{"id":480533,"date":"2026-02-20T20:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/480533\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:31:07","slug":"michael-bidwill-gets-pressed-on-the-absence-of-a-cardinals-team-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/480533\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bidwill gets pressed on the absence of a Cardinals team president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday\u2019s groundbreaking ceremony for a new Cardinals practice facility likely wasn\u2019t supposed to be contentious. It got that way, a little.<\/p>\n<p>Via Theo Mackie of the Arizona Republic, owner Michael Bidwill faced several questions about the fact that his franchise doesn\u2019t have a team president.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why the team doesn\u2019t have a president, Bidwill said, \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/cardinals\/2026\/02\/19\/arizona-cardinals-michael-bidwill-hits-back-team-president-role\/88766040007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=true&amp;gca-epti=z116843p118850c118850v116843d--55--b--55--&amp;gca-ft=177&amp;gca-ds=sophi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I am the team president<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked why the team doesn\u2019t have a president who is independent from ownership, Bidwill said, \u201cI am the team president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether that\u2019s the best way to operate the team, Bidwill said, \u201cNext question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only seven NFL franchises don\u2019t have a president. The others are the Cowboys, Giants, Buccaneers, Bengals, Steelers, and Colts. <\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals have a G.M., a COO, a CFO, a chief legal officer, and a chief people officer.<\/p>\n<p>A team president would add an expensive line item to the budget. By doing the job himself, Bidwill avoids that expense. Which turns whatever the salary and benefits for the team president would be into additional profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday\u2019s groundbreaking ceremony for a new Cardinals practice facility likely wasn\u2019t supposed to be contentious. It got that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-480533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}