02-05-2023, 12:38 PM
(02-05-2023, 12:13 PM)Nately120 Wrote: That's the same thing people said about the Bengals.
Maybe Lou could go the ZT route on that franchise. Like the Bengals hiring a QB coach to be their HC, Lou is seen as a "desperation hire" who is going to a franchise the national media loves to crap on, he's starting with a QB who is clearly not "the guy" but that team is primed to get a top 5 or better pick in 2024. He can go there, give the culture an enema, get a high draft pick his first and maybe second year through the natural tanking of having a ho-hum and injured QB, and then rebuild with a top tier QB and new culture like we did.
We've moved on from pain in the ass players, and we've gone from worst to damn near first and all the while we pointed out that media was wrong in saying it couldn't be done. Alas, here we are doing the same thing by saying the Cardinals are a cesspool of a franchise that can never be fixed.
If Lou goes there and they give him time to rebuild that place and move on from the prior regime's losing culture, losing players, and rebuild things like we did...well, why not? I get that we want Lou to stay here, but there is no need to let that turn us into the same dumbasses who swore up and down that the Bengals were hopeless.
People indeed said that about the Bengals, but the Bengals were in a far different position than the Cardinals when Zac showed up.
The good players on the team that were making serious money could be released without a lot of cap damage if a coach wanted to purge the roster.
The quarterback wasn't making a lot of money (for an entrenched starter), and could very easily be deposed and sent packing, giving whatever new coach what most new coaches want: a new quarterback.
Arizona's situation with Kyler is basically the worst case scenario with modern qb contracts. He's not bad enough to dump outright, but he's not a guy that you want to hitch your fate to, either. Unfortunately, that's already been done for whatever coach decides to take the job, and there's nothing he can do about it.
A shitty team with a blank slate roster, tons of cap, veterans getting bank just begging to get released, and decent draft position is more attractive than a shitty team already paying sizable, guaranteed money to a questionable qb all day long.
The moral of the story is that if you're going to give a huge guaranteed deal to a quarterback, you'd better be damn sure he's the guy.
