Michael Bidwill

I don't think there was any way that Mike LaFleur was not forced into starting Jacoby Brissett because of the reason that he held out and they paid him $15 million.

Monte Ossenfort and Michael Bidwill, even though they were getting laughed at up and down by the league, by media outlets, by fans, that they were- W- w- we all know these guys think that they're smarter than they are.

They think they're the smartest men in the room, so they say, "Well, we held out for Jacoby.

He gives us the best reason to win, but we also just paid him a whole bunch of million, millions of dollars.

Just ter- a hard watch.

A hard watch.

And, and if this is a case like you're speculating that Michael Bidwill or the powers that be are forcing the coach to make certain decisions, I hope that it's a wake-up call to y- to empower the guys that you hire to do these jobs to let them do their, their goddamn job.

Like, Mike LaFleur seems to be a, like a pretty sharp dude with a good, a good plan.

Hearing all these other teams talk about change and looking at everything.

Why do we not hear from the Cardinals, Bo? Are they really that tone deaf? Clearly, MILF has no say in this.

It's all coming from the general manager and the owner.

You go to, you know, beyond the norm reasons for it, right? Because you can't find any logical reason why you would continue to deploy basically the same product and that you would think through seven weeks that two wins would justify that, right? And, you know, maybe one legitimate win and the other one is, like we've talked about, a little fluky in the exception to the rule.

That brings the Cardinals' record to two and four on the season.

Off the field though, a pair of former Arizona Cardinals employees has sued the team and owner Michael Bidwill.

The accusations include racial discrimination.

These follow previous lawsuits filed against the team and owner over allegations of age and gender discrimination and defamation.

He said that two white coaches on the staff were given title, um, increases, so to speak, r- you know, promotions, nominal promotions, uh, without actually having their responsibilities changed.

So he was, uh, you know, alleging discrimination given the, uh, the difference between he-- how he was treated compared to those two white coaches.

Um, and then there were other m- you know, more, um, minor things r- referring to the treatment that, that he experienced in the organization, including from owner Michael Bidwill.

And the one little tidbit that has kind of got attention this week, uh, is that the owner, Michael Bidwill, uh, scowled at Shumpert as he took two water bottles from the fridge one day and asked if he was going grocery shopping, uh, which played into a lot of the, the notions that exist around, uh, Bidwill because he had been the last owner to continue charging players for meals during the off-season, charging for dinners during the regular season.

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... as far as just, a, a really horrible culture, which was, which was, uh, alleged and, and a lot of it was proven to be true.

I mean, there, there's stuff like w- what's being alleged of Michael Bidwill, it, it doesn't even scratch the surface as far as Dan Snyder, so I'm skeptical that there would be any kinda, you know, smoking gun that would force change.

Yeah.

Yes, between the billboards, the petitions, the Arizona Cardinal fan base, the Bird Gang, is making their presence felt.

But will the team, and specifically Michael Bidwill, listen? PHX Cardinals starts now.

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Basically, the, the billboards read as follows: "Sell the team.

#BidwillOut" Now, AZ Family reached out to Michael Bidwill and the Cardinals, I'm guessing just the Cardinals, for comment.

Yeah.

I mean, you bring that, you know, vision and that perspective and, you know, the credibility in the locker room and, and just the voice in the ear of the ownership to go, "Hey, you know, this may be what you're thinking about from an ownership standpoint.

Let me take you into the locker room a little bit more, and let me have, you know, that voice with what's going on, and have a pulse of a locker room." Like, it's gonna be e- much easier for Matt Ryan to have a pulse in a locker room than it is for, you know, Michael Bidwill to be able to have that same pulse in the locker room.

And so, uh, yeah, I mean, I, I think any, any organization would benefit from a smart football person that's been in that role.

Um, you know, obviously Matt Ryan brings a whole nother level of credibility within, you know, the Atlanta Falcons organization because of everything he did on the football field and the way that he carried himself as well.

But yes, I, I, I believe any organization, including the Cardinals, would obviously benefit from having voices like that, um, you know, for Michael Bidwill and, and the coach and, uh, you know, the organization as a whole.

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