Week 17 · 2025–26 season

Cardinals

L 14-37 at Bengals · Dec 28, 2025

85

Misery Index · Despair

Cardinals fans are openly rooting for draft picks, calling Gannon a historic failure, and checking out for the year.

The emotional rollercoaster

Fan misery across the game window. Up is worse.

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What happened

J.Brissett's 38-yard touchdown to M.Wilson was the lone bright spot, and even that came in a game where J.Burrow was carving up the secondary on every other possession — J.Chase's 22-yard strike set the tone before the first quarter ended. The fanbase has stopped pretending this is about scheme or personnel; the conversation has fully migrated to draft position and coaching tenure records. At some point, a 14-37 loss in Week 17 stops being a result and starts being a referendum.

What fans said

  • “Browns win! Our draft pick just went up”

    u/realdynastykit▲ 136pride

  • “Remember when they were only by one score??”

    u/TheSkullsOfEveryCog▲ 77frustration

  • “Finishing 3-14 after starting 2-0 is impressive”

    u/Slow-Raccoon-9832▲ 66sarcasm

  • “How are we so laughably bad so consistently?”

    u/V-Right_In_2-V▲ 37frustration

  • “Incompetence. Plain and simple. Starts at the ownership and runs downhill.”

    u/Hamster_Toot▲ 36frustration

  • “One of the worst franchises in all of professional sports and he’s about to own the worst win % for a Cardinals coach thru their first three seasons lol.”

    u/Bootycheeksclapin▲ 30rage

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