Arizona Cardinals - Know Your Rival 2026

Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

Brandan Schulze

Sports, Football

4.7 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

The Know Your Rival series rolls on to the team most Seahawks fans admittedly care the least about beating - the Arizona Cardinals. Arizona finished 3-14 last year, lost 14 of their final 15 games, and ran a defense that gave up more than 6,000 yards. So what did the Bidwills actually do about it? They fired Jonathan Gannon (now coaching in Green Bay), handed the keys to first-time head coach Mike LaFleur, spent the #3 overall pick on Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love, and for some unknown reason decided to reach on a third-round quarterback nobody wanted.

It's hard not to view their offseason as anything but a disaster. They're carrying $73 million in dead money, low-balling Jacoby Brissett after he started 15 games for backup pay, and now their own director of college scouting is suspended for leaking insider information and betting on football games. Could all this disfunction ultimately lead the team to land Arch Manning with the first pick? We break down exactly how close to zero that chance really is.

In the second half of the show, we've got some real Seahawks news. Our team has officially been sold, and we go through everything we know about the new ownership group. Plus we get into the backup quarterback battle that is "making news," Julian Love's push for real grass at Lumen Field and what it would take to get there. Finally, we close a Do Better call outs for the Cardinals Ring of Honor embarrassment and recognize Grey Zabel for two separate points in a recent interview this past week.

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0:00.0	This is the Seahawkers podcast.
0:09.0	Episode 502.
0:11.0	I'm Brandon Shultz of the military Seahawkers, and I am joined by my good buddy.
0:16.0	Adam Emmert, as we are nearing the end of July, kind of in the middle.
0:21.1	We're getting close to football season, buddy.
0:22.8	Yeah, I like how we're right in the middle of July.
0:24.9	Like, almost to the end because everybody's closer to football.
0:27.6	And I feel your pain.
0:29.4	But hey, it gives us a few minutes to continue on our Know Your Rival series that we do every
0:34.7	off season.
0:35.9	And you said this was episode 502.
0:38.0	I'm not sure this should count as a complete episode because we're talking about
0:41.8	the Cardinals.
0:43.1	Yeah.
0:43.7	It doesn't,
0:44.4	it doesn't really count,
0:45.7	right?
0:45.9	Because it is the Cardinals.
0:47.8	And I,
0:49.1	this one was the most difficult one to try and put together because I,
0:53.4	I care about the rivalry against the Nin together because I care about the rivalry against the
0:56.1	Niners. I care about the rivalry against the Rams. This one, I mean, they're there. Not a lot of
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