The Arizona Cardinals are now on a downturn of 10 losses in their last 11 games, with the divisional record now at 0-5 with blowout losses in the last three.

The last three divisional losses have come by a combined score of 130-61. Those games have continued to plague head coach Jonathan Gannon, as he’s now 3-14 in such games during his Arizona tenure.

The loss kept the Cardinals on pace for a top-10 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, where Arizona would be poised to go best-player-available because of the amount of holes on the roster.

It enters the final four games of the season at 3-10, with another matchup with the Rams still on the docket. It will face the Texans, Falcons and Bengals in the meantime.

Atlanta and Cincinnati are right behind Arizona in the draft order (Nos. 8-10) after Sunday, meaning those games could be crucial to determining the draft order.

Rapid reactions from Arizona Sports hosts, reporters to Cardinals-Rams

John Gambadoro, co-host of Burns & Gambo:

The Arizona Cardinals are irrelevant. Yes, the Cardinals are irrelevant.

We care more in this town about the Diamondbacks offseason, the Suns making the playoffs, the potentially No. 1-ranked Arizona Wildcats and sneaky good Sun Devils in college hoops. I was at Desert Financial Arena Thursday and Friday to watch ASU volleyball advance to the Sweet 16, and that is much more entertaining!

The Cardinals are good at one thing: losing, as this is now their 20th double-digit losing season in Arizona.

You can blame, Kyler, JG, Monti, Petzing, Big Red or anyone you want but most of us know the truth. It starts at the top it always does and the one person that deserves the most blame for another awful season is Michael Bidwill. And you can’t fire the owner, unfortunately. Rarely does anything he decides to do on the field work.

This version of the Arizona Cardinals is like many of the others — only this season was over by Halloween and we are just playing out the strings. All of us are just waiting for the season to officially come to an end so we can do as we always do: talk about the draft, free agency and next season. But will anything ever really change? Can Arizona ever become a consistent contender? It’s so hard to believe that they will unless ownership decides enough is enough and proves to the fan base that they care as mush as the fans do. 

Dave Burns, co-host of Burns & Gambo:

The chasm between the Cardinals and the other three teams in the NFC West gets wider by the game. Whether it’s talent evaluation, coaching, player performance/development or ownership, the Rams, 49ers and Seahawks just know how to do it better. They’re consistently superior to the Cardinals. With each passing week and in particular, each blowout loss to a division rival, that chasm gets wider and wider and the work the Cardinals have to put in to close the gap gets harder and harder.

What the Cardinals will do to address that this offseason, I have no idea. But there is nothing the Cardinals can do to change the idea that they’re nowhere near ready to compete with these three teams. That doesn’t mean they can’t compete, and that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t try. It means there isn’t a magic elixir move — coaching change or a front office move or a player acquisition — that will make anybody think it’s going to be any different in 2026. That’s how wide this gap is.

Tyler Drake, Cardinals reporter and co-host of Cardinals Corner:

The Arizona Cardinals have now allowed at least 41 points in three of five divisional losses after Sunday’s thrashing.

The point differential (169-96) is glaring as is the epic falloff from expectations this team once had. The Cardinals should be fighting for playoffs in Year 3 under the current regime, not jostling for position near the top of the draft order. I entered this week believing that while it’s been a failure of a season, head coach Jonathan Gannon was still safe for 2026. These types of lopsided losses against the teams you face twice a year are starting to make that thinking hard to stand by.

The questions are aplenty and the answers are not at this point.