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I acknowledged that I think there's probably some inherent and subconscious racial bias at work in many situations around NFL hiring practices. I'm just tired of that being the go-to excuse for the main reason why a black coach was fired or passed over for a job, particularly when there are many other reasons to point to.
Zac Taylor was a stunning and stupid hire!
I’m sure there are plenty of talented assistants wondering how the f**k Kliff Kingsbury got an NFL head coaching job.
However, Kliff was a college coach, so management of an organization was present.
Yeah but he stunk up the place as his alma mater. How that qualified him for an NFL job is a mystery to me.
Agree totally, but amazed that many assistants who have never ran programs get chances
This ain't about that.
But, he looks like Ryan Reynolds doe!
I think it is fair to point out that there are always "other reasons to point to." A guy could be straight up fired because the owner is tired of having that n***** run his team, and at least publicly and in the media there would still be "other reasons to point to."
I’m sure boosters and recruits moms loved him - imagine how much worse he would have been if he were ugly??
This is acknowledging that the hypothetical owner hired the black coach in the first place.
He supposedly hated the recruiting aspect of college football. Obviously, as a head coach that can't work along with being successful in college. The Cardinals took a massive step forward this year, so his third year will be really telling as I thought he did a good job this year. He has the pieces to have a pretty good team next year and if it doesn't happen then the Cardinals probably move on.
They swept the awful NFC East plus a gimme with the Jets. Nice win over Buffalo. I’ll be curious what they do next year because Kyler Murray definitely improved and fleecing Bill O’Brien in a trade for Hopkins certainly helped but I’m not quite a Kingsbury believer yet and still wonder why anyone thought enough of his time at Tech to give him an NFL job.
HC/OC/QB coach for a top 5 scoring offense with Patrick Mahomes. Plus, everyone wanted to get their "Sean McVay"
He went 24-26 his first 4 years there with Davis Webb, Baker Mayfield, and Patrick Mahomes on the roster, and somehow he’s an NFL HC.
Scored a lot of points, though, which is what NFL teams are after.
I guess but he was also unemployed at the time - would think he would jump at even an OC gig at that point, why HC where in his only previous opportunity he wasn’t good? He feasted on crappy non-conference schedules, I think they beat 3 ranked teams in 6 seasons.
He wasn't unemployed, he was USC's OC.
You are correct, he was the OC at USC for about 20 days before he resigned.
He deserves another year. In 2018, the Cards were dead last in scoring offense at 14.1 ppg. Kingsbury took over, drafted Murray, and in 2019, they ranked 16th at 22.6 ppg. This year, they moved up to 13th at 25.6 ppg. Their defense even improved dramatically from 2019 to 2020.
He also recruited those players so needs credit for that when all three were never highly regarded QB's coming out of HS.
His time as RB coach in Minnesota overlapped with Paton so there is a connection.
If he gets passed over again, I wonder if he regrets not taking the CU job last year.
www.cbssports.com
Watson trying.
Was going to mention Detroit as an option, but looks like Dan Campbell is getting that job.
