Marvin Harrison Jr. wasn't that old when his father's career came to a close after the 2008 season, although he does remember the "very cool" video of his dad the team played when the family returned in 2011 for Senior's Ring of Honor ceremony.

MHJ has already been back to Indy once as a Cardinal. Last year, the team went there for a couple of days for joint practices and a preseason game. But Sunday will be different. Harrison is playing in a game that counts against the team that helped make the name Marvin Harrison famous in the first place.

"It'll be emotional for sure," Harrison Jr. said. "I just have to keep the main thing the main thing."

MHJ still seeks full-time consistency as an NFL wide receiver. But the confidence grows. At the end of last season, wide receivers coach Drew Terrell said he wanted MHJ to approach his craft with the thought "All right, I'm Marvin Harrison Jr. I'm a bad mother(expletive) and they gotta feel me next time I'm out there." On Friday, Terrell said Harrison is still developing that level of confidence, noting the 43-yard grab against the Titans.

"That was one of those moments where he was like, 'I am him,'" Terrell said.

Of his recent play, MHJ said, "I think that's called flow state." He can tell it's improving.

Now he'll try to hit that consistency in Indy. Incredibly, his stats after 22 career games look so close to what his dad put up after 22 games:

"I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing or a bad thing," Harrison Jr. said. "It's just how the world has been working so far. Hopefully I'll have the same career."

-- Who is throwing to MHJ will be the big story. We could have a hint Saturday if practice-squad QB Kedon Slovis is elevated, but after Murray practiced on Friday, it's feeling more and more like it could be a game-day decision. Murray is officially questionable.

-- If Brissett starts at QB, it'll be interesting to see if the offense looks much different than when Murray is in the lineup (minus the scrambling ability.) While Brissett might look down the field more often, it should be noted that Brissett has a miniscule 1.4 percent interception rate in his career, the lowest in NFL history. When you are risk-averse like that, it wouldn't seem like he's gonna be a gunslinger.

-- Banged-up offensive linemen Will Hernandez, Evan Brown and Jonah Williams all practiced full on Friday and none have injury designations. We will see what happens with guard Isaiah Adams, but the Cardinals could finally field the offensive line they tried to build last season – left tackle Paris Johnson Jr., left guard Brown, center Hjalte Froholdt, right guard Hernandez, right tackle Williams – as a complete unit for the first time since Week 1 of 2024.

-- There were a lot of people wondering what the locker room was like this week. NFL players are pretty resilient. When they say they move on by Wednesday, they usually do. They have to.

"We're playing hard on defense, we have missing pieces, and we are filling in with what we've got," safety Rabbit Taylor-Demerson said, emphasizing he could only speak for his side of the ball. "Defense, the energy is high in the building, no reason to be down on ourselves. We still have a lot of ball. We get to come in and live the dream and play football every single day."

-- Calais Campbell has made some huge plays already this season at age 39, and his big role this week has been as the wise elder speaking to a team that needs to find a way to finish a victory (and a big one, if they were to get one on the road at Indianapolis.)

But I also asked him, with the high level at which he has played, if it has surprised him at all given his age. Campbell, honest as always, didn't hold back.

"I don't feel great if we are being honest, but I feel good enough," he said. "When the offseason is here and I am training and pushing myself to the limit, part of me has doubt, 'Can I still take over a game? Can I still make those game-changing plays?' The answer is usually 'I don't know.' Then you go through camp and the positions you are putting yourself in are not the same as a game because it isn't an actual game. You get to the game it's like, 'OK, I love it and I want to put myself in position to make plays, and I'm just not sure if I'm going to have it.' Your legs feel a little off, a little bit tired.

"I tell myself, 'Do it with heavy legs, do it tired.' I find a burst of energy at the right time and make a couple of plays. It feels good. But yes, I surprise myself. When I was 28, 29, 30, even 33, I felt so much better than I do today. At the same time, once you have some success, I'm like, 'I still got it.' That confidence is huge. I still have enough juice."

-- Rookie cornerback Will Johnson (the top-rated cornerback on Pro Football Focus, for what that is worth) already has five passes defensed this season, leading rookies and eighth overall. And that's missing two of Arizona's five games.

-- Terrell was asked of his analysis of wide receiver Michael Wilson's season, who only has eight catches for 52 yards and a touchdown.

"Dog. Watch him play," Terrell said. "I don't care what any of his numbers look like. Watch (No.) 14 play football on a consistent basis. (It's) good."

-- Punter Blake Gillikin is having an excellent season, with three punts last week of at least 60 yards. He is the only punter in the league in the top five in gross punting (51.7 yards) and net punting (45.4 yards). Unfortunately, his back injury is bad enough that the Cardinals signed Pat O'Donnell on Friday, so there may be a fill-in at least for the Colts game.

-- The last word goes to Campbell, who was reflecting on the harsh loss to the Titans as the Cardinals move forward.

"You can't let a game like that beat you twice."

See you Sunday.