The Arizona Cardinals have announced today that they’ve released QB Matt Leinart.

Well I don’t know. I’ve been away on holiday and largely out of touch for the last two weeks and this is probably the biggest piece of news that I’ve seen so far when trying to catch up with what’s been a-happening.

Leinart has struggled to impress when he’s been given the chance, and there have been well reported maturity issues but there’s also a case to be made that he’s never been given a good enough chance to impress. In either case, losing the projected started in such a key position this close to the start of the season has got to hurt.

We’ll be factoring this in when we take our Final Look and make our predictions for which teams are post-season bound.