Carson Palmer had possibly his worst career game on Sunday, and he’s dealing with the letdown of it all on Monday.
Palmer turned the ball over six times in Arizona’s 49-15 loss at Carolina in the NFC Championship game, and he feels like he let everyone down.
“It comes as such an abrupt ending,” Palmer said, via ProFootballTalk’s Michael David Smith. “To be so excited, and have so much going for you, and all of a sudden it just stops. It’s tough on us, it’s tough on our fans, and I think that’s the part that hurts the most. You just feel like you let your fans down, you let your teammates down. We want to keep playing and we can’t.”
Coach Bruce Arians defended Palmer on Sunday after the game, saying it wasn’t his fault the Cardinals lost and his bum finger wasn’t a factor in his performance.
There was a lot of reckoning in the Cardinals locker room after the game, with Larry Fitzgerald near tears after the defeat. Palmer doesn’t seem to have taken the loss much better. It’s one thing to lose such a big game, but losing in such a comprehensive thrashing can alter career arcs. What will this team look like in 2016?
