Just eight days ago, Cardinals team president Michael Bidwill promised to keep his coaching search close to the vest and follow the same thorough process that brought the Arizona franchise its two most successful coaches in Ken Whisenhunt and Bruce Arians.
On Tuesday afternoon, hours after interviewing him for the first time, the Cardinals hired Kliff Kingsbury as their new head coach.
To be clear, this is far from a commentary or projection on how Kingsbury will do as an NFL head coach. He literally has no NFL coaching experience to extrapolate from. He went 35-40 at Texas Tech while overseeing Baker Mayfield, Patrick Mahomes and Davis Webb, getting fired after he missed securing a bowl appearance for the third time in six years.