The Cardinals hired a fired Big 12 coach and drafted a 5' 10" quarterback.
Those were the headlines in early 2019, and only sharpening the swords was the fact that all this happened just a year after Arizona went in on a longtime NFL assistant, in Steve Wilks, who’d paid his dues and earned the right to replace Bruce Arians, and drafted a well-pedigreed quarterback, in Josh Rosen, whom they’d traded up to get in the first round. This, too, was after a year in which Arizona’s talent level in certain spots looked XFL-worthy, and the team crumbled, falling all the way to the very bottom of the league at 3–13.