Steve Keim Blasted After Taking Shot Towards Cardinals, Jonathan Gannon

The Arizona Cardinals are preparing for their Week 2 battle against the New York Giants, and former general manager Steve Keim continues to talk about his former team on various podcasts.

Keim - who stepped away due to "health reasons" at the same time Kliff Kingsbury was fired - hasn't been shy about making his opinions known on topics such as the Haason Reddick mishandling and Kyler Murray.

Now, he apparently is taking shots at new general manager Monti Ossenfort and head coach Jonathan Gannon.

On The Volume Sports show with Colin Cowherd, Keim said this on hiring defensive coaches:

"If you're going defense nowadays Colin, if you are going defense, and I know there are some outliers out there, but if you are going a young defensive coach nowadays, he better be a special leader. Like a gamechanger."

Keim hired Kingsbury - an offensive specialist - who went 28-37-1 during his tenure in Arizona.

Gannon was hired this offseason after a strong performance as the Philadelphia Eagles' defensive coordinator. Both he and Ossenfort are first-timers in their new roles.

Some comments from Twitter/X/whatever the cool kids call it now.

Someone tell Keim to shut his mouth and focus on his health and family.
— Kiernan Ryan Daley 🌵 (@KiernanDaley) September 12, 2023

Steve Keim was the dysfunction.
— Alex Clancy (@ClancysCorner) September 12, 2023

Someone tell Steve Keim "leadership" is an important trait no matter who are you hiring as HC. Seems to have missed that box when hiring Kliff. https://t.co/OtJvkzMQhb
— Jody Oehler (@radiojody) September 12, 2023

Keim’s drafting and decisions have literally ruined this franchise to the ground and now Monti has to fix his mistakes. He had never taken accountability when he got DUI and since Arians era, he hasn’t done shit since. https://t.co/ysVSOX6dZh
— Bubba‼️ (@azbubba04) September 13, 2023

In the offseason, plenty of Cardinals have made remarks on the culture "shock" that has taken place in the desert.

"It's been a culture shock. No graduate shift - it's shock, either get with it or get going," left tackle D.J. Humphries said.

"That's really the mentality. It makes it easy, especially when you got older guys like me, Budda [Baker] and all those guys that's buying into this system, when you have your leaders [inaudible] there's nobody that's behind you that's gonna buck the system when they see guys like me, guys like K1 [Kyler Murray] Budda, that are gonna fall into place and doing everything right, they're gonna do the same thing."

Players feel like they're in a better place, and fans would agree with that despite the opening week loss to the Washington Commanders.