It’s been a bumpy road for the Cardinals and Patrick Peterson, but the star cornerback says he’ll stay the course. After Sunday’s contest against the Browns, P2 said it won’t be his final game in Arizona.
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“This won’t be my last home game here,” Peterson said. “I’ll be back.”
Peterson, 29, has just one year to go on the five-year, $70MM extension he inked back in 2014. If Peterson was unhappy and the Cardinals wanted to go in a different direction, the club could theoretically drop him to save $12.55MM against just $634K in dead money.
However, the veteran appears to be content and he’s been performing well on an individual level. On Sunday, he came away with an interception in the end zone in the first quarter and would have gotten a second INT late in the game had he not landed out of bounds after catching a pass from Baker Mayfield. He also contained Odell Beckham Jr. when it mattered most, helping the Cards come away with a 38-24 win.
“That’s my first time ever going up against Odell,” said Peterson. “It was a pleasure. One fellow Tiger against another. It was a fun matchup. It was a fun game. I knew I was going to have a couple of opportunities with Baker being the gunslinger he is. I wanted to make the best of the opportunities when they came towards me.”
Of course, with one year to go on his deal and his 30th birthday on the horizon in July, Peterson is eyeing another lucrative extension.
Maybe you should actually watch some Cardinal games before you declare that Peterson has been performing well on an individual level”, Zach. He’s actually played like crap since he came back, displaying a lack of enthusiasm for the game that has only been rivaled by his inability to cover or tackle. HE may want to be back, but it remains to be seen if management wants him back. And the majority of the fan base won’t miss him at all if he leaves.
They good ole “EYE TEST” over the metrics strikes again. We need more of you guys to keep disproving what the numbers say, with your eyes.
We will take him in KC
All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth and that idiot Peterson to take a vow of silence.