As the offseason work wound down, the trash-talking between three Cardinals wide receivers heated up.
On the last day of minicamp in mid-June, Brittan Golden, John Brown and J.J. Nelson arrived at some idle time in between practice drills. To fill it, they began spouting the virtues of their respective colleges.
All three are from small schools – West Texas
A&M, Pittsburg State and Alabama-Birmingham, respectively – and while those programs’ NFL footprints pale in comparison to BCS schools, each player takes great pride in where they come from.