The 2025 season has been an absolute disaster for the Arizona Cardinals.
Star players have been lost due to injuries. Arizona’s NFC West counterparts all look like Super Bowl contenders. Even the Cardinals best pass rusher can’t get invited to the Pro Bowl!
Disaster may actually be a tame description of this season in Arizona, especially considering the relatively high expectations the team had entering the season.
“Unmitigated disaster” could work better for the 3-13 Cardinals.
And despite all the negativity, Arizona head coach Jonathan Gannon is not worried about his future in the desert.
Gannon: “I feel good” About Status with Cardinals
Well, there you have it folks, Jonathan Gannon is staying with the Cardinals for the 2026 season. He said it himself, after all.
When asked by ESPN reporter Josh Weinfuss about his job status on Monday, Gannon responded with, “I’m not going to get into all that Josh, but I feel good.”
No NFL head coach is going to come out and say that he expects to be fired, but Gannon seemed more self-assured than one would expect a coach in his position to be.
Jonathan Gannon was then asked about it some more, he said, “I have confidence in myself.”
These answers from an NFL head coach are not that notable in a vacuum. However, Gannon is overseeing a Cardinals team that has lost eight games in a row.
And in Gannon and the Cardinals’ defense, not all of their 13 losses are awful. They have one-score losses to the 49ers, Seahawks, Colts, Packers, Jaguars, and Buccaneers on their ledger.
Unfortunately for Arizona, it also has blowout defeats to its three divisional rivals, the Texans, and most recently a 37-14 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 17.
It’s one thing to lose to the Bengals, but to only score 14 points against Cincinnati’s awful defense? A fire-able offense.
Arizona should thank the Las Vegas Raiders for not being the worst team in the American desert Southwest.
Jonathan Gannon’s Tenure with the Arizona Cardinals
Through three seasons, the Jonathan Gannon tenure has not gone great in Arizona.
Following the Cardinals loss to the Bengals on Sunday, Gannon now has a 15-35 record as head coach of Arizona. That is a .300 winning percentage.
It does not take a mathematician or a football savant to know that is a very bad record. In Gannon’s defense, a 4-13 first year is not horrible considering he was taking over a bad program with a bad roster.
Things improved in his second season in 2024, as the Cardinals finished 8-9, which was good for third in the NFC West.
But there is no reason Arizona should only have three wins as we enter the new year. Kyler Murray’s injury certainly did not help, but it’s not like he was playing great before he went out for the season, either. The existing talent on the Cardinals and a decent backup quarterback in Jacoby Brissett should have been able to squeak out a few wins here and there.
Just look at how the New Orleans Saints and Miami Dolphins have closed out the season. Not good, but not a complete disaster akin to the Cardinals.
As the standings get finalized in Week 18, it seems odd that Jonathan Gannon is so confident that he will be back in Arizona for 2026.
Maybe he knows something we don’t.
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