We Just Lost To Kliff Kingsbury

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Whats funny is if that team keeps going on this offensive trajectory, he will 100% be a HC again...
 

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Whats funny is if that team keeps going on this offensive trajectory, he will 100% be a HC again...
And it will be just as big a mistake as the Cards handing him the keys to the car. He's a decent offensive coordinator (let's see if he can do it well for a whole season without being figured out), but he absolutely doesn't have the personality to be a successful head coach.
 

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And it will be just as big a mistake as the Cards handing him the keys to the car. He's a decent offensive coordinator (let's see if he can do it well for a whole season without being figured out), but he absolutely doesn't have the personality to be a successful head coach.
I don’t disagree with that one bit
 
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Kingsbury's come a long way since being fired from the Cardinals after a dismal 2022 season, one where he says he nearly lost his love for the game and called it quits entirely.

"All I'd done is football for a long time, and I was just like, 'Hey, I've had enough.' The last year in Arizona was just ... a lot of things we went through made it feel like it was not for me anymore," Kingsbury told ESPN's John Keim in an interview.

One source close to Kingsbury told ESPN, "It was Hard Knocks, Kyler [Murray] was hurt and pissed off. There was a ton of stuff. Injuries."

ESPN's John Keim also highlighted that Kingsbury and Murray's relationship soured towards the end of their tenure together, as Kingsbury would avoid confrontation with players in the locker room and even struggled with key figures such as owner Michael Bidwill and general manager Steve Keim.
 

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Kingsbury's come a long way since being fired from the Cardinals after a dismal 2022 season, one where he says he nearly lost his love for the game and called it quits entirely.

"All I'd done is football for a long time, and I was just like, 'Hey, I've had enough.' The last year in Arizona was just ... a lot of things we went through made it feel like it was not for me anymore," Kingsbury told ESPN's John Keim in an interview.

One source close to Kingsbury told ESPN, "It was Hard Knocks, Kyler [Murray] was hurt and pissed off. There was a ton of stuff. Injuries."

ESPN's John Keim also highlighted that Kingsbury and Murray's relationship soured towards the end of their tenure together, as Kingsbury would avoid confrontation with players in the locker room and even struggled with key figures such as owner Michael Bidwill and general manager Steve Keim.
Sounds like he was not ready to be an NFL Head Coach.

Maybe he has matured. Or maybe OC is his ceiling.
 

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Sounds like he was not ready to be an NFL Head Coach.

Maybe he has matured. Or maybe OC is his ceiling.
I always maintained that will be an OC for a very long time in the NFL. In my mind, he's a younger Norv Turner.
 

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he had a great deep ball when he was throwing to Hopkins. Since Hopkins left, he has not been able to complete deep passes. In reality Hopkins was great at jump balls. Murray never was good at long passes.
 
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he had a great deep ball when he was throwing to Hopkins. Since Hopkins left, he has not been able to complete deep passes. In reality Hopkins was great at jump balls. Murray never was good at long passes.
Murray was amazing at deep balls his rookie year. Murray's deep ball has just gotten worse and worse ever since Tom Clements left.
 
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Sounds like he was not ready to be an NFL Head Coach.

Maybe he has matured. Or maybe OC is his ceiling.
"... I don't think I set the foundation [in Arizona] the way I would do it after watching DQ [Dan Quinn] and how he set the foundation from day one. These are the standards, this is what we want, this is what we're going to be," Kingsbury said.

"I definitely could have done a better job of that and kind of once you don't lay it out like that, it's hard to put it back in."
 

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"... I don't think I set the foundation [in Arizona] the way I would do it after watching DQ [Dan Quinn] and how he set the foundation from day one. These are the standards, this is what we want, this is what we're going to be," Kingsbury said.

"I definitely could have done a better job of that and kind of once you don't lay it out like that, it's hard to put it back in."
Glad he is realizing that.

And note - Quinn failed his first time as a HC, so looks like he learned lessons as well.
 

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