Arizona Cardinals staff again short on total coaches and experience

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That is a silly article. This is their comparison.

Those Rams coaches with 10-plus seasons totaled 185 years, the 49ers 191 and the Seahawks 163. Meanwhile, the combined Arizona staff of 17 coaches had only 91 years of NFL experience and had three coaches in their first season: offensive line coach Justin Frye, defensive line coach Winston DeLattiboudere and defensive quality control coach Alec Osborne.

This is the 9th season for Sean McVey and Kyle Shanahan, so of course most of their coaches will have more experience. The Seahawks have 7 coaches with 3 or less years of experience. Funny how that works for a new coach building his own staff. 83 of the 163 years for the Seahawks come from three coaches too. That means they have 80 years combined from the rest of the staff of about 18.
 

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That is a silly article. This is their comparison.



This is the 9th season for Sean McVey and Kyle Shanahan, so of course most of their coaches will have more experience. The Seahawks have 7 coaches with 3 or less years of experience. Funny how that works for a new coach building his own staff. 83 of the 163 years for the Seahawks come from three coaches too. That means they have 80 years combined from the rest of the staff of about 18.
While that may be silly, what is not at all silly is that the Cards now have an insanely inexperienced staff, on the cheap, with less coaches than others in the league. Or you could call this situation itself silly, but words like pathetic, unacceptable, and others fit the bill more. the dollar bill.
 

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Don't the Cards have like 22 coaches listed on staff? That's league average, not short. In fact, there are probably teams with a few less. If someone wants to crap on lack of NFL experience, that's fine, but the numbers say they are not short on staff.


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Yeah and I write these words again: whom do you suppose our new coach will be for the 2029 season?
The Cards can’t afford to be losers next season.
There is not enough goodwill left for that to happen in 2026.
 

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I think it’s fine to have multiple relatively inexperienced pro coaches. I don’t like the idea of that description fitting most of them. I’m also concerned with adding them to the retained coaches who struggled last season. So much for mentoring. It’s especially tricky when they’re working under a rookie coach. Its not a disaster, but it’s an unnecessary risk. It also makes you question if AZ invested the money needed to get the best available guys.
 

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I think it’s fine to have multiple relatively inexperienced pro coaches. I don’t like the idea of that description fitting most of them. I’m also concerned with adding them to the retained coaches who struggled last season. So much for mentoring. It’s especially tricky when they’re working under a rookie coach. Its not a disaster, but it’s an unnecessary risk. It also makes you question if AZ invested the money needed to get the best available guys.
I looked up Pete Kwiatkowski...and he was earning just under $2 million/year ($1.9 his last season) as DC of Texas. Would he come to NFL as a position coach to earn significantly less?

Edit to add: According to Front Office Sports, NFL DL coaches earn less than $500k/year on average.
 

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Don't the Cards have like 22 coaches listed on staff? That's league average, not short. In fact, there are probably teams with a few less. If someone wants to crap on lack of NFL experience, that's fine, but the numbers say they are not short on staff.


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My guy you’re citing other message boards do some research
 

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The Cards can’t afford to be losers next season.
There is not enough goodwill left for that to happen in 2026.
Or what? There not moving, and Michael isn’t going to lose the team.

Yeah, there is and all of our asses will still be around here talking about it in 2027 lol

We aren’t really the Cards’ target market tho. The Cards (probably) want a robust base of season ticket holders and a locked-in base of suite/casa rojo/club seat owners.

They’ve effectively poisoned the well water on the former; the latter is more about secular economics than the quality of the team, I think.
 

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Or what? There not moving, and Michael isn’t going to lose the team.



We aren’t really the Cards’ target market tho. The Cards (probably) want a robust base of season ticket holders and a locked-in base of suite/casa rojo/club seat owners.

They’ve effectively poisoned the well water on the former; the latter is more about secular economics than the quality of the team, I think.
I’d say that’s every team in The NFL in that regard.
 

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I looked up Pete Kwiatkowski...and he was earning just under $2 million/year ($1.9 his last season) as DC of Texas. Would he come to NFL as a position coach to earn significantly less?

Edit to add: According to Front Office Sports, NFL DL coaches earn less than $500k/year on average.

He actually got fired. I thought his defense played well at the beginning of the season, but it struggled later, and definitely had the players to be a dominate defense.
 

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He actually got fired. I thought his defense played well at the beginning of the season, but it struggled later, and definitely had the players to be a dominate defense.
I still doubt he jumps on a $500k, or less NFL gig right away, when he could just wait for another college job that pays way more to open up...Unless he's being paid significantly higher than NFL average for a DL coach.
 

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This is the 9th season for Sean McVey and Kyle Shanahan, so of course most of their coaches will have more experience.
This is a good point... But the article also compared the Cards' new staff with those of the Ravens, Bills, and Dolphins, and the Cardinals came up way short.
 
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This is a good point... But the article also compared the Cards' new staff with those of the Ravens, Bills, and Dolphins, and the Cardinals, and the Cards came up way short.
Bills kept most of thier existing staff with the promotion of Brady. The Ravens replaced their QB Coach with our previous QB Coach, who's experience was all with Cardinals in Israel Woolfork. Not a gleaming review. Jesse MInter also hired his 70 year old father who comes with more experience than half the staff combined.

Miami is Miami.
 

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I think it’s fine to have multiple relatively inexperienced pro coaches. I don’t like the idea of that description fitting most of them. I’m also concerned with adding them to the retained coaches who struggled last season. So much for mentoring. It’s especially tricky when they’re working under a rookie coach. Its not a disaster, but it’s an unnecessary risk. It also makes you question if AZ invested the money needed to get the best available guys.
I don't think that's ever been questioned on here
 

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Did we even kick the tires on Jeff Stoutland? Instant credibility with a hire like that.
 
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