The Arizona Cardinals could sure use a competent quarterback. Quarterback, Carson Palmer, could sure use a healthier body to help play for the Arizona Cardinals. The latter of the two entities is now — cautiously — hoping he could return to the National Football League for the last two weeks of the season.

It must be harshly noted: Carson Palmer is only mildly optimistic about the idea of that happening.

“I could potentially be available the last two weeks of the season,” Palmer said, via the team’s website. “Who knows? I don’t know where I’ll be [with rehab] at that point.  I don’t know where we will be as a team at that point. I just try to be as ready as I can as quick as I can.”

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The weird kicker to this story is that, while the gunslinger is under contract for next season, the potentiality of retirement as an option is real. Although, at least according to Palmer, he hasn't even mulled that possibility over.

“I haven’t even gotten there yet,” Palmer said. “Just as far as what I’ve been doing the last couple of weeks, I’ve had numerous doctors appointments, tried on different braces and casts. That’s what my mindset has been. I’ll have a chance to think about what is next as far as 2018 and all that once we get through this year.”

“I don’t know what’s ahead,” Palmer said. “As cliché as it is you take it one game at a time, one week at a time.”