Kliff Kingsbury tried to use pal Sean McVay’s marriage for payback.
The Cardinals mentor, attending his Rams counterpart’s nuptials about the weekend, jokingly tried using to convince star defensive deal with Aaron Donald to retire and Cooper Kupp, the NFL’s best receiver, to maintain out in his chase of a payday.
“I told (Donald), he’s completed all he can carry out and it’s a great strategy to go out on your personal conditions, all that,” Kingsbury advised reporters on Thursday. “And I instructed Kupp, I was fundamentally like, ‘I know you and Sean are good friends, but end using that McVay discounted, keep out for the 1st 3 months and get something sorted out.’
“You can explain to that did not operate out possibly.”
Donald and Kupp signed monster contracts this week to keep in Los Angeles: Donald scored a reworked three-year deal worth $95 million even though Kupp’s extension will pay him $110 million over the following five seasons.
The NFC West rival coaches have some hijinks in their history. In 2019 McVay certain Kingsbury they experienced dedicated tampering for acquiring evening meal with Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes.
“We have a mutual mate that I put his identify in my cellphone as (NFL commissioner) Roger Goodell,” McVay stated on “The Adam Schefter Podcast” in 2019. “I had this good friend mail me a textual content declaring, ‘I simply cannot feel you are at dinner with Kingsbury and Mahomes. You know greater than this. This is tampering. You are the two dropping picks.’
“I showed Kliff the textual content, and he observed a ghost. I stated, ‘You far better call [GM] Steve Keim proper absent.’ He claimed, ‘I thought I was going to reduce the No. 1 general pick.’
“We could not permit it go on as well very long, but it was very great. We bought him excellent.”
Inspite of their very good-natured ribbing, Kingsbury was content for his pal — and astonished at his marriage to Veronika Khomyn.
“He’s bought a lot more revenue than me, I’ll start off at that level,” Kingsbury stated with a smirk.
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