Back on January 31, 2017, Jess Root of Cards Wire wrote an article titled “Did the Cardinals Want Terry McDonough To Leave?” At the time, Terry McDonough, the Cardinals VP of Player Personnel and right hand man to GM Steve Keim, had interviewed for the 49ers’ GM position and Jennifer Lee Chan, a writer for SB Nations Niners Nation, had theorized the following:
“I am hearing from multiple sources is that McDonough is not well liked in Arizona. In fact, there were no positive reports about McDonough at all.”
“McDonough has been called “hard to deal with” and ‘not a good guy.