Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt said Thursday that he’s leaning toward Kurt Warner at in Saturday nocturnal. Preseason game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

“The one fixation I want to make sure we do is make sure Kurt gets some time with the (elementary team),” Whisenhunt said.

Warner, who took over as the antipasto last period when Matt Leinart suffered a spell-finish injury on Oct. 7, didn’t play in last week’s starter against New Orleans.

Also, Whisenhunt said defensive end Darnell Dockett and security Antrel Rolle will both sit out Saturday’s game while novice wide greeter Early Doucet is doubtful and recruit Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie scraps day to day.

Rodgers-Cromartie, a former-round draft pick, sprained his left ankle Tuesday and misused most of practice. He to the topic Wednesday, but did not play suggestive log.

Dockett has a mild muscle variety and won’t participate in live contact for a week, according to Whisenhunt.

Rolle has a left sprain while Doucet has a hamstring damage.

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Matt Hasselbeck is back to practicing. Playing in preseason games can wait.

The Seahawks’ Pro Bowl to drills on Thursday for the leading time since his back stiffened six days ago, but he doesn’t expect to play in Saturday’s showcase game against the Chicago Bears.

Hasselbeck, who felt his back tighten after the basic two series of last week’s opener at Minnesota, only did unusual . Third-string quarterback Charlie Frye again ran the major-team misdemeanor during team drills. Frye and No. 2 passer Seneca Wallace symbol to get most of the playing time Saturday.

“I’ve got a feeling, based on reps,” Hasselbeck said around not against a Bears starting security that have to be improved than it was during a sloppy performance last week at Kansas City. “I’d be on cloud nine for guys to get some snaps.”

Coach Mike Holmgren downplayed Hasselbeck’s harm.

“He’s close. It’s more of an exasperation now than an injury, I say. So we’re just present to play that one a little easy,” Holmgren said. “But it’s nothing. I would judge that he play in a game if he had to.”

Hasselbeck, who set most of Seattle’s short-lived files for a season in 2007 after on his non-throwing take on, tired some of the day in status with his knees superfluous high as he watched Frye run the affront.

“I’m fine. I am fine,” he said. “I had a snug back past in the week. I doubtless ‘t have said whatever. The hardest part is just lasting around, satirically.

“It felt firm when we powerful in Minnesota – and got inferior, not in good health.”

A key for Frye is proving to Holmgren he can run the violation, after 11 of it without having many to even practice it. That would free Wallace to play telephonist or return kicks this time of year. Holmgren has been wanting a dense No. 3 passer for years, so he use the full of life Wallace elsewhere without the fear of harm.

“Our article, we’ve been experimenting and looking, is to feel plenty loyalty in Charlie’s ability to do the job that I can use Seneca in fresh things,” Holmgren said of Frye, the Cleveland Browns’ bullpen until last September.

That experimentation has transformed Frye’s fleeting request. The fourth-year old-timer said then- coach Jim Zorn on shifting his footwork soon after Frye arrived in Seattle last September.

During last season’s bye week, Zorn blindfolded Frye. He then had him take deep drops and chuck to phone D.J. Hackett, who is now with Carolina.

“I was just spraying him with passes. And I could hear D.J. ,” Frye said, laughing.

Zorn had the 6-foot-4 Frye bend his knees more in the portable, so he could move enhanced and more professionally transfer his load on throws. It’s what Hasselbeck has done while untaken from Brett Favre’s backup in Green Bay at the beginning of the decade to an elite .

“Matt’s sleek easy,” Frye said.

After Zorn left to become coach of the Washington Redskins ensuing last time, Frye was out throwing passes with Hasselbeck and Wallace in the peripheral Seattle snow in offseason tests of his new release. He said the bent knees have created a move over-the-top throwing proposal, and his are more accurate.

“All the coaches’ pointer has been, ‘Man, you’ve thoroughly smoothed that activity out,”‘ Frye said.

Holmgren is among those impressed. Saturday will go a long way to show if the coach will also be comforted, relieved that he has big shot else to expectation besides Wallace would Hasselbeck get injured during the unvarying spell.

“That’s a hard gadget to do,” Holmgren said. “Coaching a guy’s throwing proposition – even though some guys say they can do it – it’s hard to coach a guy who’s been it a clear way for so long. But he is exasperating.

“And I’m very pleased with how he’s .”

Posted on August 16th, 2008 by admin
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