TJ
Frank Kaminsky is my Hero.
Whether you like Murray or not, it’s hard to argue that this front office is anything but dysfunctional. After last season’s series of poor choices, it “earned” the number one pick and had some cap space; and with all of that, the opportunity to fill the number of holes on the team.
Going into the offseason, the five biggest needs on the team were:
~OL
~DL
~LB
~WR
~TE
Quarterback was an afterthought. Josh Rosen was the guy. No questions asked.
Enter Kliff Kingsbury; a sub-.500 college coach who *happens* to be a lot like Sean McVay. He then sells the team on taking a QB who *might* be a shell of Russell Wilson. So in essence, the team is trying to copy two teams within its own division. If we’re to believe the rumors, we’ve known for months that Murray was the pick, which would make Rosen expendable. The front office plays a game to see how much it can get for Rosen. It never initiated offers nor countered offers it was given. What did it expect to get without putting its best foot forward in dealing a guy who people now know is expendable? The return on Josh Rosen is going to be peanuts not because Josh Rosen is a bad QB, but because the team failed to sell him or the #1 pick.
So who’s really in charge of major personnel moves on this team? It was long rumored that Bidwill went over Keim’s head to hire Wilks. It was Kliff’s decision to take what was Arizona’s most valuable asset in many years to pick another quarterback.
It’s no secret that Keim’s draft resume is substandard. His first-round picks have either been busts or injury-prone. Not one has really stood out as a blue chip player. He didn’t help himself with the DUI, either. From what I’ve learned from Keim these past 6 years is that he has a number of intangibles he looks at in his prospects: Heart, mind, and commitment. Murray comes to this team with question marks in all three categories, along with the physical considerations. Is Keim feeding us a load of BS, or has he lost his ability to make significant personnel decisions? Because at this point, it seems as if Bidwill is allowing Kliff to take charge of the team’s best asset in years.
Keim is powerless. The tail is wagging the dog.
And if that is the case, and Keim can’t be trusted to make significant decisions, we have a major issue with the front office. If we think it stops at wasting the #1 pick and subsequently failing to get value for the QB it’s trying to replace, we’re merely pawns in their futile efforts to get back to relevancy. The team has spent too much time trying to be a facsimile of two of its division rivals that it doesn’t even have a semblance of its own identity. This is not the behavior of a front office that is in constant contention. This is the behavior of a front office in disarray that mirrors some of the porous teams in recent memory, including the Cleveland Browns.
Going into the offseason, the five biggest needs on the team were:
~OL
~DL
~LB
~WR
~TE
Quarterback was an afterthought. Josh Rosen was the guy. No questions asked.
Enter Kliff Kingsbury; a sub-.500 college coach who *happens* to be a lot like Sean McVay. He then sells the team on taking a QB who *might* be a shell of Russell Wilson. So in essence, the team is trying to copy two teams within its own division. If we’re to believe the rumors, we’ve known for months that Murray was the pick, which would make Rosen expendable. The front office plays a game to see how much it can get for Rosen. It never initiated offers nor countered offers it was given. What did it expect to get without putting its best foot forward in dealing a guy who people now know is expendable? The return on Josh Rosen is going to be peanuts not because Josh Rosen is a bad QB, but because the team failed to sell him or the #1 pick.
So who’s really in charge of major personnel moves on this team? It was long rumored that Bidwill went over Keim’s head to hire Wilks. It was Kliff’s decision to take what was Arizona’s most valuable asset in many years to pick another quarterback.
It’s no secret that Keim’s draft resume is substandard. His first-round picks have either been busts or injury-prone. Not one has really stood out as a blue chip player. He didn’t help himself with the DUI, either. From what I’ve learned from Keim these past 6 years is that he has a number of intangibles he looks at in his prospects: Heart, mind, and commitment. Murray comes to this team with question marks in all three categories, along with the physical considerations. Is Keim feeding us a load of BS, or has he lost his ability to make significant personnel decisions? Because at this point, it seems as if Bidwill is allowing Kliff to take charge of the team’s best asset in years.
Keim is powerless. The tail is wagging the dog.
And if that is the case, and Keim can’t be trusted to make significant decisions, we have a major issue with the front office. If we think it stops at wasting the #1 pick and subsequently failing to get value for the QB it’s trying to replace, we’re merely pawns in their futile efforts to get back to relevancy. The team has spent too much time trying to be a facsimile of two of its division rivals that it doesn’t even have a semblance of its own identity. This is not the behavior of a front office that is in constant contention. This is the behavior of a front office in disarray that mirrors some of the porous teams in recent memory, including the Cleveland Browns.
