The Arizona Cardinals have made a mistake in acquiring QB Kevin Kolb. The mistake has been made, the franchise overpaid for him and it’s simply time to move on now. I was going to give Kolb the benefit of the doubt last season as he joined the team in a very truncated offseason and dealt with some injury issues. After watching three Cardinals games this preseason, the fact is, he is not a starting caliber quarterback in the NFL.
Kolb has now had the benefit of a complete offseason with the Cardinals and looks no different this season than he did last year. He has been in the Cardinals system now for a complete season and one entire offseason, progress should be showing at this point. It’s not.
In limited action in three games so far this preseason, Kolb has completed just five of 15 pass attempts for 47 yards. Against the Raiders, he completed as many pass attempts as the number of times he was sacked, three. Kolb was also sacked for a safety against Oakland.
In deference to Kolb, the Cardinals offensive line is horrible and just suffered another blow this afternoon with the announcement that LT Levi Brown has suffered a torn triceps muscle and will miss significant time after undergoing surgery this coming week.
Raiders DT Tommy Kelly said after the game against the Cardinals that Kolb is “scared” in the pocket and there have been offseason rumors about his dedication to the game.
Despite his king’s ransom salary, it is expected that the Cardinals will likely name John Skelton as the team’s starter for the opening week of the season. He has not demonstrated any full grasp of the Cardinals offense and has not moved the team in his time under center.
Arizona invested a large amount of money in Kolb with $12 million of his $63 million dollar contract guaranteed last year along with a $10 million dollar signing bonus. Kolb received another $7 million in a roster bonus this year from the club on March 17th. The Cardinals are already on the hook for the money to Kolb this season, but they are going to be paying him a ton of money to back up Skelton.
There really isn’t any good tape of Kolb during his time at Arizona, so a trade of Kolb to any other team is highly unlikely. It was a bad move by the front office, but it’s time to admit the move was a mistake and move on.
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Isn’t the real mistake in the offensive line?
There are some good QB’s out there on teams with good O’lines. Those good QB’s wouldn’t be so good working for Arizona now would they
Easy to sit and run your big mouth- you are not facing a four-man rush with no offensive line. Who are you to give any pro player the benefit of the doubt? You need to shut up and let the guy get ready for the season. You will have a lot less words to eat later, if you do, but you are probably not capable of that.
Kolb is the reason why you don’t give multimillion dollar contracts to players with 11 career TDs and 14 INTs.
kolb sucks !!!!!!! get rid of mr. graves
or who ever made the call to bring kolb to az!!! and hope that detroit lions put kellen moore on their practice squad ,so the cards can snatch him up before any other team does,he way better than kolb !!!!!!
If Kolb were on the Cowboys,Giants or any other team besides the Cardinals, you would not hear anything negative about him.He is not a great QB but put him on another team you will hear nothing but excuses and positive things. why is that?, maybe the Cardinals are just forgotten.