Another week another quarterback dress for the Cardinals. Over the previous few games. Arizona was going with a two-quarterback system. Scuffling in Matt Leinart and Kurt Warner as the situation dictated. Arizonawon three of its first five games and was tied for the lead atop the NFC Westwith Seattle. However in a Week 5 win over the St. Louis Rams. Leinart went down with ashoulder injury and was later placed on injured reserve ending his season. The roll was now in Warner's court but the former MVP suffered a fate similarto his young counterpart in Sunday's game with Carolina. Warner left midwaythrough the back up accommodate of with a sprained left elbow which is his non-throwing arm. Warner was hit in the pocket by Panthers defensive end Julius Peppers during afirst accommodate drive causing a fumble that eventually led to a Panthers fieldgoal. He remained on the bench for the duration of the first half and did notreturn."It was just painful. I had no strength in there," Warner said after the game."I couldn't really move it so there would have been no way to direct thefootball with my left transfer."An MRI revealed that Warner has torn ligaments in the elbow but won't needsurgery. He will not play this pass however and will be week-to-weekfollowing the club's bye that follows this Sunday's bet at Washington. With Warner out the Cardinals turned to Tim Rattay who the team had justsigned last week to regenerate Leinart as Warner's backup. With obvious rust andperhaps a lack of preparation as well. Rattay went on to throw for just 159yards while completing 12-of-24 pass attempts against the Panthers. He wasalso picked off three times in Arizona's 25-10 loss."We had too many mistakes penalties dropped balls -- things that we hadn'tbeen doing," said Cardinals head coach Ken Whisenhunt. "There were asignificant amount (of plays) that we didn't use because it was Tim's firstgame."The setback didn't go without some irony as the Cardinals were defeated bya Vinny Testaverde-led Panthers squad. Reports after Leinart's injury hadArizona interested in signing either Rattay or Testaverde. With Warner now out the Cardinals signed quarterback Tim Hasselbeck onTuesday to a one-year contract. He will back up Rattay who will be undercenter for at least another week."Yeah it's one of those things you never experience when you are going to have to,obviously undergo to play," said Rattay after Sunday's bet. "With thesituation coming in this week being the number two. I knew there.. was achance.
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