"They fired the whole coaching staff, the GM, brought in new guys, they brought their own guys in and it kinda left a bad taste in my mouth from the get-go because I could kinda tell they didn't want me there from the jump, and I had to put up with a lot of BS during OTAs," he said without going into detail.
"It used to drive me crazy. I haven't been too open about this, but I'm feeling better about it. It used to drive me crazy."
But it's not so much that fact that he wasn't in the Cardinals' plans that irks Schofield; it was how it all went down. To hear him describe it, the way the team handled his departure was callous, even by the standards of a notoriously cold-blooded business like the NFL.
"When I came in for camp they made me come in with the rookies as a fourth-year guy. I knew something was up. I was kinda ticked off about that. I ended up having a conversation with my agent. My agent said he'll talk to the player personnel. They said, 'Oh, everything's fine, we've got big plans for O'Brien and whatever he's reading, it's not true,' " Schofield recalled.
"So the next day, first day of camp, we go up for the conditioning test. The media's out there, my team's out there stretching. I go out to stretch and they pull me aside and basically cut me on the field. Didn't talk to anybody – no GM, no coach, no nothing. When I was walking I saw my coach; he just kinda moved right out the way, he didn't say nothing to me. So that made me mad."
"I'm trying not to even think about that right now. I'm just focusing on the games ahead," he said. "When that game comes(Arizona), believe me ..."
