Two Arizona Cardinals Coaches Offered Contracts Have Not Yet Re-signed

by Jess Root on Jan 12, 2012 9:00 AM MST in General Arizona Cardinals News

So far, the offseason has been fairly quiet for the Arizona Cardinals. Yes, Ray Horton interviewed for a head coaching position with the St. Louis Rams and Todd Haley might return, but the team is waiting. However, there are a pair of coaches that the Cardinals also want to retain for 2012 who have not yet signed the deals they were offered.

One of those names might surprise you.

The two coaches are assistant head coach (and offensive line coach/running game coordinator) Russ Grimm and TE coach Freddie Kitchen.

According to a Mike Jurecki tweet on Tuesday, both coaches were offered two-year contracts. At the time, I personally thought they had also signed.

It so turns out that they have not.

Kent Somers tweeted Wednesday afternoon that the situation with Grimm and Kitchens might be worth monitoring, as neither have signed contracts.

He did note that they have been on vacation (the coaching staff is off this week), but that there were no assurances they would be returning.

It would seem hard to believe that Grimm would go anywhere unless got a head coaching job. After all, it is rumored that the Cardinals front office is absolutely enamored with the Hall of Famer.

Likely, this is a case in which the contract offers came when they were out of town. We will probably hear that when they return next week that they are signed.

However, it might be something to keep an eye out for. We will see.

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Grimm

I don’t get Grimm. They must see something in him that we cannot see from watching his atrocious (year after year) o-line. As far as I’m concerned we could use some new blood there, coach and tackles.

Go Cards

"The true test of a person's intellligence is how much they agree with you."

by pthesz on Jan 12, 2012 9:47 AM MST reply actions 1 recs

+1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

by Birdman2 on Jan 12, 2012 9:53 AM MST up reply actions

The only defense I can think of for Grimm

Is who he has to work with.

by Jesse Reynolds on Jan 12, 2012 12:40 PM MST reply actions 1 recs

Exactly

In reality none of us outside of the organization know how good of a coach Grimm is.

He has scrubs basically besides Levi. We haven’t drafted an Oline since Levi (unless u consider kieth). Give grimm some Damn talent to work with THEN let’s see how he does.

by cgcardzfan on Jan 12, 2012 5:02 PM MST via mobile reply actions

Agreed ....

but if the FO loves him so much then why haven’t we seen a decent draft pick in the last few years for the o-line? Either they aren’t listening or he isn’t talking (neither makes much sense) or he has an overinflated opinion of his ability to turn what we have been seeing into something really good. Just doesn’t make sense.

"The true test of a person's intellligence is how much they agree with you."

by pthesz on Jan 12, 2012 5:17 PM MST up reply actions