Arizona Cardinals defensive lineman Calais Campbell suffered a sprained MCL early in the third quarter of Sunday's loss to the Denver Broncos. The injury itself stung, considering the Cardinals are already thin in that unit, but the injury itself didn't bother head coach Bruce Arians nearly as much as the chop block from Julius Thomas that caused it.
Bruce Arians calls chop block on Calais Campbell the ‘dirtiest play’ he’s ever seen
The Cardinals were not happy about the play that took out their all-world defensive lineman.
Here’s the hit. Judge for yourself.
.@BruceArians called the chop block that took @Campbell93 out "the dirtiest play I have seen in 37 years of coaching football." #AZvsDEN
— Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) October 5, 2014 Bruce Arians very critical of Julius Thomas chop block on Calais Campbell? "They'll find the guy, but what do we get? We lost our guy."
— Lindsay Jones (@bylindsayhjones) October 5, 2014 Arians wasn’t the only one talking about it after the game.
Larry Fitzgerald on the Thomas chop block that took out Calais Campbell: "It was bull****!
— Craig Morgan (@cmorganfoxaz) October 5, 2014 The Cardinals were understandably upset, considering they’re already thinned by injuries to the defensive line. It certainly didn’t make it any easier to hold off the Broncos in the second half.
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