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Klowned by Keim
1. Bruce Arians (41-30-1) - I'm still baffled by the number of posters here who were done with Bruce Arians after he went 8-8 in a season where Blane Gabbert and Drew Stanton combined for nine starts and 32 year Aridian Peterson was the leading rusher.
2. Ken Whisenhunt (45-51) - Haters gonna hate because Whis was on the sideline for the Super Bowl, but my lasting memory of the Great Engineer will be the stillborn 2011 season where we started 1-6 and finished 8-8.
3. Kliff Kingsbury (28-31-1) - The Arizona Cardinals were never better than the eight weeks that started the 2021 season. Don't at me.
4. Vince Tobin (28-43) - Marc Trestman was Tobin's OC from '98 until he got fired in '00. Those offenses finished 15th, 30th, and 29ths. Good lord. He went on to be the head coach of the Bears and build a fruitful relationship with Jay Cutler.
5. Joe Bugel (20-44) - Joe Bugel was Norv Turner before it was cool. His staff included legendary Eagles DC Jim Johnson. His '93 team finished in the top 10 scoring offense and defense. They went 7-9 and finished fourth in the division. Pure Cardinals.
6. Gene Stallings (12-15 in AZ) - Bro was unfairly fired! Cards schedules before State Farm Stadium were bananas. Arizona started the 1989 season with three road games (going 2-1).
7. Buddy Ryan (12-20) - I didn't really start following the Cards until '98. People get real mad talking about Buddy Ryan, but Garrison Hearst gained over 1000 yards at a 3.8 YPC clip in '95. That sounds like fun football.
8. Jonathan Gannon (4-13) - The Week 3 win over Dallas will never stop being funny. Not enough people ask how Jonathan Gannon only got one more win than Steve Wilks even though he got an extra chance.
9. Dave McGinnis (17-40) - My guy went 1-8 in relief of Joe Bugel and somehow kept the job. Just unfathomable. If kids today cared about history they'd ask how this happened.
10. Dennis Green (16-32) - Did Dennis Green kill the retread head coach forever? Maybe? Green lead a culture shift from well-meaning incompetence to fatalistic indifference. That 2004 draft was sick tho.
11. Steve Wilks (3-13) - This story lives rent-free in my head and I'll never stop thinking about it. You don't build foundations with bricks; you can't, because the ground underneath is inherently unstable.
12. Hank Kuhlman (0-5) - Kuhlman's unimpeachable record includes a 37-0 loss to the Denver Broncos in the last home game of the season. The Cardinals had 79 rushing yards in that game.
2. Ken Whisenhunt (45-51) - Haters gonna hate because Whis was on the sideline for the Super Bowl, but my lasting memory of the Great Engineer will be the stillborn 2011 season where we started 1-6 and finished 8-8.
3. Kliff Kingsbury (28-31-1) - The Arizona Cardinals were never better than the eight weeks that started the 2021 season. Don't at me.
4. Vince Tobin (28-43) - Marc Trestman was Tobin's OC from '98 until he got fired in '00. Those offenses finished 15th, 30th, and 29ths. Good lord. He went on to be the head coach of the Bears and build a fruitful relationship with Jay Cutler.
5. Joe Bugel (20-44) - Joe Bugel was Norv Turner before it was cool. His staff included legendary Eagles DC Jim Johnson. His '93 team finished in the top 10 scoring offense and defense. They went 7-9 and finished fourth in the division. Pure Cardinals.
6. Gene Stallings (12-15 in AZ) - Bro was unfairly fired! Cards schedules before State Farm Stadium were bananas. Arizona started the 1989 season with three road games (going 2-1).
7. Buddy Ryan (12-20) - I didn't really start following the Cards until '98. People get real mad talking about Buddy Ryan, but Garrison Hearst gained over 1000 yards at a 3.8 YPC clip in '95. That sounds like fun football.
8. Jonathan Gannon (4-13) - The Week 3 win over Dallas will never stop being funny. Not enough people ask how Jonathan Gannon only got one more win than Steve Wilks even though he got an extra chance.
9. Dave McGinnis (17-40) - My guy went 1-8 in relief of Joe Bugel and somehow kept the job. Just unfathomable. If kids today cared about history they'd ask how this happened.
10. Dennis Green (16-32) - Did Dennis Green kill the retread head coach forever? Maybe? Green lead a culture shift from well-meaning incompetence to fatalistic indifference. That 2004 draft was sick tho.
11. Steve Wilks (3-13) - This story lives rent-free in my head and I'll never stop thinking about it. You don't build foundations with bricks; you can't, because the ground underneath is inherently unstable.
12. Hank Kuhlman (0-5) - Kuhlman's unimpeachable record includes a 37-0 loss to the Denver Broncos in the last home game of the season. The Cardinals had 79 rushing yards in that game.
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