GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The season has been bad enough for the Arizona Cardinals. A loss at home to San Francisco would have made it so much worse.Chandler Catanzaro, the kicker who cost the Cardinals two victories this season, came through this time with a 34-yard field goal as the game ended for a 23-20 victory on Sunday.The close loss was of no consolation to 49ers coach Chip Kelly, whose team has lost eight in a row since winning its opener.Every loss hurts, he said. I dont know how youre wired, but Im not a big fan of losing.The Cardinals, coming off a bye week following a one-sided loss at Carolina, jumped to a 14-0 lead and were up 20-10 at the half before Colin Kaepernick brought the 49ers back.We have to do a better job when you get a decisive lead in the National Football League, said Arizona wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, who kept moving up the NFL all-time lists with 12 catches for a bruising 133 yards. Fourteen points-plus, you would like to be able to put teams away.Still, it was a victory that brought Arizona (4-4-1) back to .500 with a rough schedule ahead. Five of its final seven games are on the road, beginning next Sunday night at Minnesota.If Arizona hadnt won on Sunday, coach Bruce Arians said, Its over, you know?Its over if you dont win at home. It really is, he said. Now its where it needs to be.Here are some things to consider from the Cardinals victory.KAPS PLAY: Kaepernick had another strong performance in his fourth start since taking over at quarterback from Blaine Gabbert.Kaepernick completed 17 of 30 passes for 210 yards and a touchdown and ran 10 times for 55 yards, including a 4-yard scamper for a touchdown that tied the game with 1:55 to play.Its grown and grown, Kaepernick said of his familiarity with Kellys offense. The more reps I get, the more comfortable I get in this offense.BATTERED FITZ: Fitzgerald took some rough hits in yet another big game against San Francisco.One time he was flipped over backward, landing on the back of his neck.Ive been better, said Fitzgerald, who already was dealing with knee and ankle soreness. Im good enough to go. This is Week 9 in the National Football League, everybody is dealing with something. You tape it up.STOPPING JOHNSON: The 49ers shut down the Arizona ground game after entering the contest ranked dead last in the NFL in run defense at 193 yards per game.The Cardinals managed just 80 yards, averaging 3.5 per attempt. David Johnson gained 55 yards in 19 carries, an average of 2.9 per attempt.There were no great schematic changes, San Francisco safety Antoine Bethea said.Same play calling, same people out on the field, he said. We just executed better.Johnson still managed to top 100 yards from scrimmage, barely, for the ninth game in a row and scored both Arizona TDs.NELSONS WOES: It was a tough day for Arizonas diminutive receiver, J.J. Nelson.He fumbled away a punt return and, in the second half, a pass bounced off his fingers and into the hands of the 49ers Eric Reid.Unfortunately, that is the game, quarterback Carson Palmer said. Hes made plenty of big plays. Were expecting him to make big plays. Weve got two huge road trips against two very good defenses and J.J. is going to make plays when he needs to. Theres ups, theres downs, theres ebbs and flows to games. 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But records obtained by NJ Advance Media (http://bit.ly/2fN3gxH) show that as early as 2006, key FieldTurf executives became aware the turf, known as Duraspine, was cracking, splitting and breaking apart long before it should, and long before the public had been promised.FieldTurf -- a division of publicly traded French flooring maker Tarkett -- said it never misled or defrauded customers and called such claims completely false. The company stressed that the problem does not compromise player safety.Most of the fields, which fetched $300,000 to $500,000 or more, were paid for with tax dollars. FieldTurf sold 1,428 of those fields in the U.S. to everyone from small towns to NFL teams for an estimated $570 million from 2005 until the product was discontinued in 2012.Despite several internal email discussions about their overblown sales pitches, which were reviewed by the news organization, executives never changed their marketing campaign for Duraspine fields. Company officials said in a statement that most Duraspine customers have never been told about the problem and how to identify signs that their field might be prematurely falling apart. The officials said the problem was better handled on a case-by-case basis.The company said that the problem has not affected the significant majority of Duraspine fields, and that failures came primarily in places like California and Texas, where intense ultraviolet radiation caused the product to break down after only a few years of use.While we are sorry this happened and it has been a frustrating and disappointing experience, we believe that over the past six years we have been forthcoming with our customers given the challenging situation and legal restrictions, the company said in a statement . We never hid from this problem and we strongly take issue with any attempt to suggest otherwise.FieldTurf concedess nearly one of every five U.ddddddddddddS. 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Neither party admitted wrongdoing.Public schools and towns across the U.S. have had to replace their expensive turf fields far sooner than expected and often much earlier than promised.In Oklahoma, the superintendent of the Skiatook Public School District said it took three years to get FieldTurf to agree to replace its $300,000 field -- and only after it threatened legal action. In Wisconsin, Middleton-Cross Plains School District officials said they complained about their field in 2014, and FieldTurf reps told them there was no known issue with premature failure of Duraspine.FieldTurf declined to comment on specific customers or fields.Many stand by FieldTurf and its willingness to address problems. Erik Rosenmeier, the football coach at Cranford High School in New Jersey, said that his 2009 Duraspine field was outstanding and that the schools experience with FieldTurf has been extremely positive.But in Newark, the football coach at Malcolm X Shabazz High School says that the turf was so bad last year that the school considered cancelling games.You grab it and it rips. It rips like grass, said coach Darnell Grant. We deserve better, our community deserves better and our kids deserve better. Give the kids, give the community what they paid for.---Online: www.nj.com/fieldturfState-by-state listing of fields: http://bit.ly/2fWG3Lg---Information from: NJ Advance Media. ' ' '
