Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians uses a nickname with a cuss word to describe tight end Troy Niklas.
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Everyone’s favorite coach is back at it again with the cuss words. For those that don’t know Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians, he uses expletive language so eloquently, that he might be the William Shakespeare of this era.
He lets players know when he’s had it with them and his verbosity matches his down-the-field play calls. Still, that’s what makes Arians one of a kind in the NFL and it’s the reason he has won Coach of the Year awards and has the Cardinals as a Super Bowl contender.
Tight end Troy Niklas has often caught the ire of Bruce Arians, like many other players, since he was drafted by the team in 2014. Niklas, who has failed to live up to his second-round draft pick status, has been having a good training camp for the Cardinals and Arians told Darren Urban of azcardinals.com, just how well Niklas was doing.
Niklas was happy to hear just how highly his coach thought of him and mentioned that Arians mistakes him for a dumb motherf*****.
.@AZCardinals TE Troy Niklas, happy to hear Arians said he's playing well: "He gets my name confused with dumb mother(expletive) a lot."
— Darren Urban (@Cardschatter) August 9, 2016
That quote probably best sums up Arians’ love for his players. If he isn’t calling them just about every name in the book, then they probably aren’t playing up to the winning standard he demands of them.
Next time Niklas is in pass pro, he will have a chance to hear his real name or his nickname depending upon if he can keep Carson Palmer standing tall.