Tampa, Fla. - Arizona running backs coach Maurice Carthon would like another chance to run an NFL offense. He was fired as Browns offensive coordinator six games into his second season.

"I don't want to be a coordinator just to be one," Carthon said. "I want to have an opportunity to succeed. I've been around enough good Football coaches where I know I can do it. I'd like to see how I could be if you gave me a Kurt Warner [at quarterback] or Matt Leinart or Tony Romo or Chad Pennington."

Carthon was saddled with Trent Dilfer and Charlie Frye in his 22 games with the Browns.

Carthon had success as an assistant coach under Bill Parcells and now Ken Whisenhunt. In response to a question about changing a team's culture of losing, Carthon said something that might have been at the heart of the troubles experienced in four seasons of the Phil Savage-Romeo Crennel regime.

"The thing I learned a long time ago, if you have division, it hurts your team," he said. "Whether it's the general manager and the head coach, the offensive and defensive coaches, the locker room. They can't be divided. It should be one.

"That's what team is all about. It's not about who likes Mo and who doesn't like Mo. Everybody in the building has to be together - the general manager, the coach, the players."

Ben's competitiveness: Yet another former Browns offensive coordinator, Bruce Arians of the Steelers, said Ben Roethlisberger's fortitude is what has made him a great NFL quarterback.

"Ben has to win everything. That is the driving force that makes great players great," Arians said.

"He was [ticked] off when he got drafted low [11th overall], but he got to be with a hell of a team.

"Having watched [former No. 1 overall pick] Tim Couch go through what he went through in Cleveland, Tim barely came out alive. [Being picked lower] is a godsend. Now he's in his second Super Bowl."

Injury report: Steelers receiver Hines Ward practiced fully Thursday for the first time since spraining his right knee in the AFC Championship Game 11 days earlier. Ward said he is unconcerned about playing Sunday with a brace on the knee because he played all last year with a knee brace.

"I'm pretty sure I can play one more game [with it] for the Super Bowl," he said. . . . Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin denied a rumor on profootballtalk.com that Roethlisberger had X-rays of his back taken this week. The official pool report noted that Roethlisberger "at times appeared to be trying to stretch his mid-torso region" during the practice. Tomlin said: "Ben's health is often the subject of inaccurate reports. He's fine.". . . The Cardinals reported four players were limited. The Cardinals practiced for two hours, 15 minutes. The Steelers' practice was 20 minutes

shorter.

Trick-play alert: When Whisenhunt was Steelers offensive coordinator in the 2005 Super Bowl season, Ward caught a pass for a touchdown on a trick play to seal the 21-10 Pittsburgh win over Seattle.

"I wouldn't put it past him to start the game off with a trick play," Ward said.

He remembers Whisenhunt favoring trick plays when the line of scrimmage is between the 40-yard lines.

Steelers defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau said Whisenhunt's timing on trick plays "is his gift."

"You know the gadget's coming somewhere, but you don't know what and when," LeBeau said.

"In this case, the designer is particularly gifted."