Josh Rosen Gets The Bad News
The Cardinals offseason has been such an unprecedented clusterfuck. Even up to the moment they did it, I still wasn’t sure they’d actually draft Kyler. Josh Rosen was shipped to Miami a day later, and the new era officially begins.
Seriously has anything like this ever happened? I only remember one other time a team managed to fire a coach after one year, with the Browns firing Chud after a bad season. Normally I’m all for giving coaches multiple seasons because you can’t find a winning formula or form a culture if you are constantly vacating the offices. It certainly didn’t help the Browns. But getting saddled to a bad coach or bad QB can ruin a franchise for half a decade and just make you wish the team pulled the trigger much sooner (like the Jags with Bort and Gus Bradley).
I did not have any particular issues with the Cardinals firing Steve Wilks. He looked so incredibly lost, and in some ways maybe Steve Keim and the Cardinals should be commended for recognizing their mistake so soon and moving on. Of course, they also made that mistake to begin with. For better or worse, Keim has now fully committed to the Kliff Kingsbury vision, and I imagine he’s going to live or die on this hill. If this hill doesn’t work out, he’s going to go down as a huge idiot, especially if Rosen turns into a stud. But if Kyler does work out and this team finds an identity and moves forward…then the gamble paid off. This is a huge risk and I’m genuinely interested to see what happens. We’ve got the future right here and it’s either a trainwreck or a success.
I feel the most for poor Josh, even though he’s smart enough to recognize that in the grand scheme of things, he’s doing okay. Rare to see such a good perspective from a kid. But he’s been pretty fucked over. He fell in the draft (a bit), and the Cardinals traded up to grab him. He got stuck in one of the worst situations in football and performed about as well as you’d expect a rookie thrown into a volcano to perform. Then all of this complete nonsense happens and all of a sudden the team who believed in him is telling him he’s not worth the effort. Keim fucked up big time with Rosen, wasting a trade and a pick and essentially getting very little in return for him because they didn’t actually do much to move him before drafting Murray and tanking his stock. The Dolphins now get a top prospect who has a year of NFL experience under his belt for surprisingly cheap.
Firing Jim Mora after one season was one of the best decisions the Seahawks ever made.
Rosen won’t last in Miami. If you think so, you’re forgetting who is backup is: the human curse that is Ryan Fitzpatrick. He’ll start by week 8.
I’ll give it maybe 4 games. After all in Asian cultures, 4 is an omen due to how it sounded in Chinese.
Fitz will 14 Rosen.
Ryan Fitzpatrick is in Miami so Rosen is doomed.
Its a great trade by the dolphins. Its a shame he will be Ryan Fitzpatrick’s next victim.
We all know how the cycle will end!
I’d feel worse for the guy if his “right situation” comment wasn’t a direct response to being asked if he wanted to play for the Cleveland Browns. That made him look like an arrogant, entitled little fuckhole. The fact that he got booted in favor of Baker Mayfield’s backup makes it more amusing.
I mean it’s the Browns. Before this past season I don’t think anyone should blame a QB in the draft for not wanting to play with them.
Depends on the part of Florida you go too. Coastal areas can be super nice even when they are hot. Arizona just makes you melt. I have relatives in both places. Ones in Florida love it. Ones in Arizona, not so much.
I once had all my toiletries melt in my travel bag when I left it in my car on a business trip in Phoenix. My toothpaste was liquid.
It’s a good move by Miami. It feels like a gamble on a first round prospect where they only spent a second. With only a rookie season in the Arizona heat and turmoil we haven’t seen Rosen perform to his best yet.
Dave you missed a perfectly good opportunity to have Ryan Fitzpatrick stalking his next victim.
To be fair, Rosen hasn’t made it to the stadium yet, he just crossed the line. Fitz is lurking. He’s always lurking.
So WTF was up with Steve Smith’s rant about Rosen? It seemed to come out of nowhere, like unfollowing the cards is a really, really minor offense, I honestly don’t see what he was so up in arms about. “focus on football not twitter”, it’s not like unfollowing takes so much of his football time away.
Dave please explain to a i-Generation teen.
Steve Smith just trying to further his career. His rant’s been played virtually everywhere. Either that or an “old man yells at cloud” situation.
Reminds me of a certain former running back.
Beware the Gators Josh, Jorts are a crime against humanity
Josh Rosen still looks like an inbred Aaron Rodgers to me.
Really had to go with the ol “jewish propaganda nose”
I wouldn’t be surprised if in a year or two we’re feeling bad for Murray.
Well, there’s always baseball….if one wants to play for Billy Beane and Oakland.
Their shit doesn’t work in the playoffs.
I’m just to here to say that “Rosen Bag” is a nice touch.
What is going on with that font parade on the Welcome to Florida sign?
Seems like in this day and age QBs are expected to be an instant hit or bust. Makes me wonder what would happen if guys like Eli, Aikman, Bradshaw, Brees and Elway had their respective rookie years in today’s game. I mean there are idiots who seriously thinks Peyton’s rookie season was among the worse of all time.
Let’s all remember what happens to QBs who dare try to start games over Fitzmagic
“I only remember one other time a team managed to fire a coach after one year, with the Browns firing Chud after a bad season.”
Jim Tomsula! You made comics about him even. Like several.
Love how you made Kyler really short like Russell Wilson
Cam Cameron didn’t make it a week into 2008 with Miami after going 1-15.