TEMPE, Ariz. - The Arizona Cardinals have the NFLs best record at 7-1, but the offence has sputtered at times, turning it on when it was most needed, usually in the fourth quarter.I keep hearing about this roll were on, quarterback Carson Palmer said Wednesday. I dont think weve hit it yet. Its nice to win a bunch of games in a row, but we would really like to pick up some steam on offence and have a handful of those games where you just explode and really catch that roll and then youre firing on all cylinders.If the Cardinals are an eight-cylinder engine, theyre firing on probably six, Palmer said.I think weve done some good things, he said. Weve played against some good defences and beat some good teams, but in no way are we satisfied and in no way do we think this is all we have to do to win a Super Bowl.Despite the offensive inconsistencies, Palmer is playing some of the best football of his 12-year NFL career.He is 5-0 as a starter, completing 62 per cent of his passes for 1,385 yards and 11 touchdowns with only two interceptions. Palmer has thrown for multiple touchdowns in five straight games — the last four after coming back from a nerve injury in his throwing shoulder that sidelined him for three games. He has at least one TD toss in a career-best 18 consecutive contests. In his last 14 starts, Arizona is 12-2.The offence, though, ranks just 23rd in the league at 330.4 yards per game. The Cardinals are 16th in passing and 28th in rushing.Coach Bruce Arians, though said, The running game is fine.It has picked up recently, with Andre Ellington, despite a nagging foot injury, gaining 95 yards on 21 carries last week at Dallas. Ellington certainly has drawn the attention of St. Louis coach Jeff Fisher, whose Rams play at Arizona on Sunday.The little back is special and hes great out of the backfield, Fisher said. He has great vision and hes quick and they did a nice job with the run game.As usual, Arians had a blunt answer when asked about the offences inconsistencies in the 28-17 win at Dallas.Catch the ball. Real simple, just catch the ball, he said. We dropped five balls. Again that cost us. Its been critical now for three weeks. The drops are amazing sometimes.But Palmer brushed aside the dropped passes issue.Thats part of the game, he said. Footballs get dropped, passes get missed, blocks get missed, tackles get missed. Not a concern at all.Penalties have sometimes been a problem, too.In the third quarter against Dallas, the Cardinals had potential drives stall thanks to a holding penalty on tight end John Carlson, who also had a few dropped passes, and a chop block against centre Lyle Sendlein.In the fourth quarter, though, all seems well.Through three quarters this season, Arizona and its opponents each have scored 132 points. In the fourth quarter, the Cardinals have outscored its foes 70-34.There are statistics that point to other successes.In four trips to the red zone against Dallas, Arizona scored four touchdowns.The Cardinals rank fifth in the league in third-down efficiency, converting 45.38 per cent of the time. The last three games, that figure rose to 53.19 per cent. Against Dallas, Arizona converted nine of 15 third-down opportunities.Thats the beauty of being able to take some shots because you trust him (Palmer) to move the chains, Arians said. We did a nice job. I was really pleased with our red zone and third-down production the other day, not necessarily the two third-and-ones as much as third-and-six and third-and-10. Those have been problems.All four of the Cardinals touchdowns against Dallas came on third down.Palmer credited those around him.Weve done a great job. Theyre getting ready to peel their ears and come after you and weve done a great job picking up pressures and just blocking one-on-one battles, he said. On the outside, weve been so successful because weve done a great job getting ourselves open and winning those one-on-one opportunities also.The 34-year-old quarterback has had a little something to do with it, too.___AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL Air Max 270 Scontate . Barnard, 28, was 1-0 with a 0.53 ERA in three appearances, including two starts, with San Angel o this season. He struck out 19 batters and walked just one in 17 innings pitched. 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Called on from the college ranks to replace Andy Reid, Kelly implemented a whole new atmosphere in the City of Brotherly Love and now has the Eagles in the playoffs for the first time since 2010.WASHINGTON - For the second time in three years, the Washington Nationals won the most games in the NL — and then quickly exited from the playoffs. Now comes an off-season of questions about manager Matt Williams decisions and a handful of key roster choices, including what to do about Ryan Zimmerman, whether to sign Jordan Zimmermann and Ian Desmond to long-term deals, and how to upgrade an offence that fell flat in October. The window is not closed, Desmond said after the Nationals season ended Tuesday night with a 3-2 loss to the San Francisco Giants in Game 4 of their NL Division Series, but it is closing. At 96-66 under rookie skipper Williams, Washington finished first in the NL East by 17 games and had the best record in the league. Its pitching staff led the majors with a 3.03 ERA, as Zimmermann, who threw a no-hitter in the regular-season finale, teamed with Stephen Strasburg, Doug Fister, Gio Gonzalez and Tanner Roark to form as formidable rotation. The lineup lacked superstar numbers, but it managed to finish third in the NL in runs. Then came the post-season. Just like in 2012, when it won 98 games, a top-seeded Nationals club lost to a wild-card opponent in the NLDS. The pitching was fine — Washington and San Francisco each scored nine runs in the series — although Williams use of his relievers will provide fodder for months worth of talk-radio segments. Should he have lifted Zimmermann with two outs in the ninth in Game 2? Should he have gone through Game 4 without ever using Tyler Clippard, Drew Storen, Craig Stammen or an available Strasburg? Should he have picked one of those pitchers for the pivotal seventh inning, when the Giants took the lead for good, instead of Matt Thornton and rookie Aaron Barrett, whose wild pitch let the go-ahead run score? Those are our seventh-inning guys, Williams said.dddddddddddd Thats how we set this up. The biggest problem of all in the playoffs, though, was the lack of runs. The only batters who produced against the Giants were left fielder Bryce Harper and Anthony Rendon, who replaced Zimmerman as the teams third baseman in 2014. Rendon batted .400 in the NLDS. Harper hit .368 with three homers and four RBIs, which might raise an additional second-guess: Why was he batting sixth? The No. 3-4 hitters, right fielder Jayson Werth and 34-year-old first baseman Adam LaRoche, were particularly off. They went a combined 2 for 35 (a .057 average) with a pair of singles and nine strikeouts. They were hardly alone, though. The No. 1, 5 and 7 hitters — centre fielder Denard Span, shortstop Desmond and catcher Wilson Ramos — were 7 for 54 (.130) with 15 strikeouts, zero extra-base hits and zero RBIs. Its just frustrating to get to this point and not play to our capabilities, Span said. This will stick with me the whole off-season. When the Nationals eventually gather in Florida for spring training in February, the focus will be squarely on why a club so successful in the regular season hasnt been able to follow that up in the post-season. LaRoche might be gone, perhaps replaced at first base by Zimmerman. Second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera, a trade-deadline pickup, can become a free agent, and deposed closer Rafael Soriano could be gone, too. As things stand now, the Nationals have a contract option to keep Span for next season, while Zimmermann and Desmond can become free agents after the 2015 season. Were a good team and we had a goal in mind, reliever Jerry Blevins said. This wasnt it. ___ Freelance writer Rick Eymer in San Francisco contributed to this report. ' ' '