{"id":657983,"date":"2026-01-06T08:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/657983\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:44:12","slug":"arizona-cardinals-kyler-murray-has-a-message-for-jonathan-gannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/657983\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals&#8217; Kyler Murray has a message for Jonathan Gannon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/88023232007-2254663204.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Republic analyzes the Cardinals&#8217; firing of Jonathan Gannon<\/p>\n<p>The Republic&#8217;s Theo Mackie and Greg Moore discuss the firing of head coach Jonathan Gannon and where the Arizona Cardinals go from here.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" data-autotag=\"c6331531-478d-4c7a-b93a-28f5b26af3f9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arizona Cardinals<\/a> decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/cardinals\/2026\/01\/05\/jonathan-gannon-fired-arizona-cardinals-coach\/88015609007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/cardinals\/2026\/01\/05\/jonathan-gannon-fired-arizona-cardinals-coach\/88015609007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">part ways with head coach Jonathan Gannon<\/a> on Monday, Jan. 5, in a not-too-surprising move that creates an opening for a coach who will inherit a quarterback challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Kyler Murray, the No. 1 overall draft pick and one-time hope to become a cornerstone franchise quarterback, is unlikely to return to the team, with the belief he&#8217;ll be traded or cut in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Murray was shut down early this season but seems to harbor no ill will toward Gannon. The QB posted on X his appreciation for the now-former Cardinals coach, saying, &#8220;My guy, genuinely loved going to war with you. Appreciate who you are as a man and a coach. Warpath-&#8221; in a message sent late Jan. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Murray, 28, is under contract with Arizona, with nearly $40 million in guaranteed money this coming season, and more to be paid if Murray remains on the Cardinals roster.<\/p>\n<p>As for the team&#8217;s coaching vacancy, NFL rules stipulate interviews can be conducted Jan. 6-7 with assistants on teams that did not make the playoffs, as well as those on teams with first-round byes \u2014 the Broncos and the Seahawks.<\/p>\n<p>The other 12 playoff teams&#8217; assistants are not allowed to be interviewed before Jan. 13-14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\">Support local journalism: Subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cm.azcentral.com\/specialoffer?gps-source=CPNEWS&amp;utm_medium=onsite&amp;utm_source=TAGLINE&amp;utm_campaign=NEWSROOM&amp;utm_content=JEREMYCLUFF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">azcentral.com<\/a>\u00a0today.\u00a0Sign up for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/profile.azcentral.com\/newsletters\/AZCentral-Preps-Now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">azcentral Preps Now<\/a>. And be sure to subscribe to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/profile.azcentral.com\/newsletters\/manage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">daily sports newsletters<\/a>\u00a0so you don&#8217;t miss a thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic analyzes the Cardinals&#8217; firing of Jonathan Gannon The Republic&#8217;s Theo Mackie and Greg Moore discuss the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[247,265,375,390,2604,1327,7,248,267,246,88,6,245,264,537,530,9,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-657983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-arizona-cardinals","12":"tag-arizonacardinals","13":"tag-cardinals","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-national","16":"tag-national-sports","17":"tag-neutral","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-overall","21":"tag-overall-neutral","22":"tag-overall-positive","23":"tag-positive","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115847277204649326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}