McManaman had an article about it. Nobody is talking.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/spor...e-alex-okafors-back---and-hes-lucky/78857082/
Whether the Cardinals beat the Green Bay Packers and advance to the NFC Championship Game or lose and have to call it a season, they’re going to do it together, as a team.
That point was made very clear this week when the Cardinals took player solidarity to a new level.
I know this because I went up to at least a dozen players to privately ask them the truth behind Alex Okafor’s mysterious toe injury and how their starting outside linebacker landed on the non-football injury list – and not a single one of them was willing to spill the
beans.
I guaranteed them anonymity with complete off-the-record certitude if they’d just offer up a clue as to what Okafor could have done away from the football field to have his season end prematurely and so strangely, and they still wouldn’t
bite.
Some of them told me they straight out that they don’t know what happened – wink, wink.
“Uh, I’m really not sure,” one player told me, blowing his cover with a smile. “I might have to swing by his place and see how he’s doing.”
“I heard it’s nothing, really,” another said.
Whatever happened, it apparently occurred over the weekend while the Cardinals were enjoying their first-round bye after winning the NFC West and finishing 13-3. Coach Bruce Arians wouldn’t divulge specifics, saying only, “Go ask Alex.”
We tried, but Okafor, 24, hasn’t been around to ask. We left phone messages, and he hasn’t returned them. We even reached out to his agent, David Mulugheta, and he told us the same thing Arians did – “Ask Alex.”
