ARIZONA CARDINALS

ESPN insider on Whisenhunt: Shouldn’t be fired, but might be

Dec 20, 2012, 10:03 PM | Updated: Dec 21, 2012, 6:31 pm

In less than two weeks from the time this article was written, the Arizona Cardinals’ 2012 season will be over.

At that point the franchise will have some important decisions to make, not the least of which is what to do at head coach.

Do they keep Ken Whisenhunt, who in six seasons with the team has won a pair of NFC West titles and taken the Cardinals to the Super Bowl? Or do they fire a coach whose career record is 45-49, and has gone just 18-28 over the last three seasons?

They are the same guy, after all.

“The realization that [Whisenhunt’s] entering the last year of his contract, when you start to do that then you start to say ‘OK, is it time to do the extension,'” ESPN NFL insider John Clayton told Arizona Sports 620’s Doug and Wolf Thursday. “And if they don’t do the extension and they start to review things and look at this season there might very well be a change.”

“I think it’d be a mistake because I think he’s too good of a coach to let go, but I think you can understand the circumstances.”

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