{"id":232945,"date":"2025-07-24T18:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/232945\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T18:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:11:11","slug":"with-moves-like-trey-mcbride-extension-cardinals-have-avoided-camp-distractions-unlike-other-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/232945\/","title":{"rendered":"With moves like Trey McBride extension, Cardinals have avoided camp distractions unlike other teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cardinals have been pretty drama free. Jonathan Gannon knows it, and with a smile he noted it wasn’t always the case.<\/p>\n

“When I first got here I had to talk to Budda,” Gannon said. “‘I want you here, buddy.'”<\/p>\n

That was in 2023 when safety Budda Baker asked for a trade because the end of his contract was coming. The Cardinals eventually tweaked his deal to get Baker in-house, and before the season ended, the Pro Bowler had his extension<\/a>. (And made sure it wasn’t a problem in 2024, which would have been the last year of Baker’s deal.)<\/p>\n

“That was a phenomenal dinner,” Gannon said.<\/p>\n

The subject came up because of how much the Cardinals haven’t had to deal with such things. As much as blocking dummies and 7-on-7, contract issues somewhere in the NFL during training camp is part of the landscape. You just hope it isn’t an issue on your team.<\/p>\n

So this year while the Bengals, Commanders and, to a lesser extent, Cowboys, (Trey Hendrickson, Terry McLaurin, Micah Parsons), the Cardinals are good. And have been.<\/p>\n

There might have been something. Star tight end Trey McBride was going into the last year of his rookie contract. That could’ve been a thing. But GM Monti Ossenfort made sure it wasn’t, publicly saying at the Scouting combine in February it was a priority and then executing the deal a little more than a month later<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It’s a business so I understand why these things happen,” Gannon said. “Monti has done a really good job and (owner) Michael (Bidwill) has done a really good job to eliminate a lot of those for us. When you can eliminate a lot of those now you can concentrate on football and getting better and you’re not worried about distractions.<\/p>\n

“Now, distractions are only distractions if you let them be that. But we are talking about people’s lives too so I understand it. I’m very grateful we’re in this spot as we sit here today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals have been pretty drama free. Jonathan Gannon knows it, and with a smile he noted it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,1054,2874,7,1053,1052,6,35265],"class_list":{"0":"post-232945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-darren-urban","13":"tag-darrens-blog-v2","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-home-page-news-headlines","16":"tag-mega-feed","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-training-camp-2025"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114909563056384801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}