With the hiring of Kliff Kingsbury, the Cardinals have addressed their biggest priority of the offseason—bringing aboard a bright, young offensive mind to accelerate the development of Josh Rosen. However, that hire immediately created a new top priority—hiring a veteran defensive coordinator to pair with their relatively inexperienced and defensively challenged new head coach.
GM Steve Keim says the team is looking for two things out of its next DC: head-coaching experience and expertise in the 3-4 defense that the Cardinals ran for years before the failed Steve Wilks/Al Holcomb experiment.