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Cardinals roasted over schedule release video

Jessica Boehm

Arizona Cardinals mascot head on the field at State Farm Stadium, with a large video screen behind, metal trusses overhead, and cheering fans in the stands. — Big Red failed his first task of the season. Photo: Bruce Yeung/Getty Images

The Cardinals suffered their first embarrassment of 2026 this week — four months before the NFL season begins.

The big picture: The league has turned the annual schedule release into a social media opportunity, with each team posting pop culture-y videos about their opponents.

The Raiders spoofed Step Brothers. The Chargers ran with a "Halo" theme. The Packers produced more than two minutes of claymation.
And then there was us.

Zoom in: The Cardinals video appeared to be an AI-generated Zoom meeting with the league mascots.

The video mostly consisted of the mascots sitting in silence, blowing up the Zoom chat with (not very funny) jokes while an animated "Director of Mascot Matchups" (whose mouth did not move) narrated.

The online responses were lethal:

"How does this team have fans genuinely asking," Youtube football analyst Garret Greenlee posted on X.
"We just awful at everything aren't we," X user @LockdownWill posted.
And there were quite a few wisecracks about wasting Arizona's water to make AI slop.

The bottom line: With one of the toughest NFL schedules, we're guessing this won't be the worst loss the Cardinals show us this year.

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