Steve Keim - The 750K GM......

[40yearfan]

I thought Ferguson had GM experience with the Bills.

Assistant GM.

 

[Hollywood]

I pretty much disagree with everything you said. I appreciate your feedback, and I will state now, you can't change my mind. I think people who think the way you do are sticking their heads in the sand. You obviously think I can't see any of the positives that are out there.

As far as building houses and building teams, they aren't that different, you just choose to see them that way. They both start with a blueprint/idea, they both require someone to pay for the contractors and materials, they both require key people to make decisions and keep the process rolling along, and materials to build with. The more experience those key people have in the building process generally leads to a smoother and more accurate completion of the desired blueprint.

You disagree with facts???

No candidates that came to town for an interview signed with another team.
2 of 4 candidates that they interviewed did not pass on the Cardinals
Bill Cowher, Mike Smith, John Harbaugh, Mike McCarthy, Sean Payton, Andy Reid and Mike Tomlin didn't have any HC experience when they were hired.
Reid and McCoy signed at the first team they visited

All facts

 

[crisper57]

Steve wore his big boy pants today...

 

[Chopper0080]

So answer me this. How many people were available with head coaching experience when the Cards started to interview? There were 8 teams looking for a HC and only one of them hired a coach with previous HC experience. Your statement doesn't hold water. Same for the GM position. And where do you get Keim is being paid a lower wage. Have you not been reading this board about his $1.3 million dollar salary? I know you posted in that thread.

They made Whis one of the highest paid HC's in the NFL and Grimm was one of the highest paid assistant HC's. Most people thought our coaching staff was top notch and comparable to any other NFL team. It's obvious Grimm and Miller weren't as advertised, but the rest of the staff on both sides of the ball were good people. Whis was allowed to assemble his own staff and most of them came at a premium to get them to move from their existing teams. I'm sure you don't remember all the discussion on this board when Whis was putting his staff together, but the consensus at that time including a lot of football pundits was that the Cards were shelling out a lot of bucks to get the coaches they wanted.

I notice you are still living 10 years in the past. Until you get to the present day Cardinals, you will be under the wrong impression and unaware of the major changes this team has made. You give them no credit for keeping all their core players or upgrading their defense to one of the better in the NFL. This team is poised to make a leap this year if they can get the right HC. The pieces are in place. All it takes is the right leader.

Clancy Pendergast DC
Bill Davis DC
Mike Miller OC
Ray Horton DC

No one called any of these guys a top notch squad when they were hired. Of those 4 coordinators, only Horton has been able to prove that he is anything but a bust of a coordinator. Hell Whis was only given a raise after he outperformed his contract and Cardinals history by taking us to the playoffs two years in a row.

Coaches with head coaching experience that were hired? Andy Reid, Chip Kelly, Trestman, and Doug Marrone. So 50% that have been hired had some head coaching experience. Lovie Smith is still available and he has head coaching experience. I will give the Cards credit, Arians has some experience being the head coach at Temple in the 80's. When I say coaches the Cardinals have hired don't have ANY head coaching experience, I mean 0. No college, no Canadian league, no Arena, no NFL, NONE.

As for Keim, 500k bumping him up to around where Graves was paid is not much of a change in terms of what top GMs around the league get paid. Now, should the Cards have paid unproven Keim a top GM salary? No, of course not. My point is, we have NEVER spent the money to hire an experienced GM in the past 30 YEARS. NEVER. It is no wonder that strategy has never worked.