Minnesota Vikings Prove Arizona Cardinals Made Huge Mistake with Kevin Kolb

Football 101:

When you give an untested quarterback a five-year, $64 million contract, you might be playing with fire.

When you trade for said untested quarterback and give up a second-round draft choice and a good corner, you might be playing with fire.

The Arizona Cardinals broke open the lighter fluid this past summer, soaked themselves down and got themselves one Kevin Kolb from the Philadelphia Eagles. It was a move that could be either genius or pure stupidity. Just don't light a match near these guys.

Kolb is making the organization look pretty damn dumb thus far in this 1-4 fiasco of a start to the 2011 season. Kolb would have had to been a lot better to look bad in that 34-10 drubbing Sunday by the previously winless and embarrassingly pitiful Vikings.

The Cardinals didn't just lose that game, they were punked by the Vikings—of all teams. These same Vikings couldn't hold big halftime leads against the Lions and Buccaneers, and Donovan McNabb was looking like an escapee from a Minneapolis retirement home.

So that speaks volumes about this latest and very awful loss by the bumfungling birds from Arizona.

Kolb was plenty awful himself. He was 21-of-42 for 232 yards and completed two more to the guys in purple. That's not the kind of performance that $64-million quarterbacks are supposed to put on. With those two picks, Kolb turned the football over three times.

Someone was sold on Kolb, and that someone was head coach Ken Wisenhunt; and the way things are going, he may have to change his name to: Wisen-on-the-hunt for a new job. The Cards are now 3-13 under Wisenhunt in their last 16 games, and the way this season is progressing, or should we say regressing, this team is making it's way toward that No. 1 pick in the 2012 draft.

Now that's where things could really get interesting. You've bumped your head on the trade block when you got Kolb, then forked out the gross domestic product of a small country with the contract you gave him.

So if the Cards are sitting there next April in the No. 1 spot, what would they do?

That's still a long way off, and this season is rapidly slipping away from the Cardinals, Kolb and Wisenhunt.

Losing is one thing; losing to the hapless Vikings is another.

Scoring only 10 points in the process makes it all the worse.

The Cards have a bye weekend coming up, and word out of Vegas has it that the bye is a three-point favorite.