TEMPE — Unlike most everyone else in Arizona, Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon isn’t focused on the big picture.
Right now, it’s all about Atlanta. His words, not mine.
But currently riding their longest losing streak of the year (six) and heading full steam into offseason changes — which appear to already be taking place in some capacity — does that big picture still include Gannon?
It’s a discussion to say the least, especially after watching opponents rack up at least 40 points in four of those six losses. The optics get far worse when acknowledging three of those four 40 burgers have come against NFC West foes.
In the divisional arms race, the Cardinals are a distant fourth with a future outlook that’s filled with unknowns and question marks.
The seat is undoubtedly getting warm for the third-year head coach, leaving many to wonder what kind of pitch to ownership he could possibly have in running it back next season.
At first, Jonathan Gannon said “there’s no pitch” to ownership when it comes to his job as Cardinals head coach.
He then dove in a question later:
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“I believe in myself and I believe in our team,” Gannon said Monday after originally saying there was no pitch to the front office. “We are at a dip right now and we’re going through some adversity, but I do believe in us and we’ll get out of the dip.”
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Gannon added he talks to owner Michael Bidwill every day about his future, and that the discussions center around what the Cardinals can do to get rolling.
How that happens is up for serious debate.
Sure, moving on from quarterback Kyler Murray after a failed Cardinals tenure seems inevitable. There will be plenty of assistant coaching changes, too. Just how high up those changes are made is the question.
But it’s not just the obvious moves when it comes to Gannon extending his time in Arizona.
If there’s going to be real change with Gannon still at the helm, the daily process and standard operating procedures must be fully evaluated.
Because one thing is crystal clear, whatever the current regime is doing right now is not working.
And while it might not be the juiciest storyline this year, Arizona’s health and development of its players have been a huge part of that “dip” Gannon mentioned.
More than 25 players have been forced to the injured reserve, physically unable to perform or non-football lists in 2025. And that doesn’t include the mountain of missed games by others not relegated to those lists.
For a team that has been so hyper focused on filling up that health bucket, it’s been tipped over and is draining into the nearest wash.
“I’m in control of all that. … You’re trying to evaluate that every day,” Gannon said last week about Arizona’s health and training. “We talk about that every day, the health and development of our players. In my mind, we can do everything better. That’s a thing that we have to do better.”
“There’s a lot of different factors that go into that,” Gannon added Monday. “I’m responsible for all of them.”
Injuries are a part of the game. There’s no denying that. They’re also not the end-all, be-all excuse for the Cardinals’ 2025 failings. Other teams are dealing with their own litany of issues and still putting together competitive weeks of football.
But they’re a part of the equation — albeit small — when taking into account Arizona’s issues, as are the handful of poor free-agent additions in recent years and not getting the most out of the 2024 NFL Draft class headlined by first-rounders Marvin Harrison Jr. and Darius Robinson.
Across the board — save for maybe Trey McBride, Calais Campbell and Josh Sweat — everyone should be wearing this season like a black eye.
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