The Arizona Cardinals are entering the 2019 campaign with a new head coach at the helm in Kliff Kingsbury, meaning that the Cardinals have gone into the season with different coaches in each of the last three years.
But unlike Bruce Arians and Steve Wilks before him, Kingsbury is expected to bring a different dimension to Arizona's offense.
Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald actually says that the new, high-tempo offense is easier to learn, but that you have to keep up:
“It’s not so much what he’s installing that stands out; it’s how it’s run, the tempo of it,” Fitzgerald said, according to Robert Klemko of Sports Illustrated. “Every single day, with more experience, we were able to run it faster and faster and faster, get more plays in more efficiently.
“The faster guys understand the concepts the more pressure we can put on defenses. The language is simpler, but you have to process it faster. In this system, you’re on the ball and you don’t have an abundance of time to understand what’s going on. You have to decipher and be able to play fast.”
Kingsbury does not have any NFL coaching experience, as he spent the last six seasons as the head coach of Texas Tech. Still, the hiring has generally been regarded as a good one for the Cards, especially given that rookie Kyler Murray is under center.
Meanwhile, Fitzgerald is coming off of a 2018 campaign in which he played all 16 games and hauled in 69 receptions for 734 yards and six touchdowns.
The Cardinals won just three games this past year.
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