With the Arizona Cardinals completing their 8-8 season with a win over the Seattle Seahawks in overtime. As always, with a win, you can point to the performance of more than one, but some tend to stand out. For our community, it seems that the choice is clear in Larry Fitzgerald, who currently has 85 percent of the vote for the Cardinal of the Week poll.

You can imagine that Larry will be the overwhelming choice for the writers, too. See who gets game balls from our panel of writers.

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The Arizona Cardinals lost to the Cincinnati Bengals 23-16, thanks to three turnovers and a 23-0 deficit. They almost pulled off tying the score, but karma would have it that after the Bengals tried their hardest to give the Cardinals opportunities to show their Cardiac Cards mentality and penchant for winning in dramatic fashion, only to have Early Doucet fall down in the end zone wide open.

Nonetheless, there were a few Cardinals that had solid performances. Andre Roberts and Larry Fitzgerald each had six catches, Beanie Wells reached the 1000-yard mark on the season, Daryl Washington had another 11 tackles and Calais Campbell had another huge game with a sack, a forced fumble and seven tackles. Kerry Rhodes also had two fumble recoveries.

See who our writers selected to give game balls to and why.

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The Arizona Cardinals won yet again, evening their record to 7-7 and found a way to make things interesting but pull out the victory. As for the community vote for the player of the week, linebacker O'Brien Schofield has a slim lead over John Skelton. Now it is the turn of our panel of writers to give their game balls away to the player or person of their choice.

Naturally, the comment section is for you to comment and give your thoughts on the game balls by the writers.

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With the Arizona Cardinals' victory over the San Francisco 49ers had a little bit of everything -- TD passes by John Skelton, sacks by five different players, a well-placed challenge and a come-from-behind win. Oh yeah, there was also sick Larry Fitzgerald stuff.

So far, the overwhelming community vote for the Cardinal of the Week is for Fitz, but who will get game balls from out panel of writers?

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I have to say -- everything feels better after a win. It also makes so much more sense to give out game balls. When the Arizona Cardinals were losing, it seemed silly, but we did it anyway. Now, it has a certain joy to it. So after Kevin Kolb and LaRod Stephens-Howling connected for a 52-yards overtime touchdown to beat the Dallas Cowboys 19-13, we the writers of ROTB present our game balls to the players of our choice.

Read on!

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The Arizona Cardinals beat the St. Louis Rams and had some very good performances by a few players. As we do each week, our panel of writers give a game ball to one of the players on the team. Hit the jump to see who got game balls.

Please comment on the choices and let us know who would be your choice and why. 

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After a thorough 23-7 beatdown by the San Francisco 49ers, it is hard to look at who on the Arizona Cardinals should get rewarded with a game ball. John Skelton looked worse than he ever has and the offense was on the field under 16 minutes of the game. The defense, while keeping the Niners out of the end zone in the first half, they did give up some big plays. 

Nonetheless, we will give our ROTB game balls as a writing staff. Hit the jump to see the recipients. Please feel free to give a game ball of your own in the comments and explain why.

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