Week 17 · 2025–26 season
Cardinals
L 14-37 at Bengals · Dec 28, 2025
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.
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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