CARDINALS

Gonzalez, the former Arizona State kicker who was cut by Cleveland early in this, his second, season.

But there’s much more than some personnel shuffling needed for the Cardinals, who at 2-9 are tied with San Francisco and Oakland. The Cardinals need to win two of their remaining games to avoid

matching the worst record since the franchise moved to Arizona in 1988. Arizona was 3-13 in 2000. Vince Tobin was fired seven games into that season, replaced by Dave McGinnis. The Cardinals’ worst record since moving into State Farm Stadium was 5-11 in 2006.

Arizona gave up 45 unanswered points to the Chargers on Sunday after taking a 10-0 lead. They ran three

plays in the third quarter. Philip Rivers set NFL records by completing his first 25 passes and completing 28 of 29 overall.

“A lot of his completions were to the back, checkdowns, quick throws,” Wilks said, “doing a great job of coverage and then he’s checking the ball underneath. That’s where a lot of those came from.”

It’s something Rosen could learn from, he said.

Wilks said he saw no sign of the team quitting.

“I’m not an effort coach,” he said. “If we’re coaching effort we’re in trouble. The question yesterday wasn’t those guys’ effort, watching the tape, you could see those guy still working hard, still trying to finish, still trying to do the things we asked them to do. So I’m not concerned about the effort.”