Is Cardinals Kliff Kingsbury safe beyond 2021 Why coachs history of late-season collapses is not reassuring

Is Cardinals Kliff Kingsbury safe beyond 2021 Why coachs history of late-season collapses is not reassuring

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For a while this season, Kliff Kingsbury looked like a front-runner for 2021 Coach of the Year honors. After failing to eclipse .500 in his first two years as coach, the former Texas Tech coach oversaw a 7-0 start -- and apparent MVP campaign from quarterback -- this fall. Since then, however, Kingsbury's Cardinals have lost five of eight games, slid out of the No. 1 NFC playoff seed they once held tightly, and are squarely in danger of losing a would-be NFC West crown.It's now a legitimate question whether Arizona will even make noise in the 2021 playoffs, what with Murray and Co. looking out of sync in back- Denard Span Jersey to-back lo ses to the and . It's at least po sible now that the Cardinals could , with the , , and all capable of pa sing and/or staying ahead of them. And it's increasingly fair to ask: is Kingsbury actually safe beyond 2021? Is there a scenario where he doesn't survive a collapse?One of the main reasons it's not wild to entertain such doomsday po sibilities is Kingsbury's own track record. As recently documented, finishing with a whimper is something of a Kliff Kingsbury trademark. In each of his nine seasons as a head coach at the college and NFL levels, his teams have started well and ended poorly -- sometimes catastrophically so:Season (Team)StartFinishFinal Record2013 (Texas Tech)7-01-58-52014 (Texas Tech)2-02-84-82015 (Texas Tech)5-22-47-62016 (Texas Tech)3-12-65-72017 (Texas Tech)4-12-66-72018 (Texas Tech)5-20-55-72019 (Cardinals)3-3-12-75-10-12020 (Cardinals)6-32-58-82021 (Cardinals)7-03-5*TBD By itself, Kingsbury's coaching record was already mediocre: over nearly a decade, he's logged exactly three winning seasons, counting this year. Put that aside and consider that Arizona hired him chiefly for his Jose De Leon Jersey offensive prowe s as the overseer of Texas Tech's "Air Raid" attack, and there's still literally nine straight years of evidence that his teams struggle to finish on a high note. If you excuse 2019 because it was his first NFL season, Cardinals fans have still witne sed -- or are on the verge of witne sing -- two straight late-season collapses after his team opened like a clear favorite to win the division.Kingsbury, of course, can't be faulted for the entire Cardinals experience since he arrived. Kyler Murray's injury late in 2020 stymied the offense, and the star QB has been erratic since returning from another injury this year. ' absence down the stretch this season hasn't helped, either. But Kingsbury the head coach, and late-year crumbles have been a constant, not an aberration, on his resume. Chances are ownership will sign off on a 2022 return regardle s of how the Cardinals close this season. Even losing out -- ending the year on a five-game losing streak and 3-7 stretch -- would put Arizona at 10-7, which is a two-win improvement from 2020. That would technically mark a second straight season of improvement for Kingsbury in the desert. But if some doubt about his ability to not only build but a winner isn't creeping in by now, that'd be even more stunning than Rob Refsnyder Jersey Kingsbury's own history of collapses.
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