Juju Smith-Schuster joining the Arizona Cardinals would be a disaster

A tweet from @nflrums on Twitter put forth a source-less tweet that claimed the Arizona Cardinals are going to make a push for former USC huge receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster. This had me doing my greatest Michael Scott “NO!” impression.

I’m undecided if the league has seen a participant give extra bulletin board materials in a single season than what Juju Smith-Schuster did final yr. The pregame disrespect of dancing on the midfield brand of opposing groups, and posting it on Tiktok earlier than the sport. The notorious quote of “The Browns is the Browns…they’re only a bunch of anonymous grey faces”. If you add in the truth that Chase Claypool additionally began to do the identical because the yr went alongside, the crimson flags are numerous.

#Cardinals anticipated to make a push for #Steelers WR Juju Smith-Schuster #NFL #Arizona

— NFL Rumors & Information (@nflrums) February 14, 2021

Including Smith-Schuster to the Cardinals can be a catastrophe. Whereas Steve Keim might technically nonetheless signal him, there isn’t a logical sense to take action. Aside from possibly Tyrann Mathieu and Robert Nkemdiche, what different extremely questionable gamers have signed with the Arizona Cardinals within the final ten years?

One other challenge is that this offense (exterior of Larry Fitzgerald) has nobody who holds the group accountable. One might make the argument for DeAndre Hopkins, however one season with the group isn’t sufficient pattern measurement for myself personally to make a judgement on that. No person would actually have a shot at stopping this man from giving additional motivation.

The place was the urgency and communication when the group was slipping within the latter half of the season? I’ve gone on and on about how Kyler Murray and Kliff Kingsbury positive didn’t present a lot outward, optimistic encouragement throughout robust occasions.

Lastly, any form of off-the-field distractions for the group have arguably been the undoing of them. What I’m saying is that I consider the hail Mary acquired to their heads and created a lax mentality amongst among the gamers. Including Juju Smith-Schuster would destroy this group from the within out, similar to he did in Pittsburgh.

If Keim desires to maintain this optimistic development (albeit gradual) going, then he ought to avoid Smith-Schuster and draft a younger huge receiver as a substitute. I’ll take whoever that’s and Christian Kirk any day of the week as a substitute of JJS. Alternatively, Sammy Watkins, Curtis Samuel possibly even T.Y. Hilton are higher choices in free company. This group can not afford to overlook the postseason in 2021, and if that does occur, large change will happen inside the group and who is aware of what occurs after that.