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Ima need Jalen to work that number down to something reasonable.
2025 Arizona Cardinals off season thread.
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Stout
Hold onto the ball, Murray!
Sad but not unexpected. We know MB is a freaking cheapskate and this just proves Monti isn't allowed to spend, for me. I can maybe allow some leeway there, but not much, for Monti.
Gah, but I'm glad I don't have to listen to AZ media coverage (or non-coverage, as it were) of the Cards.
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Zach Gershman
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#AZCardinals GM Monti Ossenfort on
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#AZCardinals GM Monti Ossenfort on
@AZSports
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Stout
Hold onto the ball, Murray!
Translation: "Lower your expectations, foolish fans."
kerouac9
Klowned by Keim
FWIW, I think owners are speaking to "dumb fans" when they say this. There are still a lot of people out there who will be mad/disappointed if we don't sign or publicly pursue, like Tee Higgins, the KC guard, and Sweat.
I don't think it's productive to be pre-disappointed; everyone here is already furiously lowering expectations.
Why? We have more cap space than we can spend; 2025 is his walk year. Are you going to feel super-good about asking him to eat a salary cut from $7.6MM to $4 million? Do you really think that will make a difference?
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Kyle Odegard
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Michael Bidwill to @Bickley_Marotta on the Cardinals’ workplace culture:“I think it’s excellent. I think there is a (negative) perception outside the building that a few people want to carry on.”
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Kyle Odegard
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Michael Bidwill to @Bickley_Marotta on the reasoning for the 20-40% price hike in season tickets:“We’ve seen inflation, and it’s impacted our business too, the sports industry. So we’ve got to continue to keep up. We're trying to offer more value when we do that."
Doesn’t mean he’s right now. Failed playing RT
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Kyle Odegard
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Monti Ossenfort told @Bickley_Marotta that MHJ has been in the facility every day since the season ended.“Marvin is wired to improve.”
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Kyle Odegard
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Monti Ossenfort to @Bickley_Marotta on trading premium draft capital for a superstar:“If the right situation presents itself, we won’t shy away from striking.”
I got laughed at for saying that when he signed.
Stout
Hold onto the ball, Murray!
Oh, fudge you, Bidwill. Ima going to skimp on the team but damnit, I need more money! IMO, he is worse than his father because at least his father had excuses as to why he was a cheapskate. Michael has none.
A solid offseason will get that knee ready!
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Johnny Venerable
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Michael Bidwill on 98.7 on season tickets being sold: “It drives us crazy…we feel like we’ve addressed it…we’re addressing it.”Worth noting that other franchises track and penalize their season tickets holders for selling on third-party websites.Keep this in mind...
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Michael Bidwill on 98.7 on season tickets being sold: “It drives us crazy…we feel like we’ve addressed it…we’re addressing it.”Worth noting that other franchises track and penalize their season tickets holders for selling on third-party websites.Keep this in mind...
BirdGangThing
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Interestingly I listened to Bidwill and Monti this morning and came away with a much different impression than those on the board regarding spending in free agency. They definitely are going to go out and be aggressive in free agency but also try to be smart in doing so. They know they will have to overpay to be competitive but don't want to get into a very unfavorable contract.
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Bidwill: Cardinals must continue to rely on QB Kyler Murray
Arizona Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill remains firmly in the Kyler Murray camp while acknowledging the signal caller must continue to improve.
arizonasports.com
I can both sides of interpretation on this one. I'll wait until April 1st to make judgement. If free agency is a dud, then I'll ready to call out Monti as failing. This is the offseason I expected money to be spent and I hope I'm right.
RON_IN_OC
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Hopefully it means they'll be aggressive in younger free agents, rather than spending or overspending for the Dwight freeneys of the world. They're going to want guys that can have an impact immediately and in the future not just be one year and done.
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or grad another paycheck while one can?
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Getting the another season of being well under the cap vibes.
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Only morons build teams in FA. Of all the options it's the least value and the highest chance of striking out.
FA is for building your depth and breadth of the roster, along with later round draft picks. If you want to add stars you try draft them and you trade for them.
He may well be many things, but he's not wrong on this and it's literally how every team thinks.
