{"id":589445,"date":"2026-04-17T08:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589445\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:51:09","slug":"cardinals-wont-name-a-starting-quarterback-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589445\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals won&#8217;t name a starting quarterback right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word in March was that Jacoby Brissett <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jacoby-brissett-hasnt-been-told-hell-be-the-cardinals-starter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">has not been told<\/a> that he is in line to start at quarterback for the Cardinals and nothing has changed over the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Brissett closed out last season as the starter in Arizona and Kyler Murray was released early in the offseason, but Brissett\u2019s experience came under a different head coach and General Manager Monti Ossenfort said at a Thursday <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/broadcasts\/1yKAPMlbzVaxb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">press conference<\/a> that the team is \u201cnot really naming anybody and we\u2019ll see how that room works by the time we get to August.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gardner Minshew signed with the team as a free agent and head coach Mike LaFleur said that the current focus for both quarterbacks is on things other than the depth chart. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, none of that is even being discussed because all we\u2019re trying to do is get a foundational aspect of what the system looks like,\u201d LaFleur said.<\/p>\n<p>LaFleur said he\u2019s comfortable with the makeup of the quarterback room because both Brissett and Minshew have played a lot of football over their previous stops around the league. The Cardinals could add another signal caller with less experience in next week\u2019s draft and the coming competition would be a wider one as a result. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Word in March was that Jacoby Brissett has not been told that he is in line to start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-589445","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\/589445","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=589445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}