Grant believes the former Cardinals HC is getting a bad rap for his time in Arizona but there is reason for optimism for the Commanders offense.
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00:00I think one of the biggest mistakes we make
00:02in evaluating coaches, and in specifics,
00:06I think one of the biggest mistakes we make
00:08in discussing coordinators
00:10is using their head coaching resume
00:13as an indicator of the quality of a coordinator they can be.
00:17They're two completely different jobs,
00:19and one is a lot harder.
00:22It's also almost unrelated completely to the other,
00:26but being bad at a harder, bigger job
00:29where you manage more people and have a lot more to do
00:33does not mean you can't be sensational at a lesser job.
00:38I don't know if Cliff Kingsbury's gonna be
00:40the offensive coordinator they hired him to be,
00:43who's great, and if he is,
00:44then he might be a head coach a year from now,
00:46and he'll get another shot, ideally,
00:48in a situation better than that of Arizona.
00:50There's a reason why that team wins so rarely,
00:53and I hope for him that he gets that second act.
00:55Not everybody does.
00:56See a guy like Jay Gruden,
00:58who had one run as a head coach,
00:59and soon thereafter was out of football.
01:02But I just think that Kingsbury has held against him,
01:07that the last time he was a head coach,
01:09the Cardinals got outscored by 110 points,
01:11and he was blown out.
01:13Twice in his four years,
01:14they had a positive point differential.
01:17They were plus 43 as an eight and eight team
01:19in 2020 in the pandemic year,
01:20and they were plus 83 in the 2021 season.
01:24He had a better record as a coach overall
01:27than almost any of the guys that have come through here
01:29and stayed for four years.
01:31You know, your Shanahan, Zorn,
01:35any of those guys that were here and left,
01:39certainly Ron Rivera.
01:41Kingsbury actually was better than most of them
01:43as a head coach.
01:44But again, I wanna separate that and say,
01:47what did his offenses look like,
01:49and what is this particular unit gonna look like
01:51with him as an OC?
01:53Because it's a completely different, easier job,
01:56and I think there's a chance he's really good at it.