When and where: Week 13 in Arizona
Key additions: HC Mike LaFleur, G Isaac Seumalo, RB Tyler Allgeier, DT Roy Lopez, WR Kendrick Bourne, QB Gardner Minshew
Key subtractions: QB Kyler Murray, S Jalen Thompson, DT Dalvin Tomlinson, DL Calais Campbell, LT Kelvin Beachum, RT Jonah Williams
Last season: The Cardinals, the franchise with the second worst winning percentage among active NFL teams, lost more games in 2025 than in any season in franchise history
The question for this team: Which QB are the Cardinals
drafting in April?
The Cardinals season is already over. This is a team in a contract dispute with Jacoby Brissett, who led the team to one win in 12 starts in 2025.
Brissett isn’t wrong to hold out, he’d probably make more money as a backup on another team, at the least he would have the benefit of no longer being on the Cardinals, a franchise that has charged players for the food they have given them.
At the same time, the Cardinals also aren’t wrong to not give Brissett any additional money, they have Gardner Minshew and 3rd round pick Carson Beck to tank with. They don’t need Brissett, nobody does.
There’s really no point in discussing the 2026 Arizona Cardinals. This is a team with the 6th most dead money (virtually the same as the Eagles) for 2026, and yet the 5th most cap space for 2026. According to Over The Cap, 24.8% of the Cardinals cap space is from rookie contracts, the most in the league. Over a third of the Cardinals salary cap for 2026 is being used on nobody on the roster. They’re not trying to compete this year. They want to lose this game and as many games as possible and have first shot at a bunch of QBs who a lot of people thought were going to be 1st round picks this past April. Good luck!
