The Steve Keim Report Card - You be the Judge

[Chopper0080]

I am going to put put some info out there and am curious to see how the board views it.

2013 - Keim is hired as GM

Signed Rashad Johnson to a 3 year contract
Signed Jerraud Powers to a 3 year contract
Signed Drew Stanton to a 3 year contract
Signed Frostee Rucker to a 1 year contract
Signed Karlos Dansby to a 1 year contract
Signed John Abraham to a 2 year contract
Signed Eric Winston to a 1 year contract

Traded for Carson Palmer - gave up a 6th rnd pick and 7th rnd pick in 2014

Drafted
Jonathan Cooper
Kevin Minter
Tyrann Mathieu
Alex Okafor
Earl Watford
Stepfan Taylor
Ryan Swope
Andre Ellington
DC Jefferson

Signed Tony Jefferson as an UDFA
Signed Jaron Brown as an UDFA

2014
Signed Frostee Rucker to a 2 year contract
Signed Jerrad Veldheer to a 5 year contract
Signed Ted Ginn to a 3 year contract
Signed Antonio Cromartie to a 1 year contract
Signed Patrick Peterson to a 5 year contract
Signed Carson Palmer to a 3 year contract

Drafted
Deone Bucannon
Troy Niklas
Kareem Martin
John Brown
Logan Thomas
Ed Stinson
Walt Powell

2015
Signed Larry Fitzgerald to a 2 year contract
Released Ted Ginn Jr.
Signed Mike Iupati to a 5 year contract
Signed Corey Peters to a 3 year contract
Signed Jermaine Gresham to a 1 year contract
Signed Justin Bethel to a 3 year contract

Drafted
DJ Humphries
Markus Golden
David Johnson
Rodney Gunter
Shaquille Riddick
JJ Nelson
Gerald Christian

2016
Signed Drew Stanton to a 2 year contract
Signed Tyvone Branch to a 2 year contract
Signed Jermaine Gresham to a 1 year contract
Signed Evan Mathis to a 1 year contract
Signed Tyrann Mathieu to a 5 year contract
Signed Larry Fitzgerald to a 1 year contract through 2017
Signed Carson Palmer to a 1 year contract through 2018

Traded for Chandler Jones - 2nd round pick and Jonathan Cooper
Traded for Marcus Cooper - 7th round pick

Drafted
Robert Nkemdiche
Brandon Williams
Evan Boehm
Marqui Christian
Cole Toner
Harlan Miller

2017
Signed Josh Mauro to a 2 year contract
Signed Jermaine Gresham to a 4 year contract
Signed Antoine Bethea to a 3 year contract
Signed Chandler Jones to a 5 year contract

Drafted
Haason Reddick
Budda Baker
Chad Williams
Dorian Johnson
Will Holden
TJ Logan
Rudy Ford

Big Contracts
3 yrs, 50 mil to Carson Palmer 2013
1 yr, 24.35 mil ext to Carson Palmer 2016
2 yrs, 22 mil to Larry Fitzgerald 2015
1 yr, 11 mil ext to Larry Fitzgerald 2016
5 yrs, 35 mil to Jared Veldheer 2014
5 yrs, 40 mil to Mike Iupati 2015
4 yrs, 28 mil to Jermaine Gresham 2017
5 yrs, 82.5 mil to Chandler Jones 2017
5 yrs, 62.5 mil to Tyrann Mathieu 2016
5 yrs, 70.05 mil to Patrick Peterson 2014

High Draft Picks (Rnds 1 & 2)
Johnathan Cooper - OG
Kevin Minter - ILB
Deone Bucannon - S/ILB
Troy Niklas - TE
DJ Humphries - OT
Markus Golden - OLB
Robert Nkemdiche - DL
Haason Reddick - ILB
Budda Baker - S

 

[Garthshort]

A-

 

[iLLmatiC]

A-

That's being generous

 

[NMCard]

I like him better than the snail.

 

[AZCrazy]

Depends on if you blame him for injuries to players. Good picks turn into busts if the players are always broken up.

 

[TJ]

B


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[Chopper0080]

What Keim has done well...

Keim has made pretty good trades, including acquiring Palmer, Chandler Jones, and Marcus Cooper.

Keim has done well in the middle rounds drafting Tyrann Mathieu, Alex Okafor, David Johnson, Kareem Martin, John Brown, David Johnson, and Evan Boehm.

Keim has not given any huge contracts to complete duds...the Gresham contract may be the first

What Keim has not done well...

Keim has been terrible in the first two rounds...Markus Golden has been the only real plus contributor to date.

