Who's your pick for GM 2019?

[DevonCardsFan]

Keim is done, he created this mess and embarrased the Cards on and off the field. So he is going to replace him? Who are some good candidates out there?

 

[cardncubfan]

Steve Keim.

 

[NJCardFan]

Bill Polian

 

[Jasper]

Terry McDonough is next man up.
Unless we hire an outsider which I don’t see is willing to come here without an exorbitant price.

 

[az jam]

IMO Keim will be back.

 

[Buckybird]

Peyton Manning

I’m dead serious!

 

[thephoenixson28]

Keim

 

[Krangodnzr]

Jeebus!!! Keim has to be done.

But who should the Cardinals hire? No idea. So often the hot candidates turn out to be terrible.

 

[TJ]

The only situation in which I felt that both Wilks and Keim would be fired is if there was mass exodus from the team, which showed a little potential earlier this week. Now that the PP21 situation is contained for now, I doubt Keim gets fired. Barring a complete 180, I think Wilks gets fired, but Keim stays for at least one more year.

 

[Cheesebeef]

The only situation in which I felt that both Wilks and Keim would be fired is if there was mass exodus from the team, which showed a little potential earlier this week. Now that the PP21 situation is contained for now, I doubt Keim gets fired. Barring a complete 180, I think Wilks gets fired, but Keim stays for at least one more year.

man i hate that scenario... that means you give Keim, who should be completely at the end of his rope one more year? Which means he not only gets to hire a new coach... but if that doesn't work out, he's gone, which brings a new GM who will be stuck with Keim's leftover coach?

I believe it was Keim himself who said it best when not re-signing a guy like Dansby or Calais players... sometimes it's better to move on from a guy a year too early rather than a year too late. And moving on from Keim wouldn't even be early considering the train wrecks he's caused off and on the field this year.

All that said, I think we're going to be idiots and fire Wilks, but stick with Keim another year simply because Bidwill isn't going to eat both of WilKeim's contracts. Which means he'll be handing an alcoholic GM the keys to the car... with a buttload of cap space, a top 3 pick and another big coaching hire to decide. What could possibly go wrong? After all, look how well that EXACT same scenario worked for the Suns and McD this past summer!

DON'T BE THE SUNS, FOR THE LOVE OF SPORTS!!!

 

[NJCardFan]

I'm serious when I say Polian. The man built 3 NFL franchises into contenders including an expansion team. I know he's part owner of that new football league(Alliance of American Football) but we need someone like him.

 

[Gandhi]

Terry McDonough is next man up.
Unless we hire an outsider which I don’t see is willing to come here without an exorbitant price.

I agree, Jasper, and McDonough is actually the exact reason why I don’t see them firing Keim at the end of the season. I think McDonough has been to several interviews in the past, and I believe he was a finalist for the Niners-job a couple of years ago before they hired Lynch. At least he has been a hot name in the hiring circles for years. In other words, he is definitely capable. When Keim got his punishment this summer, and really brought embarrassment to the organization, it was McDonough who served as the interim general manager, yet Michael Bidwill still decided to keep Keim and insert him in his previous job after the punishment. It would have been easy at that point to fire Keim and let McDonough take over full-time. Now they risk losing McDonough to another organization, and they would still decide to let Keim go? I don’t think so. I suppose they could make a complete turnaround with new coaching staff, new front office and, as a consequence, at least half a new squad, but such a drastic change would take years to hopefully become a success, and if it did happen everyone should forget about the playoffs in the near future.

 

[Garthshort]

Buckybird, if Elway can move into a GM job, why not Peyton. Good call.

 

[Finito]

SK

 

[cardncubfan]

man i hate that scenario... that means you give Keim, who should be completely at the end of his rope one more year? Which means he not only gets to hire a new coach... but if that doesn't work out, he's gone, which brings a new GM who will be stuck with Keim's leftover coach?

I believe it was Keim himself who said it best when not re-signing a guy like Dansby or Calais players... sometimes it's better to move on from a guy a year too early rather than a year too late. And moving on from Keim wouldn't even be early considering the train wrecks he's caused off and on the field this year.

All that said, I think we're going to be idiots and fire Wilks, but stick with Keim another year simply because Bidwill isn't going to eat both of WilKeim's contracts. Which means he'll be handing an alcoholic GM the keys to the car... with a buttload of cap space, a top 3 pick and another big coaching hire to decide. What could possibly go wrong? After all, look how well that EXACT same scenario worked for the Suns and McD this past summer!

DON'T BE THE SUNS, FOR THE LOVE OF SPORTS!!!

He's built this team from the ground up to a winner when he was hired. He'll do it again.

