Ex-GM Steve Keim Will Analyze Cardinals On New Podcast

Steve Keim will be pontificating about the Cardinals this season.

The team’s ex-general manager has joined ‘Arizona Football Daily,’ a Cardinals-centric podcast co-hosted by longtime Valley radio voices Mike Jurecki and Tim Ring.

The first episode with Keim on it will debut Wednesday, September 11th, Jurecki said. The trio will analyze the Cardinals and the NFL three days a week – Monday, Wednesday and Friday – and San Tan Ford will be the title sponsor.

Keim is expected to bring former NFL coaches and players on the podcast, as he has a vast network of contacts after 24 years in the league.

Keim was the Cardinals’ general manager from 2013 through 2022 and finished 80-80-2. His tenure got off to a fast start, with two playoff appearances in the first three years, and he built a Super Bowl-contending roster in 2015 and 2016.

Keim was named NFL Executive of the Year for 2014, when the Cardinals won 11 games despite key injuries to quarterback Carson Palmer and others.

However, the team steadily declined and then bottomed out in 2018, when it went 3-13 with a point-differential of negative-200. Keim was arrested for a DUI before the season and then allegedly used a burner phone to communicate with fellow executives while under a no-contact edict during a suspension.

Keim pulled the plug on top-10 pick Josh Rosen after one season and drafted Kyler Murray No. 1 overall in 2019, helping kickstart an organizational turnaround.

The team peaked for a second time in 2021, when it began the season 7-0, but limped to the finish line and got destroyed in the wild card round of the playoffs. Arizona’s 2022 season was chaotic, and Keim left late in the year for health-related reasons.

Keim was fired after the season and replaced by Monti Ossenfort, who has earned consistent praise for his roster-building heading into Year 2.

Ossenfort has turned over much of the roster in a short time, but there are still several players around that Keim drafted or signed in free agency, headlined by Murray, safety Budda Baker, safety Jalen Thompson and tight end Trey McBride.