Cardinals Facilities Slammed on Pat McAfee Show

The Arizona Cardinals didn't win the Sean Payton sweepstakes, and the Pat McAfee Show believes their facilities in Tempe could have played a role.

The Arizona Cardinals swung and missed on Sean Payton, who is set to coach the Denver Broncos next season after the team reached an agreement with the New Orleans Saints that involves a handful of early draft picks heading to the Bayou. 

Payton interviewed with the Cardinals last Thursday and speculation built that Arizona could potentially land their next head coach, but Denver eventually swooped back in the race and landed their guy despite the high price tag. 

On the Pat McAfee show yesterday, former Arizona Cardinals offensive lineman AQ Shipley discussed how the facilities in Tempe may have prevented Payton from taking the open job in the desert.  

"That facility has not changed since then. It hasn't," said Shipley, who landed with the Cardinals as a free agent in 2015 before playing four seasons in Arizona. 

McAfee then went on a rant on NFL teams without bubbles (practice fields with a dome to maintain ideal conditions, which the Cardinals do indeed have at their facility) that ended with, "It's the highest level. How come this bush league stuff still happens? I didn't know this until Hard Knocks, but if this is a real reason why Sean Payton is not their head coach, that's ineptitude isn't it? Is that not ineptitude?"

What's going on with the Arizona Cardinals facilities @aqshipley...#PMSLive pic.twitter.com/URcUktJXh5

— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) January 31, 2023

There was also some more from McAfee which was a bit more profanity laced. You can watch in the tweet below:

@PatMcAfeeShow on the ARIZONA CARDINALS facilities:

“Sorry bout it, pal. You’re in the NFL. Sell the team, if you don’t want to be in the NFL or act how NFL teams should act.”

Former players saying how shitty our facilities are. Bidwill you cheap fuck, do something about it. pic.twitter.com/4m2GQCtN0r

— Ben Bliklen (@benbliklen) January 31, 2023

Cards Wire's Jess Root pointed out the following:

-The Cardinals opened their $4.2 million practice bubble in 2013.

-They expanded the weight room in 2015 to 9,000 square feet. "That same offseason, Arizona upgraded the locker room, added a cafeteria and a hydrotherapy area. They redid meeting rooms. They expanded the facility by 92,000 square feet and invested more than $15 million into the facility," said Root.

"For Shipley, who spent several seasons with the team, to suggest that things were old and outdated, is simply incorrect."

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