According to Over The Cap, the Cardinals have the third-most cap space in the league ($25 million) with the majority of big-name free agents gone. It’s not like the Cardinals are strapped for cash this year. The front seven might be the worst in the league right now and the secondary is held together by safeties Budda Baker and Jalen Thompson. The defense that Gannon is going to oversee during his first year in Arizona is a far cry from the defense that he coached all the way to the Super Bowl in Philadelphia. Defenders Zach Allen and Byron Murphy left for new teams in free agency and they each had contracts that the Cardinals could have been competitive with. So far, it doesn’t seem like they have too much urgency on that front. New head coach Jonathan Gannon and new GM Monti Ossenfort have a ways to go before the Cardinals can get back to competing with the top of their division. The Cardinals have had a very quiet offseason up to this point, using free agency to tinker with the bottom of their roster coming off an abysmal 4-13 season that forced a change at head coach and general manager. Are the Cardinals quietly quitting on the 2023 season already? This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. That belief isn’t rooted in reality, but it is anchored in feeling, a feeling that hasn’t existed within the Falcons' fan base for quite some time. It’s an incorrect opinion, but not entirely uncommon in certain sectors of the fan base. Look, it’s not right, but there are still people who believe Michael Vick was a better quarterback in Atlanta than Matt Ryan. Not only is he an ideal fit for what head coach Arthur Smith would like his offense to look like, but there might not be a fan base ready to embrace Jackson and his talents more than the Falcons'. Jackson is the player the Falcons need to have within their organization right now. For multiple reasons, this made absolutely no sense - and the Falcons are willingly passing on an ideal option to reinvigorate interest in the team after a handful of poor seasons in a row. The Falcons were the first team to bow out of the Jackson sweepstakes following Jackson receiving the non-exclusive franchise tag from the Ravens. Lamar Jackson has had a quiet start to his time under the franchise tag with no teams making a push for him, for whatever reason, but there’s one team that should have swung harder to get Jackson than any other franchise: the Atlanta Falcons. Falcons should have been all over a Lamar Jackson trade
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