Blake Allen Murphy
@blakemurphy7
Here's an interesting story on Keim, from someone in Trent Sherfield who played for him, on how the GM essentially had roster control over the coaches: >>>
The Trent Sherfield Prophecy
...He points to Year 2. The 2019 season with the Arizona Cardinals. That spring,
Sherfield trained 1-on-1 with one of the best receiver coaches ever in Jerry Sullivan, “a legend,” who dissected the position down to a science. Releases. Breaks. Footwork. Then,
Arizona drafted three wide receivers — Andy Isabella (62nd overall), Hakeem Butler (103rd) and KeeSean Johnson (174th) — to grow with first overall pick Kyler Murray. And
Sherfield accepted the challenge. He told himself “let the best man win,” applied the new technique to the practice field, and objectively
dominated. That summer, Sherfield outplayed them all.
“I can feel my game just skyrocketing,” he says. “It’s just going really,
really well. I had one of the best training camps of my life. I was playing lights out.”
In the preseason, he caught touchdowns in back-to-back games. The first, he roasted the corner for an over-the-shoulder, toe-tapping
beaut straight out of a textbook. The second, he slipped past two Raiders DBs for
a 40-yard score.
Arizona’s season opener vs. Detroit closed in and
the team’s wide receivers coach was brutally honest. “You should be starting,” Sherfield remembers him saying.
“But the GM doesn’t want to see you play. They want to see the drafted guys play.” Steve Keim, the head boss, had stepped in. Nothing that transpired from March to September mattered because Sherfield was the UDFA scrub...