{"id":877094,"date":"2026-09-02T06:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877094\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T06:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:14:13","slug":"brian-gutekunst-talks-with-cardinals-about-josh-sweat-never-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877094\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Gutekunst: Talks with Cardinals about Josh Sweat never happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The offseason consisted of a rumor that the Cardinals would be trading linebacker Josh Sweat to the Packers. On Tuesday, the man in charge of the Green Bay roster denied that it was ever a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one from our organization has had a conversation about Josh Sweat from anyone at Arizona,\u201d Gutekunst said, via Ryan Wood of USA Today. \u201cThat\u2019s coming out of thin air, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByRyanWood\/status\/2094787784867250605?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">someone is making stuff up<\/a>, because that never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A report emerged in the offseason that the Cardinals <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/report-cardinals-receiving-trade-calls-about-josh-sweat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">were receiving calls<\/a> about Sweat. And the Packers made sense on the surface; Sweat reunited with former Eagles offensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon after Gannon became the head coach of the Cardinals. With Gannon now the defensive coordinator in Green Bay, it\u2019s a logical connection of the dots.<\/p>\n<p>And to the extent the Packers had any interest in Sweat, it wouldn\u2019t have taken much to kick-start a conversation. The Brothers LaFleur coach the two teams. It would have been easy for Matt to gauge with Mike whether a deal would have been possible.<\/p>\n<p>Sweat is entering the second season of a four-year, $76 million deal with the Cardinals. In 17 starts last season, Sweat had 12.0 sacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The offseason consisted of a rumor that the Cardinals would be trading linebacker Josh Sweat to the Packers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-877094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}