son. It’s perfect timing, man. It’s the perfect fit and they needed my services. They wanted me back in the building. [G.M.] Steve Keim had a vision. . . . It was a no-brainer, man. They opened their arms to me, and I came back.”
Dansby left the Cardinals after spending two years under the franchise tag. To keep him for a third year, Arizona would have been required to offer him the quarterback tender.
He arrives at a time when the inside linebacker position is in flux, to say the least. Daryl Washington has received a four-game suspension, and he recently was arrested for battery involving a female victim who emerged with a broken collarbone. The Cardinals added LSU linebacker Kevin Minter in the second-round of the 2013 draft.
“I had to advantage of it just to take a shot at to be a legend,”
Uhhhhhh…. what?
He will not make it. My projected cardinals Mt Rushmore:
Kevin Kolb
Bryant Johnson
Buster Davis
Ryan Lindley
He always had high goals
worry about the team first karlos.
Good player
Bringing leadership, heart, and more importantly filling in a whole left by D Washington. Nice to see the Cards new GM Keim being pro-active, unlike previous management. Welcome back to the desert Karlos!
Always with the big talk. Problem is that he hasn’t really backed it up. A good player but hardly elite.
mendenhallfumblemachine: not bad.
Other options for Cardinals Mt. Flushmore:
Steve Pisarkiewicz
Wendell Bryant
Tony Sacca
Anthony Thompson
All first round picks for the Cards. As was Joe Namath, in 1965. Since Namath was drafted, the Cards have chosen the following QB legends in the first round:
Pisarkiewicz
Kelly Stouffer
Timm Rosenbach
Tony Sacca
Matt Leinart
And people wondered why they didn’t take Matt Barkley…
what was the reason he left then?
“what was the reason he left then?”
Wheelbarrow loads of Wayne Huizinga and Steve Ross’s $$$’s – courtesy of William Parcells before he took more wheelbarrow loads of Wayne Huizinga and Steve Ross’s $$$’s into retirement with him.
Gotta be half the public $$$’s Ross is asking for for stadium upgrades. Money well spent. lol
Cards Mt. Rushmore depends on what we’re talking about: the Cards history in AZ or Cards history in general. The Mt. Rushmore of AZ era Cards history:
1)Larry Fitzgerald
2)Adrian Wilson
3)Aeneas Williams
4)Kurt Warner
Honorable Mention: Larry Centers, Pat Tillman
The Mt. Rushmore of all Cards history should be:
1)Larry Fitzgerald
2)Ernie Nevers
3)Dick “Night Train” Lane
4)Charlie Trippi
Honorable Mention: Otis Anderson, Dan Dierdorf, Jim Hart, Jackie Smith, Kurt Warner, Aeneas Williams, Adrian Wilson, Larry Wilson