Keim has prioritized some low cost positions with high value assets. Gave bog money to OGs Mathis and Iupati, spent a 1st rounder on OG Jonathan Cooper, a 2nd round pick on TE Troy Niklas and S Budda Baker, and 3 top 60 picks on ILBs.

Keim has not hit on any of the assets spent on OL with possibly the exception of Boehm and Veldheer. Iupati, Cooper, Mathis, Toner, Humphries and Watford have all been disappointments.

 

[Cheesebeef]

B-

 

[iLLmatiC]

B-

This is what I was thinking. Depending how we do the rest of the way this season, it could drop to a C+

 

[Jetstream Green]

Never saw a one game report card for a tenure, these posts now should get really entertaining now

 

[Cardsfanboi]

Had a good run but bad draft picks and too much KFC is becoming the end of him now

 

[cardpa]

What Keim has done well...

Keim has made pretty good trades, including acquiring Palmer, Chandler Jones, and Marcus Cooper.

Keim has done well in the middle rounds drafting Tyrann Mathieu, Alex Okafor, David Johnson, Kareem Martin, John Brown, David Johnson, and Evan Boehm.

Keim has not given any huge contracts to complete duds...the Gresham contract may be the first

What Keim has not done well...

Keim has been terrible in the first two rounds...Markus Golden has been the only real plus contributor to date.

Keim has prioritized some low cost positions with high value assets. Gave bog money to OGs Mathis and Iupati, spent a 1st rounder on OG Jonathan Cooper, a 2nd round pick on TE Troy Niklas and S Budda Baker, and 3 top 60 picks on ILBs.

Keim has not hit on any of the assets spent on OL with possibly the exception of Boehm and Veldheer. Iupati, Cooper, Mathis, Toner, Humphries and Watford have all been disappointments.

This sounds pretty spot on. The most important and impactful draft picks in the first two rounds where you expect to get players that will turn out to be strong contributors and players who would be potential pro bowlers or at least garner attention to that level have been meh at best. This is the gaping hole in this team. It's good to build through the draft but when you keep striking out in the first two rounds, you find yourself behind the eight ball before too long.

 

[Chopper0080]

The 2018 issue...

Carson Palmer will be overpaid @ 20.625 mil.
Jared Veldheer will be overpaid @ 10.25 mil.
Mike Iupati will be overpaid @ 9.7 mil.
Deone Bucannon will be overpaid @ 8.71 mil.
Jermaine Gresham will be overpaid @ 7.25 mil.

With Tramon Williams and Justin Bethel as FA, we will only have 2 CBs of the 4 on the 53 man roster under contract.

John Brown, Jaron Brown, and Brittain Golden will all be FAs, and Fitz has a voidable contract. Only Chad Williams and JJ Nelson under contract.

With both Kerwynn Williams and Andre Ellington as FAs, only David Johnson and Penny under contract at RB.

Both backup QBs Stanton and Gabbert will be FAs. With Palmer being overpaid and a potential retirement candidate, we could be looking at an entirely new QB depth chart.

6 (Rucker, Peters, Martin, Dansby, Bynes, and Wright) of our currently rostered 15 front seven defensive players will be FAs.

 

[Cheesebeef]

The 2018 issue...

Carson Palmer will be overpaid @ 20.625 mil.
Jared Veldheer will be overpaid @ 10.25 mil.
Mike Iupati will be overpaid @ 9.7 mil.
Deone Bucannon will be overpaid @ 8.71 mil.
Jermaine Gresham will be overpaid @ 7.25 mil.

With Tramon Williams and Justin Bethel as FA, we will only have 2 CBs of the 4 on the 53 man roster under contract.

John Brown, Jaron Brown, and Brittain Golden will all be FAs, and Fitz has a voidable contract. Only Chad Williams and JJ Nelson under contract.

With both Kerwynn Williams and Andre Ellington as FAs, only David Johnson and Penny under contract at RB.

Both backup QBs Stanton and Gabbert will be FAs. With Palmer being overpaid and a potential retirement candidate, we could be looking at an entirely new QB depth chart.

6 (Rucker, Peters, Martin, Dansby, Bynes, and Wright) of our currently rostered 15 front seven defensive players will be FAs.

If this season goes down the tubes, it wouldn't surprise me if Arians, Fitz and Palmer all ride off into the sunset and we have to do a team tear down and rebuild almost from scratch... with four great/really good players (DJ, Peterson, golden and #55) and prob bringing in a new coach/draft a QB in round 1.

We're old, not very dynamic and old.

 

[BigRedRage]

With all of it written down, I like it more than I thought I would.

