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TEMPE Stitched Mike Iupati Jersey , Ariz. (AP) —rom their stunning victory over the Packers in Green Bay has been tempered by news that rookie wide receiver Christian Kirk and starting left guard Mike Iupati are out for the season with injuries.Kirk, who was developing into a dynamic force on offense, has a broken foot. Iupati, who has battled injuries throughout his time with Arizona, has a knee injury.“Christian, a great season,” coach Steve Wilks said at his Monday news conference. “There’s no setbacks for 2019. I’m real excited to get him back, did some great things. You can see from the game yesterday, really progressing and moving in the right direction.”A second-round draft pick out of Texas A&M, Kirk is second to Larry Fitzgerald with 43 receptions and leads the team with 590 yards receiving. He caught three passes for 54 yards and had a 23-yard gain on a fly sweep before being injured in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s 20-17 win. That 23-yard run was followed by a 37-yard reception, Josh Rosen’s longest pass of the day, and led to Zane Gonzalez’s 44-yard field goal that tied the game at 10.Kirk stayed in for a couple of plays after he was injured.“It says a lot about his personality, his character,” Wilks said. “He tried to fight through it. He went out there a couple of more plays and tried to endure but the pain was just too much for him.”The Cardinals expect a lot from Kirk in future seasons.“I’ve said it before, this guy’s a pro’s pro,” Wilks said. “The way he prepares, the way he comes in each and every day is very exciting to see Youth Mike Iupati Jersey , so the future’s very bright with him.”Iupati started 10 games this season and missed two due to injury after taking a pay cut to return this year. His departure further mixes up an offensive line that was going with its eighth combination of starters this season in that game. Colby Gossett, signed off the Minnesota Vikings practice squad a month ago, filled in for Iupati.The injuries did not diminish the magnitude of the unexpected win. The Cardinals were in a dark place after consecutive losses to Oakland and the Los Angeles Chargers left them 2-9. Some were criticizing their effort, but they went into cold, snowy Lambeau Field and won there for the first time in nine tries. They hadn’t won at Green Bay in 49 years, which was pre-Lambeau.Two-touchdown underdogs, Arizona’s victory cost Packers coach Mike McCarthy his job. McCarthy was fired a couple of hours after the game ended.It was just the second loss for Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers in 18 games at Lambeau in the month of December. His last home loss in December was Dec. 7, 2008, vs. Houston.“Growing up you see how dominant Green Bay is in December, especially at home,” said Cardinals rookie running back Chase Edmonds, who rushed for both Arizona touchdowns in a breakout game, “but you know coach Wilks talked about it all week, we’re going up there to win a football game and nothing else.”Arizona rushed for a season-high 182 yards, averaging 6.3 yards per attempt.Rodgers, meanwhile, had one of the worst home games of his career Stitched Jamar Taylor Jersey , completing 31 of 50 passes for 233 yards. His passer rating of 79.8 was 30 below his career home average. Green Bay’s 17 points were its fewest at home since Dallas held the Packers to 16 two years ago. Aaron Jones managed just 36 yards on 11 carries. He entered the game averaging six yards per carry.It was that kind of day for the Packers. And all of it against an Arizona defense that surrendered 45 unanswered points in a 45-10 loss to the Chargers the previous week.“I thought it started with our disguise,” Wilks said. “I thought we did a great job of really just trying to show him different looks.”There was no bigger play than Fitzgerald’s sliding grab of Rosen’s 32-yard throw to convert a third-and-23 late in the game. Fitzgerald just got his hand underneath the ball and cradled it from the turf.“Phenomenal,” Wilks said. “Typical of Larry. I don’t think nine times out of 10 somebody else probably wouldn’t make that catch.”The Cardinals moved on to get the game-winning 44-yard field goal from Gonzalez, signed by the team just a week earlier.It was just the third win of the season for the Cardinals, who are home against Detroit on Sunday. The players had a rare Monday off because of the equally rare victory. TEMPE, Ariz. — Another blowout loss has left Steve Wilks on even shakier ground as first-year coach of the Arizona Cardinals.The 40-14 defeat in Atlanta to a 4-9 Falcons team left the Cardinals at 3-11.They face the Los Angeles Rams, who beat the Cardinals 34-0 in Week 2, in their final home game. That’s followed by the season finale at Seattle.Prospects do not seem good. Arizona could well be headed to a 3-13 season, matching the Cardinals’ worst since the franchise moved from St. Louis 30 years ago.With a dissatisfied fan base and a team showing little or no improvement through the season, team President Michael Bidwill — who takes great pride in making the franchise relevant after years of losing — could decide that he can’t afford to give Wilks a second season to prove his worth.“I really don’t listen to the outside noise,” Wilks said Monday of speculation about his job status. “I wake up every morning blessed, and I come in here with my nose down and just grind away, trying to get these coaches and players all on the same page and looking to try to get a win. That’s my focus.”The only other time Arizona has lost 13 games came in 2000, when Vince Tobin was fired seven games into the season and replaced by Dave McGinnis.The Cardinals took an early 7-0 lead in Atlanta, then the Falcons scored 40 unanswered points. Wilks mercifully benched rookie quarterback Josh Rosen late in the game and backup Mike Glennon got the team in the end zone.But Wilks reiterated that Rosen would start the final two games, even though he’s under constant assault by defenses behind a makeshift offensive line that has lost four starters to injuries and wasn’t all that effective to begin with.“Yesterday, I felt the need to take him out based off where we were in the game Youth Jamar Taylor Jersey ,” Wilks said. “He didn’t like that. He was disappointed a little bit, wanted to stay in there. Sometimes with great players like that, you have to help them help themselves, but moving forward, we’re not going to take a defeated attitude and say that we’re going to put him on the shelf for the remainder of the season.”Like most of the rest of the team, Rosen hasn’t seemed to get much better at his job, although there are plenty of reasons beyond his control. Against the Falcons, Rosen completed 13 of 22 passes for 132 yards with two interceptions. For the season, Rosen has thrown 10 touchdown passes and been intercepted 14 times.“I always say have zero expectations in life so you’re never disappointed,” he said after the game. “I don’t know about humbling. I didn’t really have any expectations coming in. I just wanted to get better every day and play good football. I have good days. I have bad days. I’d like to be a little more consistent on the good days. This was a step back, and we’ll climb over the hurdle like we always do.”This Cardinals team has crashed into hurdles more often than cleared them.Arizona has eight losses of at least 10 points and four by at least 20. No other team in the NFL has that record of futility.The offense has statistically been the worst in the NFL, but the defense hasn’t been so great either. Atlanta, the worst rushing team in the league, ran for 215 yards against Arizona, the most allowed by the Cardinals this season.Wilks served one season as defensive coordinator of the Carolina Panthers and his entire coaching career has been on that side of the ball.The bright spot: The Cardinals are tied with Oakland for worst record in the NFL and they lost to the Raiders.So lose in the final two games — the Cardinals opened as a 12 1/2-point underdog against the Rams (it was up to 14 on Monday) — and that No. 1 draft pick is all theirs.NOTES: Wilks said OT Joe Barksdale and CB David Amerson were in the concussion protocol after being injured in Atlanta. … He said he is hopeful that WR Chad Williams (hamstring) would be available against the Rams after missing the last two games.