Feb. 20, 2026, 9:50 p.m. MT<\/p>\n
Arizona Cardinals<\/a> owner Michael Bidwill got a little bit chippy with one local reporter on Thursday. On the day that the team had a groundbreaking ceremony for their new training facility, expected to open in 2028, Bidwill addressed reporters.<\/p>\n Bidwill was asked about a role in the executive staff for the team. After serving as team president from 2007-2019, he became team owner after his father, Bill Bidwill, died. There has been no named team president since then.<\/p>\n Bidwill was asked why there hasn’t been a team president hired since then. His response was curt, and he didn’t wish to elaborate further.<\/p>\n “I am the team president,” Bidwill said. “I am the team president, so next question.”<\/p>\n The answer clears up why there has been no team president hired. However, the way in which he answered the question leaves one to want more.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n It is a legitimate question, as he has never previously come out and said he would continue to act in a president’s role despite being named owner.<\/p>\n That said, there is a better way to answer it. Bidwill clearly enjoys being part of football decisions. He doesn’t want to be a hands-off owner, and that’s fine. It is his team. But he could say that.<\/p>\n Yes, the question did suggest that perhaps someone else should be more involved in the football decisions than Bidwill, but it is a fair question.<\/p>\n It is things like this where many don’t take what the Cardinals do all that seriously.<\/p>\n Does he need to hire a team president? One could argue it would help the team be better. But it is his team.<\/p>\n Sadly, things like this get in the way of the team. Whether it is curt answer about the team president, allegations of poor workplace behavior, or a weird interview process, the Cardinals seem to get in the news for things other than football.<\/p>\n Get more Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from Cards<\/a> Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 20, 2026, 9:50 p.m. MT Arizona Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill got a little bit chippy with one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2078],"tags":[95878,375,390,2604,1327,7,6,95973,95974,95882,95890,95888,95895,95899,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-766641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcardinals","16":"tag-sstsncardinals","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagarizona-cardinals","19":"tag-tagnfl","20":"tag-tagnfl-hub","21":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","22":"tag-tagsports-news","23":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116108301706746990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766641","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=766641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}