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That was an absolute TRAVESTY of a game. I haven't been this disgusted in a while when it comes to a team that isn't the Rams, but the Cardinals made me sick tonight.
While I'm not saying it's a position unique to me, I have been of the opinion that the NFL has a massive problem with coaching and management. Look at how many incompetent people are put in these positions.
General managers who can only crunch numbers and can't value talent for shit. Others stick their teams in salary cap hell. Some can't put together a scouting or coaching staff if their lives depended on it.
Steve Keim hasn't done a satisfactory job stocking the Cardinals with talent and has made terrible choices in free agency, like the Bradford contract. His vaunted drafting acumen has dropped off a cliff and now most of that credit should go to Arians. He and the ownership have also completely blown their coaching search and part of that is his strange addiction to Mike McCoy, who will be mentioned soon.
Steve Wilks was an uninspiring hire, to say the least. He mediocrely ran a Panthers defense that had a good bit of talent and had already been established and ran better by Sean McDermott. He falls into this job and immediately made massive changes to a defense that was working fine before he got there and has turned it into a pile of trash. Going from a 3-4 defense with a man coverage philosophy to a 4-3/4-2-5 zone based defense has been a disaster, especially considering that the roster has not been built for it over the years, because why the hell would it be. This abrupt change was done with no thought and is also misusing one of their best players in Patrick Peterson. They can't set a consistent defensive line-up, especially at linebacker because their linebackers are undersized and out of place in this new scheme. What a great head coach he is.
Mike McCoy is an offensive mind that would make Jeff Fisher look like a savant with how worn-out and uninspired his schemes and play calls are. An interesting stat I've heard is that the Cardinals are 28th in rushing attempts and yet are 1st in rushing attempts up the middle. This is with David Johnson as running back. The same David Johnson that is well known for his ability as a receiver, but is involved as a receiver on 3% of their passing plays, and when he is, it is usually as a checkdown option, not being lined-up out wide and used to create mismatches like he was with Arians. If there was any justice in the world, McCoy would be exiled to Elba.
Here's a tweet that shows an overlay of David Johnson's carries this year and where they end up.
View: https://twitter.com/jamesdkoh/status/1053029418552090624?s=21
This isn't the first time McCoy has wasted a talented running back and ground a potentially talented offense to a halt. He did the same shit with the Chargers and Melvin Gordon, who during his rookie year with McCoy score 0 touchdowns. Imagine being so shitty that you can keep a scoring machine like Gordon out of the end zone. Perhaps McCoy should switch over to coordinating defenses.
McCoy has only been in the positions he has been in because he was carried by Peyton in Denver for a bit. Due to that, he has gotten a chance to ruin the Chargers as a head coach and the Cardinals as an offensive coordinator in this league. Stop giving HACKS like this jobs in this league. There should be standards at this level.
Say what you will about Arians, but he was a really good coach. He took what is basically the same team as the one this year, except with Blaine Gabbert and Drew Stanton for the majority of the year and made it an 8-8 team. He took Blaine Gabbert and beat the Jaguars with him because he was that damn good at what he did. This new look Cardinals team is an embarrassment and an indictment on the league and its hiring practices.
All that said, the most egregious thing McCoy and Wilks did tonight, besides continuing to be morons who are embarrassingly in over their heads and couldn't prep a fucking sandwich, is they kept Rosen in the game late in a 30+ point blow out to attempt a 4th and 16 conversion. Rosen was hurt on the play. On a play, he should have been never involved in. That alone should be grounds for a firing.
The point is, there is a lot of worthless and incompetent people in charge of NFL franchises. This is a league wide problem. Thankfully, the Rams "took a risk" on a guy who was "too young" to coach in the NFL and it has paid off because they had the courage to hire a guy who knew his shit instead of going for some uninspiring, "safe", or retread option like so many other franchises do because they are either stupid or gutless.
Now coaches and front office types being cowards at the NFL level... That's another discussion for another time.
EDIT: The Cardinals are 4-24 on third down conversions these past two weeks and are dead last in third-down conversion rate at 23% this year. This is some legit final year of Fisher offense going on here. We are talking historic futility.
