Mack Wilson Sr. just handed the Los Angeles Rams a gift they did not need, and PFN’s Jacob Infante did not let it slide.
“Mack Wilson just gave the Los Angeles Rams bulletin board material,” Infante said on the most recent Football Debate Club. “Somebody asked him about his thoughts on the Rams trading for Myles Garrett, and Wilson said they gotta come through us.”
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The actual quote was close to that. Asked at Cardinals minicamp about the Garrett trade, Wilson said, “They gotta deal with us. At the end of the day, they gotta deal with us.” The sentiment is the same, and so is the problem.
Infante did not dismiss the mindset so much as the timing. “The Arizona Cardinals, you’re in a rebuilding situation,” he said. “Nobody’s expecting you guys to be great.”
That tracks. The Cardinals went 3-14 in 2025, moved on from Jonathan Gannon, and handed the program to Mike LaFleur, who arrives from a Rams team that went 12-5 and reached the NFC Championship Game.
Infante’s case starts with how loaded Los Angeles already was. “The Rams were in the top five in offense impact and defense impact scoring by Pro Football Network’s metrics,” he said.
Then came the additions. “You bring in Myles Garrett, you bring in Trent McDuffie, and you bring in Jaylen Watson,” Infante said. “How do you stop those guys genuinely? You’re just adding bulletin board material.”
The names back him up. Garrett is the reigning two-time Defensive Player of the Year who set the single-season sack record with 23 in 2025. McDuffie arrived from Kansas City and got paid like a top corner, and Watson, his former Chiefs teammate, signed to line up beside him.
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The aggression has a reason. The Super Bowl returns to the Rams’ own SoFi Stadium in February, and Los Angeles is building to win it in their building. Sportsbooks noticed, with DraftKings shortening the Rams’ title odds after the Garrett deal landed.
There is a personal twist, too. Wilson and Garrett were teammates in Cleveland from 2019 to 2021, so he knows exactly what he just challenged.
The Cardinals have lost five of their last six to the Rams and meet them twice this fall, and Sean McVay now has a quote to pin to the wall. Infante does not expect it to age well.
“The Rams are going to come back, they’re going to beat Arizona, and they’re going to make him look silly,” he said. Belief is fine, but it does not block Garrett, and the talent gap just widened.
