Former Cardinals’ head coach Bruce Arians always maintained, “It’s a short ride from the penthouse to the sh**house.”
And now, without Arians at the helm, the Cardinals, at 1-6 under new head coach Steve Wilks, are feeling especially haunted, not only by the former coach’s prognostications, but by the after effects of Arians’ 5 year trays of “coach ‘em up hard, hug ‘em later” cocktails.
Arians arrived in Arizona in 2013 with the unmistakable swag of a gambler who has been told by Casino Royale that he can play with all the house money he wants. Team president Michael Bidwill said that he and GM Steve Keim knew Arians was their guy when he dropped a cascade of f-bombs over cocktails at their “get to know you” Steak 44 gathering.