Kliff Kingsbury tests positive for COVID, won’t coach this weekend

Posted by Mike Florio on October 15, 2021, 8:23 PM EDT
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When the 5-0 Cardinals face the Browns in Cleveland on Sunday, Arizona won’t have its head coach.

Jay Glazer of Fox Sports reports that Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury has tested positive for COVID, and he will not be present for Sunday’s game against the Browns.

Cardinals defensive end Chandler Jones already is expected to miss the game due to a COVID diagnosis. Not having Kingsbury will make it even harder to win.

That said, the Browns steamrolled the Steelers in the playoffs in January without coach Kevin Stefanski, who missed the game due to a positive COVID diagnosis.

Kingsbury is the first head coach to miss a game this season due to the infection.

UPDATE 8:25 p.m. ET: The Cardinals have announced Kingsbury’s positive test. Also testing positive were quarterbacks coach Cam Turner and defensive tackle Zach Allen.

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31 responses to “Kliff Kingsbury tests positive for COVID, won’t coach this weekend”

  2. People are still worried about a virus that, according to most, has a life saving vaccine readily available but already has a 99.5% survival rate? Clowns

  3. Wow. AZ should just rest most of the starters and use this game to get healthy. Get everyone back healthy next week and move on. It’s a non conference 1 game that doesn’t count in the NFC race won’t mean much in the totality of the season.

  6. Man sounds like they had an outbreak in the building, a super spreader event. Good thing the NFL basically forced everyone to get vaccinated so this very thing wouldn’t happen.

  7. ATFIRSTGLANCE – That’s a keen observation there buddy. I mean it’s not like AZ isn’t undefeated or the Browns didn’t just allow almost 50 points to an offense that’s inferior to AZs or anything…..

  10. I completely forgot AZ has coach Kugler on the staff. Kugs is one of the best OL coach’s in the NFL and designs the run game. He knows the offense inside and out. AZ should be able to get through the game without Kliff for a week.

  11. touchback6 says:
    October 15, 2021 at 8:34 pm
    low iq in Arizona

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    Yeah cuz it’s never happened in mass.

  13. People who are unvaccinated against COVID – 19 are dying. People who haven been vaccinated aren’t dying and taking up bed space in ICU’s. It’s that simple if you dig facts and stuff

  14. So, that should just be about enough. We’ve had almost a year of being able to be vaxxed. There’s anti-vaxxers, folks that got the jabs ASAP, and the indifferent. It’s well-known that the vaxxed are a lot less likely to be hospitalized/die. We know the risks, live and let live (or die). I’m in a city that basically follows that credo. Strap a mask on Kliff and let him coach.

  19. Just stop already with this non sense. He probably doesn’t even have COVID. How many false positives have there been? Too many.

  20. Any of you Einsteins think that maybe if 80 or so percent of those eligible to get vaccinated when you were supposed to that it may have 1) slowed transmission of the virus and 2) decreased the likelihood that variants more resistant to the vaccine would have developed? To hell with the good of humanity if it inconveniences you, I guess.

    Idiots!

  21. turdferguson98 says:
    October 15, 2021 at 8:27 pm
    Wow. AZ should just rest most of the starters and use this game to get healthy. Get everyone back healthy next week and move on. It’s a non conference 1 game that doesn’t count in the NFC race won’t mean much in the totality of the season.
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    Last season AZ went 8-8 and lost the tie breaker to the Bears for the last playoff spot. Yeah! Just rest your starters.

  25. Contract tracing and surveillance testing the fully vaccinated in an environment where 9/10 or even more people are also vaxxed is pure silliness. It’s theater. We have to stop with the asymptotic testing. Why? Because the virus does what it does. We now have this thing about equivalent to the flu in terms of risk. And with therapeutics incoming, it will get even better. Some people just can’t quit this.

  26. plowdawg65 says:
    October 15, 2021 at 8:27 pm
    People are still worried about a virus that, according to most, has a life saving vaccine readily available but already has a 99.5% survival rate? Clowns

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    Clowns are people that think 5 dead out of 1000 infected is some great number.

  28. It’s a shame but it’s part of the deal. It doesn’t matter what vaccination level the nfl has, games were going to be missed.

  29. The Cards are going to wing it on play calling according to media reports.Kingsbury is going to script a bunch of plays but then it might be up to the QB to improvise.The QB (yeah I forget his name already) is athletically gifted enough that it might turn out to be a positive.

  30. When will this clown show stop? Will they keep doing this until the end of time? It’s a virus and you can self medicate and survive. It will never go away.

  31. The vast majority of people who have died “with” Covid had already lived beyond their average expected lifespan. People (especially athletes) in their 20s and 30s are at an infinitesimally small risk of dying of Covid. I’m fact to date, even before the vaccine, zero NFL players or staff have died of Covid

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