TEMPE, Ariz. — There’s a brand new NFC West title at stake: The battle of the draft rooms.
Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury’s reign as proprietor of the most effective draft-day digs is being threatened by Los Angeles Rams’ setup in a Malibu seaside home, and Kingsbury blames it on Rams coach and good buddy Sean McVay.
Kingsbury made a splash — no pun supposed — throughout final 12 months’s digital draft when stay cutaways on the printed confirmed him sitting on his white leather-based coach inside his modern Paradise Valley house with views of Camelback Mountain out the again of his floor-to-ceiling wall of home windows. The grandeur of his house, which included a resort-style yard with a fireplace pit, that was lit as temperatures hovered within the low 90s, led to a tweet that included the picture to go viral.
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— Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) April 24, 2020
On Thursday, Kingsbury was requested concerning the Rams’ try to unseat him for the title of finest draft-day digs.
“Yeah, I actually assume it is only a ploy by McVay to permit himself the chance to take his shirt off once more and bounce within the pool like he did on Laborious Knocks, most likely sip a bit of rose, dip within the ocean and make some draft picks,” Kingsbury mentioned. “I feel greater than something, he headed that up so it ought to be enjoyable to observe.”
Kingsbury received’t get an opportunity to problem McVay’s setup this 12 months as a result of the Cardinals will probably be drafting from their facility in Tempe, Arizona.