Arizona Cardinals 21-22 home loss to the Titans—the worst team in the NFL—trauma-inducing.
Since this article is about legalities, me, a legal expert, will invoke some of my more educated, advanced legal knowledge; some real Murphy’s Law shit went down in Glendale.
Win gifted to Tennessee in a bakery box full of the most exotic turnovers ever created; center snapping the ball off Kyler Murray’s face, the backup’s backup, Emari Demercado, throwing the ball out of the back of the endzone about a yard before he scored—gave the Titans a sweet tooth.
We all handle trauma differently. Personally, I never leave the house. “Hey, what are you doing tonight?”, “Ah, man, I gotta stay in and write”. In reality? Just watching Alien: Earth. Don’t understand shit in that show. Too many similar haircuts, ya know what I mean?
Cardinals head coach, Jonathan Gannon, didn’t handle his trauma well.
you gotta hear the mic’d up audio of the Jonathan Gannon punch pic.twitter.com/SxoggtSGYu
— The Coachspeak Index (@CoachspeakIndex) October 8, 2025
He punched Demercado in the chest.
The NFL fined Gannon $100,000 for the incident.
Why can’t coaches hit the players?
JK.
I pray you didn’t open this article, prepared to hear the case for why managers should beat their employees.
Especially Jonathan Gannon—a head coach with a 14-25 career win-loss record—whose own imperfections, week after week, day after day, locked the Cardinals below .500,
Year 3, Gannon knows, Wildcard Weekend, resume updating, fresh off a pink slip because the center snapped the ball off his quarterback’s helmet in a disgusting Week 5 loss to a local Nashville Boys and Girls Club after-school squad.
Ya know? Younger me hated the revolving door of head coaches but, truthfully, these players risk their lives, every play.
Alex Smith stepped on a land mine.
Damar Hamlin died.
Emari Demercado is a third string running back, in the membrane of the most important run of his life, 71 yards to the crib, statement maker, give. him. the. ball, premature celebrated down his leg, euphoria to annihilation in a blink.
Jonathan Gannon, understanding, he, too, tip-toeing on thin ice, shattering him into a pit of unemployment, next to Nicki Minaj’s husband and Jordon Hudson, soon; had an opportunity to display grace, mercy, humanity to one of his own players, guys he needs to prevent the sale of his Arizona home.
If we’re punching mistakes, Jonathan Gannon should be in the ICU. If mental lapses are punishable by battery, Gannon’s gotta meet Mark Sanchez in an alley.
The Arizona Cardinals spend their next Sunday in Indianapolis, a team with a +74 point differential, best in the league. If the Cardinals don’t look prepared, we all get to punch Gannon in the chest.
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