“Exaggerations and falsehoods,” Cardinals fire back at former team executive Terry McDonough after he accused the franchise of CHEATING

The former Cardinals VP Terry McDonough accused the team of cheating, harassment and discrimination.

“Exaggerations and falsehoods,” Cardinals fire back at former team executive Terry McDonough after he accused the franchise of CHEATING

Terry McDonough (Image via AP)

Arizona Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill has responded to the arbitration claim filed by the former Cardinals VP Terry McDonough accusing the franchise of cheating, harassment, and discrimination on Tuesday.

The former NFL executive Terry McDonough claims he and the former Cardinals head coach Steve Wilks didn’t have any other choice but to follow the owner Michael Bidwill’s plan to use burner phones to continue communicating with the general manager Steve Keim while the GM was serving a suspension after pleading guilty on a DUI case in Arizona.

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McDonough claims that he still has the burner phone which contains the evidence of scandal and some additional documents. McDonough also claims that when his objection to using the burner phone led to Bidwell demoting and damaging McDonough’s reputation around the league.

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“In response to McDonough’s objection to the illicit burner phone scheme, Bidwill cursed at, berated, and formally reprimanded McDonough, and ultimately demoted him — irrevocably damaging the trajectory of McDonough’s 34-year career in the National Football League,” the arbitration claim says. 

The league confirmed the receipt of the arbitration claim filed by the ex-Cardinals VP Terry McDonough on Tuesday and vowed to handle the issue “under the league’s arbitration procedures.”

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Cardinals deny Terry McDonough’s cheating accusations

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Following the arbitration claim filed by the former front office executive Terry McDonough accusing the Arizona Cardinals of cheating, the franchise legal team has responded denied Michael Bidwill’s part in the burner phone allegations.

The attorneys for the Cardinals claim that after the new GM Monti Ossenfort told McDonough that he will not be retained after his contract expires in 2024, “in retaliation (McDonough) filed his arbitration demand and launched a publicity campaign, both of which are full of exaggerations and falsehoods about the Cardinals organization and its President.”

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“Mr. McDonough’s filing is full of allegations and assertions that, while colorful, are not true and do not state viable legal claims,” the team’s attorneys said in the response. “Mr. McDonough has been hanging onto this salacious yet fictitious story since the summer of 2018 and occasionally threatened to make it public.”

Furthermore, they also claim that a senior football executive who no longer works for the franchise handed the burner phones off. When Bidwill learned about the phones, he allegedly ordered everyone to return the phones since it was a misguided act and was against the rules of the league.

Earlier this year, McDonough was informed the new general manager would not keep him and three months later he filed his arbitration claim but he remains on the organization’s payroll under his old contract.

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