The Arizona Cardinals found themselves in the news last week when former vice president of player personnel Terry McDonough filed a request for arbitration against the Cardinals, alleging cheating, misconduct and wrongful firing.
Among the allegations, McDonough claims Bidwill either knew or spearheaded a scheme to maintain communications with general manager Steve Keim during his five-week suspension in 2018 using burner phones.
He claims Bidwill creates a hostile work environment, verbally attacked a pair of pregnant women and that minority employees work in fear.
The Cardinals countered with a statement of evidence to the contrary, painting McDonough as unstable, hard to work with and allege evidence of domestic abuse in his home.
NBC Sports’ Peter King wrote this in his Monday column.
Great quote from McDonough to me Saturday: “I am Will McDonough’s son.” Meaning: I’m going to fight this one hard, the way my dad would have. Will, one of the great football columnists of all time, did not take guff from anyone, ever.
If the league rules there will be arbitration, this could get even uglier.
But Cardinals fans should be used to bad news these days.
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