It's hard to say if he ran his offense with Kyler because Kyler was playing preschool backyard football. At Texas tech with Mahomes and A&M with Manziel, his offense was putting up 40+ every week
Kind of answered it myself. Arizona scoring offense 10, 14, 16, 20. Not bad, but not terrific either.
If you remember kliff got a lot of nice receiving options for his offense: Hopkins, Kirk last year, ertz, ah green, got Rondale Moore in the draft. I wouldn’t be surprised if we take multiple receiving options or trade for some too
Seth: 1. I keep hearing this and I could not disagree more. “He’s an awesome OC.” I don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. I think he’s an awesome college OC. The Air Raid in college, hell yeah. … The best the Cardinals have finished when 11th in scoring offense. He’s been middling at best. … It’s not the talking point some think. 2. “Great developer of QBs” … I don’t understand where this comes from. Great developer of college QBs. He gets a lot out of Baker, Manziel, Keenum. … I don’t see anyone saying “Because of Kingsbury, Mahomes was already ready to go in the NFL.” It’s not what happened. The Air Raid is not this next level mental functioning they’re teaching. It’s like “Hey, throw to the open guy.” You look at the Cardinals offense, you could blame perhaps some on Kyler, who came in with his natural QB skills but has not progressed beyond that. Is that Kyler’s fault? Maybe but don’t say Kliff has developed NFL QBs when he hasn’t. Here’s Greg Cosell about where he saw Kyler after 3 full seasons. “3 years into his career, what the tape shows is there hasn’t been significant improvement. He’s essentially the same player as a rookie based on tape study.” I’m not buying that part of it. 3. It’s things like this from John McClain. “It would be great if DeMeco hired Kliff. Ryans needs one former head coach on his staff. Kingsbury would be terrific.” My mind is blown as to how he would be a terrific mentor for a young head coach. The last 7 seasons he’s been a HC, he’s had one winning season. In the 10 seasons as a HC, 3 winning seasons. Kliff has an ability to get players to respond to him, certainly in college he demonstrated that. Very prolific offenses in college. Maybe there’s untapped potential in the NFL but when it comes to being a HC, he’s certainly not the guy that needs to be mentoring DeMeco who strikes me as way more mature, polished and wise in terms of HC stuff at the NFL level. I don’t like any of those reasons for Kliff to be OC. I do like one specific reason to get him on staff. He’s no threat to be yanked away as HC. He’s a bonafide OC. You get him on staff, he already got his guaranteed salary, so give him a bump to be a consultant or pass game coordinator. Bring him in, see what he can bring to the table, and maybe he impresses you. Perhaps a guy like Slowik is OC and if he gets plucked away, then I have Kliff or whoever else we’ve cultivated to be OC. If Kliff likes it, I don’t think he’s going anywhere. He can be the offensive Dick LeBeau. That intrigues me, Kliff Kingsbury, Texans offensive consultant.