While I'm not saying it's a position unique to me, I have been of the opinion that the NFL has a massive problem with coaching and management. Look at how many incompetent people are put in these positions.
General managers who can only crunch numbers and can't value talent for shit. Others stick their teams in salary cap hell. Some can't put together a scouting or coaching staff if their lives depended on it.
Steve Keim hasn't done a satisfactory job stocking the Cardinals with talent and has made terrible choices in free agency, like the Bradford contract. His vaunted drafting acumen has dropped off a cliff and now most of that credit should go to Arians. He and the ownership have also completely blown their coaching search and part of that is his strange addiction to Mike McCoy, who will be mentioned soon.
Steve Wilks was an uninspiring hire, to say the least. He mediocrely ran a Panthers defense that had a good bit of talent and had already been established and ran better by Sean McDermott. He falls into this job and immediately made massive changes to a defense that was working fine before he got there and has turned it into a pile of trash. Going from a 3-4 defense with a man coverage philosophy to a 4-3/4-2-5 zone based defense has been a disaster, especially considering that the roster has not been built for it over the years, because why the hell would it be. This abrupt change was done with no thought and is also misusing one of their best players in Patrick Peterson. They can't set a consistent defensive line-up, especially at linebacker because their linebackers are undersized and out of place in this new scheme. What a great head coach he is.
Mike McCoy is an offensive mind that would make Jeff Fisher look like a savant with how worn-out and uninspired his schemes and play calls are. An interesting stat I've heard is that the Cardinals are 28th in rushing attempts and yet are 1st in rushing attempts up the middle. This is with David Johnson as running back. The same David Johnson that is well known for his ability as a receiver, but is involved as a receiver on 3% of their passing plays, and when he is, it is usually as a checkdown option, not being lined-up out wide and used to create mismatches like he was with Arians. If there was any justice in the world, McCoy would be exiled to Elba.
Here's a tweet that shows an overlay of David Johnson's carries this year and where they end up.
View: https://twitter.com/jamesdkoh/status/1053029418552090624?s=21
This isn't the first time McCoy has wasted a talented running back and ground a potentially talented offense to a halt. He did the same shit with the Chargers and Melvin Gordon, who during his rookie year with McCoy score 0 touchdowns. Imagine being so shitty that you can keep a scoring machine like Gordon out of the end zone. Perhaps McCoy should switch over to coordinating defenses.
McCoy has only been in the positions he has been in because he was carried by Peyton in Denver for a bit. Due to that, he has gotten a chance to ruin the Chargers as a head coach and the Cardinals as an offensive coordinator in this league. Stop giving HACKS like this jobs in this league. There should be standards at this level.
Say what you will about Arians, but he was a really good coach. He took what is basically the same team as the one this year, except with Blaine Gabbert and Drew Stanton for the majority of the year and made it an 8-8 team. He took Blaine Gabbert and beat the Jaguars with him because he was that damn good at what he did. This new look Cardinals team is an embarrassment and an indictment on the league and its hiring practices.
All that said, the most egregious thing McCoy and Wilks did tonight, besides continuing to be morons who are embarrassingly in over their heads and couldn't prep a fucking sandwich, is they kept Rosen in the game late in a 30+ point blow out to attempt a 4th and 16 conversion. Rosen was hurt on the play. On a play, he should have been never involved in. That alone should be grounds for a firing.
The point is, there is a lot of worthless and incompetent people in charge of NFL franchises. This is a league wide problem. Thankfully, the Rams "took a risk" on a guy who was "too young" to coach in the NFL and it has paid off because they had the courage to hire a guy who knew his shit instead of going for some uninspiring, "safe", or retread option like so many other franchises do because they are either stupid or gutless.
Now coaches and front office types being cowards at the NFL level... That's another discussion for another time.
EDIT: The Cardinals are 4-24 on third down conversions these past two weeks and are dead last in third-down conversion rate at 23% this year. This is some legit final year of Fisher offense going on here. We are talking historic futility.
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