2024 Arizona Cardinals

[Freethinker]

The Cardinals are historically one of the worst and most anti-White franchises. Last year, under 1st year coach Jonathan Gannon, they purged most of the White players that Kucksbury was hoarding on his bench. This year they keep that number low but the starters bump up a little, making this team racially a failure instead of an abysmal failure.

Number of White starters: 5
Number of White players on 53 man roster: 11 or 12
Grade: F

QB: Clayton Tune
G: Evan Brown
T: Jonah Williams
C: Hjalte Froholdt, Trystan Colon* (debatable White Latino)
TE: Trey McBride, Tip Reiman, Travis Vokolek

OLB: Dennis Gardeck

P: Blake Gillikin
PK: Matt Prater
LS: Aaron Brewer

Injured Reserve: Carter O’Donnell (OL)
Practice squad: Jackson Barton (OL), Dan Chisena (WR), Ben Stille (DL), Bernhard Seikovits (TE), Luke Tenuta (OL)

Year 6 of the black midget QB and only 1 playoff game to show for it. For a #1 overall pick, Mr Murray is trending towards the bust territory. A 28-36 record as a starter is simply not good with that much invested in him. On the good news front, Clayton Tune, the 2nd year player out of Houston beat out 3rd round bust Desmond Ridder for the backup role. A dynamic passers in college, perhaps Tune is destined to be the QB of the future if the Cards move on from Murray someday. The offensive line is a sumo staple in Arizona but this year they buck the trend with 3 White men starting. Jonah Williams is the big free agent signing and Evan Brown is a serviceable guard. Danish center Froholdt is a large man and an emerging talent. The biggest breakout last year was TE Trey McBride, the first TE drafted in 2022. In only 12 starts, McBride total 825 yards and 3 TDs. Hopefully this year he cracks 1,000 and becomes an all-pro player. The talent is there.

On defense, Dennis Gardeck is a starter at OLB and the lonely White man. Now 30, Dennis has worked his way from UDFA, through a lengthy racial apprenticeship, to finally 8 game starter in 2023. He’s always been an effective player and disrupter, so look for him to best his career high of 7 sacks this year.
Overall you are not going to be rooting for Arizona very often, except for when the play the Seahawks twice. McBride might be enough reason to tune in or at least check the box score each week.

 

[Don Wassall]

I still have a lot of faith in Clayton Tune. He may never get a shot with this pathetic franchise barring an injury to Murray but if not I hope he does somewhere else. Other than that not much to cheer for. Hard to believe that this was the franchise that started Rickey Proehl through the 1990s during a time when every other team consigned White WRs to backup status, the very few that there were that is.

But even in the Proehl era this was a bottom feeder in the NFL, whether demographically or as a perennial bad team. It will likely never change as long as the Bidwill family owns it, and they have since 1932. Over 90 years and the team literally has no glory years, just bottom feeding generation after generation while carpetbagging to different locations, one losing Super Bowl appearance in the nearly 60 years it has been played. But the way the financialized U.S. economy works now, the Bidwills are billionaires just by owning the team. Doesn't matter if you lose or win in the NFL, and owners can make lots and lots of money even with mediocre and worse teams every year.

 

[jphoss]

Can’t believe this is year 6 of the midget! You’d think only 1 playoff appearance would get talked about more

 

[Freethinker]

I still have a lot of faith in Clayton Tune. He may never get a shot with this pathetic franchise barring an injury to Murray but if not I hope he does somewhere else. Other than that not much to cheer for. Hard to believe that this was the franchise that started Rickey Proehl through the 1990s during a time when every other team consigned White WRs to backup status, the very few that there were that is.

But even in the Proehl era this was a bottom feeder in the NFL, whether demographically or as a perennial bad team. It will likely never change as long as the Bidwill family owns it, and they have since 1932. Over 90 years and the team literally has no glory years, just bottom feeding generation after generation while carpetbagging to different locations, one losing Super Bowl appearance in the nearly 60 years it has been played. But the way the financialized U.S. economy works now, the Bidwills are billionaires just by owning the team. Doesn't matter if you lose or win in the NFL, and owners can make lots and lots of money even with mediocre and worse teams every year.

This is a fantastic argument to use against the nonsensical statement “that the best players play” because the owners “desperately want to win”. It’s sort of like being in a fantasy football league where instead of paying an entry fee, you get paid just to compete. Then the winner doesn’t get anything. Just bragging rights. What a racket, and it’s understandable why the Usual Suspects are so heavily over represented in franchise ownership. They know a good grift when they see one.

Regarding glory years, I’d imagine the Warner / Fitzgerald / Boldin years with the 1 Super Bowl loss would be it. Those were at least some high flying offenses with a HoF QB at the peak of his game. But yea, that’s not great when looking at other teams with more success.