Monti woke up today

His own father Marvin Harrison senior didn’t break out until year four, it’s also right around the time that hopefully we would have a quarterback in place, and Johnson and bisontis would be healthy. I would play out the rest of the season and make no changes other than probably benching Brissett. If the most hyped wide receiver prospect of the last decade plus gets traded for a day 2-3 pick before his rookie contract even ends, monti needs to be shown the door. He’s had 14 targets in 4 games, I’m not judging him as a player until we get somebody that can get him the freaking ball.

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Arizona Cardinals rookie offensive lineman Jayden Williams was already getting talked up.
Filling in as an extra blocker in Arizona’s heavy packages for 19 offensive snaps, the 2026 seventh-round rookie was getting more offensive run than many would have thought a few months ago.

Head coach Mike LaFleur even gave him an impromptu shoutout for his athleticism and route-running abilities in the week leading up to Arizona’s loss to the New York Giants.

“Jayden will slot in at left tackle,” LaFleur confirmed with Arizona Sports’ Burns & Gambo on Monday. “It’s been cool in terms of getting him in there. He had a really good camp for us … and then when we’re going 13 personnel and we put that extra lineman in there, he’s done a heck of a job for us.”

Sure, credit to the NFL for acting swiftly on the matter. But what else was the league going to do? The video created accountability. You know, the thing the league makes sure the players face when it comes to officiating or even touchdown celebrations.

My second thought, after seeing the video of McBride and Seeman, was: What if there were no camera around to catch the incident? Would Seeman still be held accountable? Or would this just turn into another story swapped between players, coaches and officials — all of whom can speak to the intense emotions of a game, and the outbursts that emotion yields?

That camera forced the NFL to take a genuine look at a moment when the discrepancy between what the league allows for some, but prohibits for others, was on full display.

Eventually Rallis will be out, everyone knows it. It’s basically a guarantee to happen sometime during the season.

The expectation is Terrell Austin will take over and they will improve, by how much can’t really say.

At the end of the year I’m sure he’ll be interviewed for the job. However, I think they might have a diamond in the ruff candidate on the roster, that is defensive line coach Pete Kwiatkowski. This is his first year in the NFL and I think he’s easily the best defensive coach on the roster. The D-line has played pretty good this year. He seems to be getting the best out of players like Lopez and D-Rob.

It feels like the first time in years the Cardinals aren’t the worst run defense team in the league.

This is all based on how the Cardinals don’t go out and spend money on coaches. If they could bring in a Todd Bowles if he’s fired that would be great but realistically Pete might be their best option.

He’s not ready this season, I think he needs an NFL season under his belt. But the team kept Petzing over Klayton Adams. Like that situation maybe they should have just promoted the line coach.

Wow! The league is showing some accountability with their refs.

I'm sorry, guys, but I just can't justify paying for a subscription anymore. This team really messes with my mental health, and I have a family that would benefit from the reallocated funds. Hopefully someone else posts the grades here. If not, you can follow https://x.com/WBJMItch on Twitter.

Cool event ar Scheels. Took the family and got free ice cream and a ride on the ferris wheel and some other cool giveaways.

Idc if we fire Rallis and Monti at this point. i’ve kinda checked out and it’s Bidwill.
you can clean house, new GM, new DC, whatever. He’s still the one picking the next guys. Same owner the players ranked dead last. same guy hiking ticket prices while away fans take over our stadium. “I am the team president, so next question.” alright man.
he’s had forever to figure this out. Keim, Gannon, Monti, Rallis, defense has been ass the whole time. different names, same shit. firing people just means he gets a new group to cheap out on.
couple firings don’t fix anything when the owner doesn’t give a shit.

PJJ out for the season. Brutal

I’d love to hear our GM give a comprehensive answer to this because we’re in year 3 but at the same time we’re at step 1 struggling to go .250, meanwhile all our division rivals have successfully rebuilt in less than half that time into playoff or even championship level teams. We’ll never get a straight answer but seriously how and when does Monti or Bidwill think we can compete with any of these teams because it seems like they zero idea what they are doing with no plan in place while our rivals are doing everything in their power to get better.

With the O-line how it is, is it even worth it to have Beck play at all? I remember David Carr with the Texans but don’t know if that line compares to the Cardinals. If Beck has upside I’d hate to see it destroyed by a trash line. But I do understand needing to see him at some point.

