Summer is over, school starts in my part of the Valley on Monday. It means football season is here!
The Cardinals are supposed to be in the Super Bowl. Todd Graham and Rich Rodriguez are flying below the radar in the Pac-12 South, and the Arizona high school scene has a couple of potential future NFL players.
Putting the hype aside, the Cardinals season figures to be interesting on many fronts. Is this the beginning of the end of the Carson Palmer era in Arizona, or is this the start of a couple of Super Bowl seasons? 
Chandler Jones is in a contract year following Von Millers mega, mega deal in Denver. He can hit the lottery with a big showing on the field…
I am most interested in seeing the next steps for Larry Fitzgerald. Super Bowl or not, the Fitzgerald story has the deepest roots with the community. In a market filled with NFL fans, not necessarily Cardinal supports, Fitz is loved by all who follow the sport. Cowboy, Packer, Bronco, Seahawk, Patriot and the other 26 teams fan base admire him. I’ve never heard a negative word uttered from a fan about Fitzgerald. Winning a Super Bowl for Fitzgerald would be a good theme to the season…
You have to have a certain level of luck to win big in the NFL. The Cardinals avoided injuries to key people until late in the 2015 season. They are going to have to be lucky…
The NFC West has produced three of the last four NFC Super Bowl teams. It’s no cake walk. I think the LA Rams are going to give teams in the West more than a bit of trouble. Seattle is Seattle. The Cardinals? Let’s see how Carson Palmer looks, no one can be sure…
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Brad Cesmat
Media personality Brad Cesmat first rose to fame in Southern California with the launching of "The Mighty 690" all-sports radio station in the late 1980's and early 90's. Brad came to Arizona in 1993 to begin a 10-year run at KTAR Radio followed by nine years at KTVK-TV in Phoenix. Brad is the Founder/ CEO of Sports360AZ.com. His vision of multi platform content marketing through sports began in September of 2011. Cesmat has served on the Advisory Board for the Salvation Army for the last 18 years. He and his wife Chris have four children.