In a sea of team-produced schedule-release video (some of which have morphed into way-too-long short films), there are two ways to stand out. One, be really good. Two, be really bad.<\/p>\n
As to the latter, the Cardinals are the 2026 champions.<\/p>\n
Via Yanyan Li of Front Office Sports, the Cardinals\u2019 offering was relentlessly mocked as \u201cAI slop<\/a>.\u201d Because, frankly, it is. Watch for yourself<\/a>. (And then peruse the replies.)<\/p>\n Li notes that the Arizona effort apparently prompted multiple other teams to emphasize that they did not use AI in the creation of their schedule-release videos.<\/p>\n Regarding the substance of the Cardinals\u2019 video, the mascot-driven effort didn\u2019t resonate for most. The vast majority of the jokes simply didn\u2019t land.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no requirement for teams to make a schedule-release video. And it\u2019s also not mandatory that the effort be aimed at going viral in a good way. For every team that chooses to try, there\u2019s a risk it will go viral in a bad way.<\/p>\n Which the Cardinals have learned, the hard way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a sea of team-produced schedule-release video (some of which have morphed into way-too-long short films), there are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-647004","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\/647004","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=647004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}