The Arizona Cardinals had a rather disappointing season this time around. Despite having adequate arsenal, they just weren’t able to deliver when it really mattered.
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Out of their 17 games, the Cardinals managed to win only 13 and although injuries played a massive role in halting the team’s progress, they just never got going even when the stars were ready and fit.
As one can expect, after such a disastrous season, the sword had to fall on someone and that’s exactly what has happened. After a 4-year stint, the Cardinals decided to end their association with head coach Cliff Kingsbury.
A lot of eyebrows were raised when Kliff was first added as a coach by the Cardinals. Moreover, he wasn’t able to take his team to the playoffs in his first couple of seasons. However, in 2021, the Cardinals made their way into the playoffs but lost against the Rams in the opening round.
Still, Cardinals showed a lot of faith in Kliff and gave him a massive 6-year extension in March 2022, up to 2027. However, due a disastrous run this time around, the Cardinals have decided to look for other options.
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Kliff Kingsbury once used fake accounts to spy on his players
Kliff’s hiring might have been a result of the Sean McVay effect. Sean, who has been extremely successful as a coach at such a young age, probably inspired the Cardinals to show faith in Kingsbury. Known for his innovative ways to keep an eye on his players, giving a long run to Kliff did look like a risk which ended up being a bad investment for the Arizona-based franchise.
Talking about innovative ways to keep an eye on his players, when Kliff was Texas Tech’s head coach, he used to spy on his players though fake accounts with cute girls. Yes, we aren’t making this up. Kliff himself had once revealed using this trick as per azcentral.com,
“We have fake accounts with cute girls that they add right now so we can see what’s going on, who’s tweeting what. Those are heavily monitored, for sure,” Kliff had told the HawkCast.
However, he had also told A.J Hawke that with social media, being a footballer in this day and age isn’t easy. “If you or I played a bad game in college, they may put a little article in the newspaper or you hear about it from a local radio,” Kingsbury claimed, “but these poor kids, if they play a poor game, they get attacked on their social media.”
While talking about how effective the fake account method was, “Friend requests from cute girls are an automatic follow,” Kliff had stated. Back to 2023, he is not a head coach anymore. Will some other franchise try to rope him in?
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