Horton angry about Arians hire

[Mr. Laz]

Ray Horton angry after Cardinals hire Bruce Arians

Posted by Michael David Smith on January 17, 2013, 9:53 PM EST

AP

The Cardinals have hired Bruce Arians as their new head coach, and the in-house candidate who was passed over for Arians isn’t happy about it.

Ray Horton, the Cardinals defensive coordinator who did an excellent job in 2012 while the Cardinals’ offense fell apart, was considered a strong candidate to replace the fired Ken Whisenhunt as the next head coach. Instead, the Cardinals have announced that Arians, who spent last season as the Colts’ offensive coordinator and interim head coach, will get the job. Multiple reports say Horton was angry at that announcement.

Mike Jurecki of XTRA 910 reports that Horton had a heated exchange with new Cardinals General Manager Steve Keim when he found out that Arians got the job. Mike Garafolo of USA Today reports that Horton is “pissed.”

It’s hard to blame Horton for feeling that way. He’s a well regarded defensive coordinator who paid his dues as an assistant and before that as an NFL player for 10 years. In any line of work, to be passed over for a promotion you think you have coming stings.

Horton still has a year on his contract with the Cardinals, but Arians isn’t believed to want him to stay, and it sure doesn’t sound like Horton wants to stay. So Horton will presumably start looking for another job as an assistant, somewhere, after thinking he had a good chance of staying in Arizona and becoming the Cardinals’ next head coach.

[-King-]

Originally Posted by 300 Bowler

Are you seriously implying that the Cardinals waited until all of the other HC vacancies were filled, JUST SO THEY COULD **** OVER HORTON?

You're ****ing reeruned.

Or maybe to force him to stay as DC.

[Garcia Bronco]

Why do people think other people should be happy about losing?

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by -King-

http://forums.azcardinals.com/showthread.php?t=64220

I don't think some people around here realize that nearly all teams have True Fans. Not just the Chiefs.

[-King-]

Holy shit they're pissed http://forums.azcardinals.com/forumdisplay.php?f=23

[RealSNR]

Marty, pr_capone, and Flopnuts need to do a webinar on saving your favorite sports franchise. A few of those guys could easily get trained to do what we did.

Airplane banners and twitter. That's all it takes.

[Ace Gunner]

Originally Posted by -King-

Holy shit they're pissed http://forums.azcardinals.com/forumdisplay.php?f=23

"Just thought I would make the very first fire Arians thread! He's old ! This is the worst cards fans"

imbeciles

[ArrowheadMagic]

And people called Clark cheap.... Bidwell owns the copyright.

[mcaj22]

Originally Posted by 300 Bowler

Are you seriously implying that the Cardinals waited until all of the other HC vacancies were filled, JUST SO THEY COULD **** OVER HORTON?

You're ****ing reeruned.

the team publicly denied requests of other teams to interview him and clearly strung him along. he has a reason to be mad, especially now that all the other coaching vacancies are locked up.

it's a shitty cheap organization, they are paying their GM 750k, the lowest paid GM in the league for comparison we were paying Scooter 7 to 8 million to field the pile of shit he did.

[DTLB58]

Originally Posted by mcaj22

the team publicly denied requests of other teams to interview him and clearly strung him along. he has a reason to be mad, especially now that all the other coaching vacancies are locked up.

it's a shitty cheap organization, they are paying their GM 750k, the lowest paid GM in the league for comparison we were paying Scooter 7 to 8 million to field the pile of shit he did.

This exactly. Not only for Hc's but other DC positions. Not that, that's what he wanted, but it shows intent, One, how much he is wanted and two, now he can't get a HC job or the better DC jobs that were being offered first. At least let the guy choose where he wants to go. The team really restricted this guy.

To bad the Seahawks filled their DC position already he could have went there and kicked the Cards ass twice a year.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by SNR

Marty, pr_capone, and Flopnuts need to do a webinar on saving your favorite sports franchise. A few of those guys could easily get trained to do what we did.

Airplane banners and twitter. That's all it takes.

That's a phenomenal idea.

Except the Cards play in a dome.

[DaneMcCloud]

Seriously? Who the **** cares.

In two years, Ray Horton will be only a footnote at CP, just like Todd Bowles was in 2009 and 2010.

Stop the ridiculous grandstanding.

[DTLB58]

If ever there was a time when Goodell could step in and pull a Stern ( not allow a player trade). I wish the Commish could have made the Cards hire Horton as HC just to piss this ownership off for what they did to him.

[DTLB58]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Seriously? Who the **** cares.

In two years, Ray Horton will be only a footnote at CP, just like Todd Bowles was in 2009 and 2010.

Stop the ridiculous grandstanding.

So everyone is suppose to just stop giving our opinions because YOU say so?

Might as well close the BB and the Internet for that matter. Stop being an A** and go to bed if you don't agree. Geez.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by DTLB58

So everyone is suppose to just stop giving our opinions because YOU say so?

Might as well close the BB and the Internet for that matter. Stop being an A** and go to bed if you don't agree. Geez.

Oh, just shut the **** up.

Are you seriously whining because Horton is whining?

Are you?

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by DTLB58

If ever there was a time when Goodell could step in and pull a Stern ( not allow a player trade). I wish the Commish could have made the Cards hire Horton as HC just to piss this ownership off for what they did to him.

You're ****ing stupid