It is common k
Citation needed on a three-year plan.
Monti made a choice to be a four-win team last year. He gets no credit for building up to mediocrity. I don’t know why people choose to start the clock on Monti’s tenure six months after he took the job.
The 3 year plan is common knowledge. No one has disagreed on that. You can ask anyone here. It was in his introductory press conference. But even if you don't think that is a big thing, it is how I personally am coming to my own opinion on Kyler. I think 3 years is enough for the rebuild around him and he has no excuse beyond that. I also thought his contract was up in 2025 until about 5 minutes ago lol.
I agree with you. I am not giving anyone credit for a 8 win season besides maybe our defensive coordinator and by extension Gannon's role in that. I am not celebrating and I am not happy but I predicted 9-8 at the beginning of the year. So it is hard for me personally to feel extremely disappointed assuming we win today.
Monti let us down so to speak. He didn't think we would be able to go 6-4 and lead the division so quickly. He didn't see that possibility coming. Well now Geno and Stafford are aging and SF is a big question mark for 2025. He better be ready to make all the moves.
Let me try to extend an olive branch to you and everyone here who is obviously entitled to their opinion on Kyler and other issues.
If we agree on the fact that we need more talent to make a superbowl contending team, that is the most important thing for me. If Kyler played great all year and we won 10 games or so, I don't think we are making any sort of run in the playoffs at all. I didn't see it when the season started and even when we were in first place, I was merely hoping winning the division would give us a good chance to win a playoff game.
Like if we got to play MINN again here. But even if that happened, I would be inclined to bet against us vs whoever our next opponent would have been.
I am not a "Kyler Murray life-long fan." I am Chicago native who came to AZ in 1997 who became a fan when Warner led us to the Superbowl and I stayed a fan through the seasons afterwards.
I have never had a Kyler Murray Jersey even though I have had other Cardinals ones in the past. I always believed James Conner was the best player on our offense. I want Murray to be able to make a mistake where that doesn't automatically make 50% of the fan base think we are going to lose cuz we absolutely need him to play well every game.
And when he threw 2 INTs early vs SEA, I realized we don't have the potential to comeback when we are down like other playoffs team do.
There will be a game next year (in the playoffs hopefully), where we have a horrible start. The other team has a kick return TD and we fumble in our side of the field etc. Or Kyler might even throw a pick six. And we will down 13-0 in the 2nd qtr.
What our fans deserve more than anything is feeling like this team can come from behind against a good defense and win. When the luck doesn't go our way like it did sometimes this year. That we have the raw talent necessary to overcome that. If Monti doesn't address our many offensive issues, many of which Kyler is intertwined with, we will never win with Gannon.
It is not enough to have a disciplined team who plays defense and has possession WRs and a dominant RB and TE. What we have found out is that even when Kyler had played well with this group, we are not showing the explosion people expected.
It is time for the AZ media and the fanbase to recognize that not only were we wrong about the defense being horrible. We were also wrong to think Harrison was the last piece we needed on offense. That doesn't mean he sucks, (although I wish he would catch more TD's he dropped) It simply means we need more talent on offense.
More to compete when DET and BUF play a 48-45 game.
I hope that is something all of us can agree with.People who think Kyler should be playing better are keying in on something more specific that all of us realize.
We couldn't beat playoff caliber opponents when Kyler was not playing well. Naturally we all know this but we react with a different opinion of Kyler instead of recogning we are on the same page in the big scheme of things. And I hope you also realize THIS IS NOT THE WAY IT SHOULD BE. Your QB doesn't need to play well every game he plays vs a playoff team in order for a football team to win.
Even Mahomes, has constantly needed his defense at times in the playoffs when he has average games like vs BAL last year.
Wouldn't it be nice if we had a team talented enough where the QB didn't have to be the main point of discussion whether you liked him or not?
That is what Monti needs to accomplish this offseason.
Thank you for this cogent contribution to the thread.
