The Arizona Cardinals hired Kliff Kingsbury to be their next head coach. While I admirer the timeliness of the hire I do not like the hire itself. Everything about it screams Steve Wilks all over again.
When Wilks was fired everyone in the media said the next head coach needs to have head coaching experience. Not only did they not do that, they went out and found a guy with less experience than Wilks. Kingsbury was a head coach in college but has zero experience in the NFL. He didn't even have a winning record while at Texas A&M. He went 35-40 with a 1-2 record in bowls games in his 6 years as a head coach.
The Cardinals wanted an offensive minded head coach and figured he can hire a veteran defective coordinator. Why couldn't they just hire a veteran defective coordinator as their next head coach?
The hire if Wilks last season should show the front office the risk you take in hiring a head coach with no experience. The lack of a good leader can damage the whole team.
The Cardinals should have hired someone with experience last season and they should have again this season. Even if it was a defensive guy. The Cardinals, before last season have had consistently good defenses so let an defensive coordinator with head coaching experience run the team. Then you can bring in Kingsbury to just worry about offense and you can groom him to be the next head coach.
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