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The Cardinals–Terry McDonough situation is another workplace black eye for the NFL, in an increasingly long string of such cases. And you do have to start here—the jumping-off point for the case is, of course, a dispute between a single employee and his employer, and the damage the employer did to the employee’s career. To that end, when an arbitrator decides on the complaint, they will decide to what extent Arizona damaged McDonough.
That said, deep in the details of the complaint, McDonough opened two Pandora’s boxes in a three-paragraph nuke fired directly at Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill.
