It's the buzzword that the Cardinals -- and many teams -- use this time of year: "Aggressive."

It came up with both GM Steve Keim and coach Steve Wilks here at the Scouting combine, when both were asked what exactly it meant when they said they were going to be aggressive in their pursuit of a quarterback.

"When you don't have one, there is no other way," Keim said, and that's hard to argue.

Still, both men described being aggressive pretty much the same way they have been talking about the quarterback search in general.

"We will have plans in place for free agency, but again, a trade option potentially, and the draft, it's all three because we don't have any on the roster currently," Keim said. "Whether we are going to keep two or three, we're going to have to have someone that's experienced,  and you'd like to be able to take a young guy and develop him."

Wilks was a little more specific.

"What I mean by aggressive right here is when free agency starts, we're going to try to get the best one, not only have a plan A but a plan B and a Plan C," he said. "You also have to look at trades. And then, there's the draft. We're sitting at 15. Do we feel there is a guy we have to move up for? All those things come into play when I talk about being aggressive, not sitting back."