 

[cardpa]

If Wilks is gone after the season then Keim must also go. I think it's safe to say Keim is not on solid footing at this point. The worse scenario you can create is to keep Keim, hire a new coach, let Keim draft and then after the 2019 season decide you are getting rid of Keim. Now you have a one year coach who will now inherit a new GM and a new philosophy and a new direction that may or may not mesh with the one year head coach. You want to screw up the franchise long term then this is the way to do it. If Keim isn't gone along with Wilks then expect Keim to be here at least three more years. If you decide to make the change then do it all at once, suffer through the pain once and move forward. Bidwill should not take this half way and then create a situation where you are shaking things up twice by letting Wilks go at one point and then letting go Keim a year later that is unless you like the franchise reacquiring the label as laughing stock of the NFL.

 

[overseascardfan]

He's built this team from the ground up to a winner when he was hired. He'll do it again.

He probably can if he isn’t running the draft or free agency.

 

[StreetTruckinTitan]

Id give Keim till the end of his current contract to see if he can right this ship? I think the inept coaching staff is the main cause of the poor performance on the field. I like Keim but his draft picks have been more misses than hits. Is that all on him or did BA have a lot of input on the players chosen? Still, Id love to pony up to a bar with Steve and have a beer or five and just pick his brain.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

The only situation in which I felt that both Wilks and Keim would be fired is if there was mass exodus from the team, which showed a little potential earlier this week. Now that the PP21 situation is contained for now, I doubt Keim gets fired. Barring a complete 180, I think Wilks gets fired, but Keim stays for at least one more year.

It doesn’t make sense to stagger hirings. If you do you keep sticking a gm with someone else’s coach. When you have good reason to clean house you do so.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

I agree, Jasper, and McDonough is actually the exact reason why I don’t see them firing Keim at the end of the season. I think McDonough has been to several interviews in the past, and I believe he was a finalist for the Niners-job a couple of years ago before they hired Lynch. At least he has been a hot name in the hiring circles for years. In other words, he is definitely capable. When Keim got his punishment this summer, and really brought embarrassment to the organization, it was McDonough who served as the interim general manager, yet Michael Bidwill still decided to keep Keim and insert him in his previous job after the punishment. It would have been easy at that point to fire Keim and let McDonough take over full-time. Now they risk losing McDonough to another organization, and they would still decide to let Keim go? I don’t think so. I suppose they could make a complete turnaround with new coaching staff, new front office and, as a consequence, at least half a new squad, but such a drastic change would take years to hopefully become a success, and if it did happen everyone should forget about the playoffs in the near future.

As we have had to forget about the playoffs in the present and near past? This is year three no playoffs with Keim at the helm. Methinks the two playoff years had more to do with BA than Keim. In fact maybe in spite of Keim. Keeping the dreck that’s currently in place and gave us 1-6 certainly does nothing to improve our playoff odds in the near future as you seem to be suggesting.

 

[gimpy]

I would think the coach has a lot of say on who is drafted?

But, the gm would have the final say (along with the owner).

 

[Finito]

He's built this team from the ground up to a winner when he was hired. He'll do it again.

Didn't he just fleece the Raiders to move up 5 spots and get out QBOTF?

Got to give him time

 

[Finito]

As we have had to forget about the playoffs in the present and near past? This is year three no playoffs with Keim at the helm. Methinks the two playoff years had more to do with BA than Keim. In fact maybe in spite of Keim. Keeping the dreck that’s currently in place and gave us 1-6 certainly does nothing to improve our playoff odds in the near future as you seem to be suggesting.

You know damn well we would of made the playoffs had injuries not happened, that's just bad luck

 

[Cheesebeef]

Didn't he just fleece the Raiders to move up 5 spots and get out QBOTF?

Got to give him time

everyone fleeces the Raiders. That's a low bar to set.

I just can't believe want to give this guy more time. He had a meteoric rise, that now none of us know whether it was due to him or Arians and has had as bad of a meteoric CRASH as anyone I've ever seen. Entrusting the keys to the car to a drunk both on and off the field lately just seems like such a bad decision.

Let me ask you this Finito... were you okay with McD getting to make major decisions about all of the Suns future this off-season?

 

[Cheesebeef]

You know damn well we would of made the playoffs had injuries not happened, that's just bad luck

wha? We would have made the playoffs last year? Did you watch how painfully mediocre (which is being kind considering the 2 of their wins came in OT against the Colts and Niners who were amongst the worst teams in the league) the team was even when Palmer was healthy last year?

This team was NOT positioned to make the playoffs last year if everyone stayed healthy. AND, the idea that everyone needs to stay healthy to make the playoffs is an indictment in of itself if you want to be a playoff team. The Pats, Eagles, Vikings all had MASSIVE injuries up and down their roster, some even at QB and all not only made the playoffs, but conference title games AND the Super Bowl.