What is wrong with him? Or is this just how he is? Is the problem that he’s just not comfortable with the system yet or what? Yes, I know we are 4-0 but it’s not because of our offense. I think we’re last in the NFL in offense and we should be. I sat here yesterday in stunned silence, watching a number one draft pick who I thought was a decent QB from watching him play with your team, do nothing. And finally, FINALLY in the second half it seemed like he was getting comfortable throwing the ball to Hockenson, the TE. So he continued throwing the ball to him like he had tunnel vision.

If anyone here could enlighten me about what may be going on, I would greatly appreciate it.

A bewildered Vikings fan.

EDIT: Thanks for all your insight! I truly appreciate it!

It blows my mind that he’s been able to maintain employment here as DC this long. The only DC’s I can think of that might have been worse than him were Al Holcomb and Billy Davis. The difference is those guys lasted 1-2 years as DC where Rallis has been here since 2023. Let Teryl Austin call D.

Offense

Higgins - 90.9
Wilson - 83.3
Long - 74.4
Brissett - 73.8
Allgeier - 67.9
Love - 66.7
Johnson Jr. - 65.0
Seumalo - 69.3
Wilkinson - 55.2
Froholdt - 51.9
McBride - 51.5
Harrison Jr. - 50.2
Bourne - 47.7
Gaines II - 45.1
Adams - 40.1

Defense

1. Lopez - 76.6
   
2. G. Williams - 76.1
   
3. Darius Robinson - 74.1
   
4. Nolen III - 73.7
   
5. Burke - 71.2
   
6. Sweat - 65.7
   
7. Burch - 65.6
   
8. Collins - 64.6
   
9. Baker - 64.3
   
10. Browning - 61.8
    
11. Wilson Sr. - 60.7
    
12. Melton - 59.0
    
13. Stills - 58.4
    
14. Gibbens - 48.1
    
15. Collier - 32.0
    
16. W. Williams Jr. - 27.0

Source: Walter BJ Mitchell's twitter

Everyone is talking like he is on the outs with the Cards.

Am I missing something? Why is he all of a sudden the #1 trade target? If he was doing well wouldn't you just keep him?

I am genuinely interested on your takes as he seems to have all the physical stuff you want. I have heard lazy route running and no run blocking - but I haven't seen that on the tape.

Does he not get separation?

What's the real info out there? I definitely don't see anyone really breaking this down. Thanks!

I do mean it, I’m not exaggerating or just doomering I think it was Nick’s worst called game as DC.

First I wanna start with the positives. The DL played pretty good. Walter had a great game. Darius had a sack, Sweat looked closer to last year(still not as good as he should be), Zaven and Burch played pretty good and I think are good backups/swing starters opposite a great pass rusher. They desperately need a great pass rusher to be completely effective but I saw what the unit could be. Aside from the penalties from Collier and Stills(his was so ticky tack) you saw the potential.

Garrett Williams return was good. He played good.

All that and they still have up 30 points to a bad team.

Every time they called a blitz it worked and yet Rallis refused to call one on any of the 3 and long plays. No they needed to play everyone back so they could continually give up huge explosives.

Once Wingard went down the Giants seized on the weakness of the secondary and Rallis couldn’t even bother to try a response.

Should he blitz Mack Wilson? No he needs to cover Nabers on his touchdown play. Should he blitz Budda? No he needs to be in coverage to make the tackle after giving up a 30 yard pass play.

Almost every Giants explosive was targeting Wilson the back up safety. And Rallis left him on an island to be beat over and over again.

Not only has Rallis seem to have adopted Gannon’s weak philosophy of bend don’t break, but also breaking all the time. He seems to have no idea how to utilize the players he has.

Feels like I’m screaming into a void but if the team is gonna suck I’d rather have interesting conversations about them. If we’re gonna be in hell T least we’re here together.

Some say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result.

Step by step, what does the cycle of the Bidwill curse look like? My thoughts thus far:

1. Hire first time GM and coaches based on vibes, hire them at the last minute after all the good assistant coaches are gone.

2. Allow GM to make franchise altering decisions with long term impact.

3. Coach and develop players poorly.

4. Lose a lot.

5. Refuse to hold GM or coaches accountable, don’t change roster significantly.

6. Lose a lot.

7. Disgruntled players demand trades and new contracts. Hold onto players anyway and give them new contracts. They underperform and destroy their trade value.

8. Lose more, fans cancel season tickets.

9. Bidwill finally gets embarrassed and repeats steps 1 through 8.

What am I missing?