Jones we will see, especially if it means we lose golden

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[iLLmatiC]

The 2018 issue...

Carson Palmer will be overpaid @ 20.625 mil.
Jared Veldheer will be overpaid @ 10.25 mil.
Mike Iupati will be overpaid @ 9.7 mil.
Deone Bucannon will be overpaid @ 8.71 mil.
Jermaine Gresham will be overpaid @ 7.25 mil.

With Tramon Williams and Justin Bethel as FA, we will only have 2 CBs of the 4 on the 53 man roster under contract.

John Brown, Jaron Brown, and Brittain Golden will all be FAs, and Fitz has a voidable contract. Only Chad Williams and JJ Nelson under contract.

With both Kerwynn Williams and Andre Ellington as FAs, only David Johnson and Penny under contract at RB.

Both backup QBs Stanton and Gabbert will be FAs. With Palmer being overpaid and a potential retirement candidate, we could be looking at an entirely new QB depth chart.

6 (Rucker, Peters, Martin, Dansby, Bynes, and Wright) of our currently rostered 15 front seven defensive players will be FAs.

Yeah that Gresham contract is looking very meh.

 

[iLLmatiC]

This almost feels like the tail end of the Nash years when the Suns held onto him a couple years too long. I hope Carson proves me wrong next week but he looked old and washed up today.

 

[Chopper0080]

I think I give it a C+. The extreme negatives just seem to balance out the positives too much. I also worry about what we are giving a potentially new QB. Not much outside of David Johnson and Evan Boehm at this point.

I agree with iLL in that this team seems like a roster that should have been blown up a year ago, but instead committed to two more years of meh.

 

[NJCardFan]

Solid B.


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[Chopper0080]

Never saw a one game report card for a tenure, these posts now should get really entertaining now

Do you feel this an overly negative post or are you commenting on only the timing of it?

 

[Jetstream Green]

Do you feel this an overly negative post or are you commenting on only the timing of it?

The timing after the Detroit game... five or six games into the season and it would probably not bother me at all

 

[Buckybird]

The 2018 issue...

Carson Palmer will be overpaid @ 20.625 mil.
Jared Veldheer will be overpaid @ 10.25 mil.
Mike Iupati will be overpaid @ 9.7 mil.
Deone Bucannon will be overpaid @ 8.71 mil.
Jermaine Gresham will be overpaid @ 7.25 mil.

With Tramon Williams and Justin Bethel as FA, we will only have 2 CBs of the 4 on the 53 man roster under contract.

John Brown, Jaron Brown, and Brittain Golden will all be FAs, and Fitz has a voidable contract. Only Chad Williams and JJ Nelson under contract.

With both Kerwynn Williams and Andre Ellington as FAs, only David Johnson and Penny under contract at RB.

Both backup QBs Stanton and Gabbert will be FAs. With Palmer being overpaid and a potential retirement candidate, we could be looking at an entirely new QB depth chart.

6 (Rucker, Peters, Martin, Dansby, Bynes, and Wright) of our currently rostered 15 front seven defensive players will be FAs.

Very scary looking to me when you put it that way & along with the slim pickings of our 1st & 2nd rounders!

Thanks for bringing me more down after today's ineptitude Chopper lol

 

[82CardsGrad]

The 2018 issue...

Carson Palmer will be overpaid @ 20.625 mil.
Jared Veldheer will be overpaid @ 10.25 mil.
Mike Iupati will be overpaid @ 9.7 mil.
Deone Bucannon will be overpaid @ 8.71 mil.
Jermaine Gresham will be overpaid @ 7.25 mil.

With Tramon Williams and Justin Bethel as FA, we will only have 2 CBs of the 4 on the 53 man roster under contract.

John Brown, Jaron Brown, and Brittain Golden will all be FAs, and Fitz has a voidable contract. Only Chad Williams and JJ Nelson under contract.

With both Kerwynn Williams and Andre Ellington as FAs, only David Johnson and Penny under contract at RB.

Both backup QBs Stanton and Gabbert will be FAs. With Palmer being overpaid and a potential retirement candidate, we could be looking at an entirely new QB depth chart.

6 (Rucker, Peters, Martin, Dansby, Bynes, and Wright) of our currently rostered 15 front seven defensive players will be FAs.

TJ Logan is under contract... :championship:

 

[DVontel]

I just wish he would stop with the small school prospects in the 3rd round.

 

[Buckybird]

I just wish he would stop with the small school prospects in the 3rd round.

We've been more successful in those 3-5 rounds than 1-2 that's for sure.