Cardinals Head Coaching Candidates 2023
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Now that's interesting. Thought the Cards had moved on to other candidates.
JerkFace
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Putting Flores on Weds between Kafka and Lou make the timeline make a little more sense. I still think they could have tightened it up a bit. It will have been 16 days between Flores’ first and second interview. Seems like we could have done his second interview this weekend. If he doesn’t get the job, and all the DC jobs dry up, he will have every right to be pissed.
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So Callahan, Vance and Glenn are the only ones who didn't take another job or drop out of contention and aren't set up for another interview yet? The field is narrowing itself down quicker than Mike is narrowing down the field.
blindseyed
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Looks like we'll sign a coach around the same time Kyler returns from his injury lol
Snakester
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Top three to me now are
Brian Flores
Shane Steichen
Lou Anarumo
To me Flores is most qualified and would be the best coach to give us a great defense. I think he would be best for our young linebackers and he plays a man defense.
Brian Flores
Shane Steichen
Lou Anarumo
To me Flores is most qualified and would be the best coach to give us a great defense. I think he would be best for our young linebackers and he plays a man defense.
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Denver just did. Ejiro Evero is now Carolina's D-C.
Vance doesn’t need a second interview. He is still lurking in the process
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Nope. He signed with Carolina.
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Two 'confirmed' finalists is the most recent report. That doesn't mean there are only two in the running.
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Quite the opposite, to my mind.
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We're not hiring Flores as a D-C (at this point).
SoonerLou
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Reich and Erivo would have been a solid duo..
Ouchie-Z-Clown
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Didn’t we do that with whis and Grimm?
JerkFace
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I had heard that they had an agreement between each other beforehand that if only one got a HC gig then the other one would join his staff. So it was less of a cardinal thing and more of a Whis/Grimm thing.
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I think Anarumo is out. If I were setting up the interviews, I‘d say Kafka was the gamble, so he goes first. He‘s the best choice if you want to focus on Murray. He unquestionably has the best background in QB development of any candidates, including Reich. So you must ask do you feel saving Murray is critical? If so and Kafka is confident and convincing, you pick him. You sign him immediately. Coming from the Giants who were cleaning up a big mess, the Cards job may not intimidate him. The presence of 2 personnel front office gurus could be very reassuring to him.
If you detect any apprehension, you pass and hope for a good OC & maybe QB Coach.
Up next is Flores. If you haven‘t hired Kafka, then Flores is your HC. He would only have gotten a second interview because your new GM endorsed him, but Ossenfort would have likely accepted Kafka if he did a great second interview. The choice is Flores for all the reasons Brit has been saying. He wasn‘t my top choice but he‘s the best remaining option. You rarely get a chance to hire a winning HC. He also won with a front office trying to lose. That means his team played for him. He’s tough and there will be turnover. Murray could well be part of that turnover. Anarumo is out because your GM accepts Flores and Anarumo is simply less qualified. You don‘t let Flores leave unsigned. He will sign or he blows up his lawsuit.
If you detect any apprehension, you pass and hope for a good OC & maybe QB Coach.
Up next is Flores. If you haven‘t hired Kafka, then Flores is your HC. He would only have gotten a second interview because your new GM endorsed him, but Ossenfort would have likely accepted Kafka if he did a great second interview. The choice is Flores for all the reasons Brit has been saying. He wasn‘t my top choice but he‘s the best remaining option. You rarely get a chance to hire a winning HC. He also won with a front office trying to lose. That means his team played for him. He’s tough and there will be turnover. Murray could well be part of that turnover. Anarumo is out because your GM accepts Flores and Anarumo is simply less qualified. You don‘t let Flores leave unsigned. He will sign or he blows up his lawsuit.
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Agree but would Flores keep VJ?
MaoTosiFanClub
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Um you compared a theoretical Kafka hiring with the Kliff hiring when their resumes look basically nothing alike aside from both having coached Mahomes.
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Maybe they only have the super super free zoom where you’re permitted just one forty minute interview per day?
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Flores is just NOW getting a 2nd interview?! WTF. Where are all those people telling me they didn’t need to interview Flores a second time because of how well they knew him from 2018.
This has gotten so pathetic and unfocused to point of hilarity.
This has gotten so pathetic and unfocused to point of hilarity.
BirdGangThing
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I've been on the Flores float since the first interview. Just seems to check all the boxes and can fine tune our defense this season as I imagine there will be no hurry to get Kyler Murray back on the field
Jasper
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I think this would be a turn off for many candidates. What’s the point in picking a HC that can’t select his own staff?
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BirdGangThing
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And again, idk where this Vance Joseph staying in Arizona yuck yuck started, and that he'll be forced on the new Head Coach. Probably from the same people who said nobody wants to coach in Arizona (equally as dumb)
