Kliff Kingsbury is either serious about leaving for college, or he is using it as leverage to get a massive deal from the Cardinals.
When ESPN’s Adam Schefter’s report dropped Sunday saying Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury was among those being targeted by Oklahoma to fill its head-coaching vacancies, many around the league gave their two cents.
On Monday, the Arizona Cardinals head coach was asked about those Oklahoma rumors, and he refused to shoot them down as he focuses on the team’s next opponent.
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Kingsbury, of course, is no stranger to the Sooners program, as he was the coach at Texas Tech, his alma mater, from 2013 to 2018.
Kingsbury is currently in the his third season of a four-year contract he signed back in 2019 that includes a fifth-year team option.
He expressed his desire to turn the franchise around with quarterback Kyler Murray as recent as Week 11.
“I’d rather have [my career] tied to (Murray) than about 99.9% of the quarterbacks in the NFL,” Kingsbury said ahead of the Seattle Seahawks game. “I just have always thought his upside, his top-top, is as good as anybody that I’ve ever seen. It’s been fun to work with him and try to figure this thing out.
“We butt heads — we’re both Leos and super competitive — so we’ll butt heads and go at each other at times, but we both know it’s from a great place,” the head coach added. “At the end of the day, he knows I’m tied to him, he knows we’re tied together, and we just got to find a way to get it done. We both approach it from that aspect.”
Kingsbury is 9-2 as the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals this season.
