{"id":781256,"date":"2026-02-28T03:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/781256\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:08:28","slug":"friday-night-open-thread-what-is-your-reaction-if-the-arizona-cardinals-sign-this-player-to-be-the-quarterback-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/781256\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Open Thread: What is your reaction if the Arizona Cardinals sign this player to be the quarterback in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Happy Friday evening one and all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Arizona Cardinals and the rest of the NFL have descended on Indianapolis, IN for the 2026 NFL Combine and the rumors are flying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Good friend and former RotBer Johnny Venerable dropped some interesting nuggets on what he is hearing about the Cardinals situation at the NFL Combine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We have already discussed two of the names that have been linked to the Cardinals quarterback situation for when the team moves on from Kyler Murray:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Yet Johnny had a third name, and it would be\u2026 less than ideal:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Geno Smith to the Cardinals?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Would that just mean they are in full tank mode for the third time in Monti Ossenfort\u2019s four seasons and they are punting the quarterback situation to 2027?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I know he was fine three years ago and had his best season in 2022, but last season was abysmal, and the 2024 season led to the Seahawks moving on and then winning a Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What would you think of Geno Smith to the Arizona Cardinals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Friday evening one and all. The Arizona Cardinals and the rest of the NFL have descended on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,85477,14996,13241,2604,1327,7,6],"class_list":["post-781256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-cardinals","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-arizona-cardinals-discussion","tag-arizona-cardinals-news","tag-arizona-cardinals-rumors","tag-arizonacardinals","tag-cardinals","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116146059073287066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781256","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=781256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}