The Cardinals Fire Mike McCoy
The Cardinals up to this point pretty much looked like the worst team in the league. Steve Wilks looks in over his head. Sam Bradford was terrible. Josh Rosen looks terrible. David Johnson isn’t doing anything. The defense is falling off and is old. Larry Fitz continues his toil. Patrick Peterson wants out. But maybe things will start looking up now! Mike McCoy got fired!
It wasn’t hard to watch the Cardinals offense and see how bad the play calling was. This was not a system that was going to succeed. David Johnson is better than being shoved up the gut every first down. Mike McCoy got fired halfway through the season last year and somehow, that resume was solid enough to pick up another job in Phoenix, aka the monument to man’s arrogance.
That Thursday night game was a war crime. It was 28-3 at the beginning of the 2nd quarter. The game was a total embarrassment on every level for the Cards and it was finally bad enough to get something changed. Byron Leftwich (yeah, really) is the new OC. He can’t be much worse than McCoy. At the very least I predict he’ll be more aggressive, new OCs usually are.
I actually feel kind of bad for Sam Bradford. He may be the biggest victim of McCoy. The Cards picked him up to be the stopgap but when things got bad he was taken out to find a spark. Now the Cardinals can’t just put him back out there after officially starting Rosen for the future, and the Cards made Bradford inactive to save money on his bonuses. Even with as much money as Bradford has swindled this past decade, that’s a crappy way for things to go.
Of course, also poor Larry, but that doesn’t even need to be mentioned anymore.
EDIT:Fixed whatever went wrong with the text in the final panel
…I thought it was State Farm Stadium now? Or does the venue still have the University of Phoenix name on the exterior somewhere?
Also, what’s that jumble of letters on the right side of the last panel? I’m guessing ARI is for Arizona, but what’s the WA stand for?
Again also, this might be the first Steve Keim sighting in this comic in 5 years, but maybe you could have put the Bidwills in instead, knock another owner off the list(Come to think of it… how many non-Packers owners have not appeared on this comic yet, again?).
If you wanted to set McCoy on fire, wouldn’t it be more logical to keep him IN the stadium? That team looks like a real dumpster fire from top to bottom. The Keim problems, Wilks seems lost, the “Where in the world is David Johnson?” syndrome they’ve created (maybe he’s still hanging out in our favorite TDP bar). Peterson wants out….If Fitz retires before the season is done or something, does that make the Cards the next Browns?
YES. YES IT DOES. We need a new Browns.
Not sure where to give you tips on possible comics, Dave. But you might wanna check out what is going on withBroncos QB Chas Kelly. I think he may have been arrested for trying to crash Von Miller’s Halloween party. (Initial reports coming out now)
His cowboy themed party that TMZ reported was “cocaine themed”? I find it hard to believe it being cocaine themed, considering it’s not the 1980s and none of the players work on Wall Street.
Isn’t this Chad Kelly’s second arrest?
Chad got kicked out of the party for getting into a fight, then broke into some guys house and fleeing once the cops came. He just got shitcanned this morning for that. Also, the reason the cocaine rumors started was that Emmanuel Sanders and Brandon Marshall came dressed as Tyrone Biggums and Bobby Brown (it was a Halloween party), and TMZ made up bullshit and a bunch of old white Colorado Springs conservatives got their panties in a twist over it.
I seriously don’t understand why if you’re an OC you don’t just steal everything that Andy Reid and Sean McVay are doing on the field.
Kudos on the HOT TAKES tag.
UoP Stadium? Did you make this when the hire was announced?
Honestly I just forgot they changed it.
Not even Google reminded me when I searched for pictures of UoP stadium
idk Dave when i looked it up google had Satefarm Stadium show up like 5 times
Maybe that’s why the Cards suck so bad. They didn’t know about the name change or something and are still living off of past successes…..the few they have had.
Should they be living off from what they had when they were in Chicago?
guess you could say he didnt do a good job of getting his team FIRED up! Ill be here all day boys
I heard he’s going to cosplay as the Human Torch, get it?
Hot take: will Patrick Peterson be the new Larry Fitzgerald. The superstar player that never has anyone around him helping him? I know he doesn’t always play at an elite level, but you can easily blame that on scheme / talent around him?
Indeed.
It’s honestly kind of incredible how Fitz hasn’t found some way to get out of that team. There’s no way he’s there because he loves the city, right? It’s PHOENIX.
Mike McCoy, another coach that wasted years of greatness from Philip Rivers. He was a terrible coach. A coward. Would always go for a field goal attempt or punt when facing 4th and 1 or shorter, only going for it when the game was on the line. Bad clock management too. And terrible game prep too.