GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) – Carson Palmer will turn 37 before the coming football season is over and he sure doesn’t look or act like someone closing in on the end of his career.
Speaking before the Cardinals’ first training camp workout on Friday, Palmer said he feels “as good as I’ve felt ever.”
It helps that he’s surrounded by talent on a team he believes should be better than the one that went 13-3, won the NFC West and made it to the NFC championship game last season.
“I love what I see, absolutely,” he said. “There’s a lot of good football players in that locker room and guys recognize it and I think that’s really important because a lot of times you can have young guys that don’t quite realize the opportunity. But we have guys that realize that we have something special going on.”
Coach Bruce Arians said that when he and Palmer joined the Cardinals in 2013, he figured the quarterback’s window of opportunity was five years.