What's next for Jacoby Brissett, Cardinals? - ESPN

TEMPE, Ariz. — Even though Jacoby Brissett's holdout for a reworked contract is coming to an end this week during the Cardinals' minicamp, his future as Arizona's starting quarterback is still in flux.

Whether that's deserved is the debate.

Detractors of Brissett look at his 1-11 record as the Cardinals' starter in 2025 after replacing an injured Kyler Murray in Week 6. It's a way — and for many of his critics, it is the primary way — to support the argument that he shouldn't be holding out for a new contract.

The 33-year-old Brissett wants more guaranteed money for this season, a source has told ESPN, and Brissett stayed away from the team all offseason, until this week, waiting for a decision to be made one way or the other. Brissett will attend this week's mandatory minicamp, sources told ESPN, meaning he'll be at the facility, in meetings and in the weight room. The question is whether he'll practice.

Only time will tell if holding out was the right move for Brissett, who faces these potential outcomes: (A)The Cardinals give him a reworked contract for this season, (B) they don't and he has to decide whether to play on his current deal, or © they trade or release him.

However, as the debate about whether he's to blame for his 1-11 mark — and the greater argument about whether wins and losses are quarterback stats — rages on, a number of statistics support the other side of the Brissett debate: that he wasn't wholly responsibly for Arizona's record with him behind center and that he actually has a case for wanting a new contract.

Here's a look at what that argument looks like:

Doing his part: Sometime in the 1980s, former New York Giants coach Bill Parcells uttered a sentence that has come to define many quarterbacks: