Bruce Arians - “Arizona Was Going to Draft Deshaun Watson”

[TJ]

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[Zeem_Freeze]

would rather have KM

 

[Ronin]

Oh.

 

[Matt L]

would rather have KM

Would rather have Watson and Arians

 

[Solar7]

Wow, look, now people can stop claiming we were not going to try at all to fill the position. We just got beat with a ridiculous compensation package from both teams.

 

[SoCal Cardfan]

I'm waiting for the BA scoop where he admits "retiring" in lieu of firing the most useless ST's coach in the history of the NFL.

 

[ARZCardinals]

Well Cardinals went from an All Pro QB to poop all in the moments of 1 pick...OUCH

 

[kerouac9]

I'm waiting for the BA scoop where he admits "retiring" in lieu of firing the most useless ST's coach in the history of the NFL.

Cleveland is 17th in Special Teams DVOA. Arizona is 29th.

 

[Harry]

So Keim missed two quality QBs because he wouldn’t move then he finally moved for Rosen; interesting!

 

[TheCardFan]

Ouch!

Kudos to the Texans for making it happen.

We should have had a better plan B

 

[cardsfanmd]

Ouch!

Kudos to the Texans for making it happen.

We should have had a better plan B

I dunno. The plan B Keim executed was pretty awesome.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

Cleveland is 17th in Special Teams DVOA. Arizona is 29th.

Pretty sure Amos is back with BA in Tampa.

 

[Zeem_Freeze]

So Keim missed two quality QBs because he wouldn’t move then he finally moved for Rosen; interesting!

very very interesting... down with Keim!

 

[SoonerLou]

So Keim missed two quality QBs because he wouldn’t move then he finally moved for Rosen; interesting!

Third time's a charm




Rosen got us Murray.


Yea Keim should have went all in on Watson. Texans are a playoff team today because of it.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

Pretty sure they would’ve taken Mahomes too had KC not traded in front of the Cards.
BA was on the radio during his off season of coaching and said Mahomes was the best on the white board he’d seen since Peyton Manning.

 

[kerouac9]

Pretty sure Amos is back with BA in Tampa.

Tampa is 19th in Special Teams DVOA.

BUT LOOK WHO IS ON THE BROWNS STAFF!!!

 

[wa52lz]

Tampa is 19th in Special Teams DVOA.

BUT LOOK WHO IS ON THE BROWNS STAFF!!!

Jim Dray?

 

[BigRedRage]

Ouch!

Kudos to the Texans for making it happen.

We should have had a better plan B

yeah. sounds like we crapped the bed and made a poor decision once he got scooped up./

 

[BigRedRage]

• Offensive quality control – Jim Dray

 

[Russ Smith]

I would rather have Redick (-:

Yeah that and Mahomes were painful knowing we wanted them and just didn't make the move to get them.

 

[Chopper0080]

So Keim missed two quality QBs because he wouldn’t move then he finally moved for Rosen; interesting!

This is what happens when you are reactive rather than proactive.

 

[Solar7]

So Keim missed two quality QBs because he wouldn’t move then he finally moved for Rosen; interesting!

Harry, I love your takes almost everywhere else, but looking at this one as Keim’s fault doesn’t make any sense. Are you proposing we should have given up a first round pick to move up 1-3 spots? The fan base would have rioted, we would have been laughing stocks... for QBs that at the time, people were heavily questioning.

We just didn’t have the right position to make a move. Plenty of people were questioning if Mahomes and Watson would even go in the first round.

And at the end of the day, neither of the teams trading back were going to turn down a future first round pick for whatever we were offering.

 

[football karma]

not that what BA confirmed was a surprise, but I guess its good to know for sure.



it also fits my (totally speculative and unsubstantiated) theory that BASK went into that draft certain that they would have either Watson or Mahomes at #13, and when Watson got scooped up right in front of them ….. they went to a poorly vetted and thought out door #3: Hassan Reddick

I also think the "he was in our top 5" thing was them trying to put a happy face on a scenario they didn't anticipate.

 

[SoCal Cardfan]

Cleveland is 17th in Special Teams DVOA. Arizona is 29th.

So Amos changed his name to Mike Priefer?


I did not know that.


He takes his direction from someone else, which means he's still a boat anchor drawing a paycheck because of Bruce Arians.

He is an ASSISTANT special teams coach.... C'mon K9

 

[PACardsFan]

So Keim missed two quality QBs because he wouldn’t move then he finally moved for Rosen; interesting!

As usual, we can blame Keim because the Cardinals weren't proactive enough to move up and go after Mahomes & Watson. Harry, you've been around long enough to know that the Cardinals franchise NEVER EVER moved up in a situation like that. Bill didn't do it & neither did Michael. Until we moved up to pick Rosen, I'm not sure we EVER moved up to pick a QB in the 1st round. We pretty much always sat and waited. Exactly why I always prefer the Cardinals lose meaningless games at the end of the season. If we didn't have the 1st pick last year, we never would have moved up to try to pick Murray. Especially since Rosen flopped. We are not a dysfunctional franchise because of Steve Keim. We're dysfunctional because of the Bidwills. Don't get me wrong, the Bidwills are great people. But, boy do they struggle as owners of a professional football franchise.