All throughout the Ken Whisenhunt era, there were always 3 positions that the Arizona Cardinals could never seem to address: quarterback, offensive tackle and defensive end/outside linebacker. When Bruce Arians came on board, two of those things were fixed rather quickly with the trade for Carson Palmer and the signing of tackle Jared Veldheer.
But the one thing this team was still missing was a dominant outside linebacker for their 3-4 scheme that could take advantage of all the attention Darnell Dockett and Calais Campbell took on. That remained the case until prior to the 2016 season when general manager Steve Keim made the move to trade for linebacker Chandler Jones for a second round pick.