I don't want to make more of this than what it is, which is just a friend playing his upper hand in getting one over on a much more gullible friend. However, I can't help but feel like it reeks of one NFL head coach playing chess while another NFL head coach, who happens to have taken the reigns of a division rival, is playing checkers. Not for nothing, but that's very fitting of what many feel will come to fruition on the field. I understand why Kliff Kingsbury would be sensitive to the potential loss of any asset (especially the most highly coveted one) considering the state of the Cardinals' roster, and I credit Sean McVay for putting in the leg work of an altered contact to allow for the execution of the prank. Still, you can't convince me that the latter would have been liable to fall for the old "commissioner is texting out tampering charges during drink orders" gag had it been attempted on him two years ago. Again, that's not to say that truly believing the first overall pick had been stolen from him in insanely unprecedented fashion signals his inevitable demise as a head coach, but it's definitely not a good look for someone whose high-profile job requires him to call much, much more inconspicuous bluffs on a regular basis. I suppose you can't put anything past Roger Goodell and his outlandish executive order, but to assume a shared dinner had been both harshly and historically disciplined before it had even been digested? For someone whose credentials are already in question, I sure hope Kliff Kingsbury was inebriated or he's a bit too wide-eyed of a complete sucker for me not to consider it a con of a character trait that could affect him professionally. Especially since the friend who successfully yanked his chain has him on the schedule twice a year and has a playbook that's a hell of a lot trickier than that stunt.
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