“I’m thankful for these guys in the locker room \u2026 and [Head Coach Kevin O’Connell], as well. He’s like, ‘Hey, we’re gonna come back to you,'” Jones said. “I’m really thankful to be here, thankful to my coaches and teammates for lifting me up, even when I’m down. They keep me up on the sideline.”<\/p>\n
Jones noted the same was true after an earlier pass in the end zone he couldn’t quite bring in.<\/p>\n
“Sam threw a dime. It was in my hands,” he said. “I feel like when I was pulling it in, going to the ground, is when I bobbled it, lost track of it.<\/p>\n
“That’s not me,” Jones emphasized of the mistakes. “But I can’t make any \u2013 I’m not gonna make any \u2013 excuses. Will go back and look at the film, but I’ve gotta be better.”<\/p>\n
Multiple players reiterated their belief in Jones, who entered the Week 13 contest already having surpassed 1,000 scrimmage yards.<\/p>\n
“I have unwavering confidence in him,” O’Neill said.<\/p>\n
“We always have trust and confidence in A.J. to come back and bounce back,” Justin Jefferson echoed. “We know A.J. is not [usually] the type of guy to fumble and to give the ball way. He’s a great back for us, and he’s a big weapon for us. You can’t [give up] on somebody like that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I’m thankful for these guys in the locker room \u2026 and [Head Coach Kevin O’Connell], as well. He’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[6912,375,390,42467,2604,1327,7,2780,1025,1219,6,1878],"class_list":{"0":"post-335246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-aaron-jones","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals","11":"tag-arizona-cardinals-at-minnesota-vikings-2024-reg-13","12":"tag-arizonacardinals","13":"tag-cardinals","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-justin-jefferson","16":"tag-news-index","17":"tag-news-team","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-sam-darnold"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115133857500410544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}