The Brief<\/p>\n
The Arizona Cardinals are once again in the market for a head coach after firing Jonathan Gannon.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals finished the 2025 season with a 3-14 record, the team’s most losses in a single season in franchise history.<\/p>\n
According to reports, the Cardinals have already put in multiple requests for interview with potential candidates.<\/p>\n
PHOENIX – Following one of the worst seasons in team history, the Arizona Cardinals are searching for their next coach after firing Jonathan Gannon.<\/p>\n
The backstory<\/p>\n
The Cardinals fired Gannon on Jan. 5<\/a> after finishing the 2025 season with a 3-14 record \u2013 the 14 losses are the most losses ever for the team in a single season. The Cardinals lost 14 of their final 15 games, finishing the season on a nine-game losing streak.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n From a win-loss perspective, 2025 was the worst season for the Cardinals since they moved to Arizona in 1988.<\/p>\n Gannon was hired by Arizona in 2023 after spending two seasons in Philadelphia as the Eagles defensive coordinator. In three seasons as Cardinals head coach, Gannon posted a 15-36 record.<\/p>\n The good news? The Cardinals hold the third-overall pick in the 2026 draft.<\/p>\n What’s next<\/p>\n Now that the Cardinals<\/a> are in the market for another head coach, here’s a look at the rumored candidates:<\/p>\n Vance Joseph<\/p>\n The Denver Broncos defensive coordinator is expected to interview for the Cardinals head-coaching job, per multiple reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Joseph served under then-Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury as the team’s defensive coordinator from 2019-2022. The Broncos are currently the number one overall seed in the AFC and have a first-round bye in the Wild Card round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n Robert Saleh<\/p>\n The Cardinals have requested an interview with the current San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator, per the NFL Network<\/a>. Saleh has head-coaching experience \u2013 from 2021-2024, he served as the head coach of the New York Jets.<\/p>\n Klint Kubiak<\/p>\n The Cardinals have also put in a request to interview the current Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator, per the NFL Network<\/a>. Kubiak’s Seahawks are the top seed in the NFC playoffs and have a first-round bye in the Wild Card round. Kubiak is the son of former NFL head coach, Gary Kubiak.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Anthony Weaver<\/p>\n The Cardinals have requested to interview the current defensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins, per the NFL Network<\/a>. Weaver played in the NFL from 2002 to 2008.<\/p>\n Thomas Brown<\/p>\n The Cardinals have put in a request to interview the current passing game coordinator of the New England Patriots, per the NFL Network<\/a>. The Patriots had an incredible turnaround in 2025, posting a 14-3 record and winning their division for the first time since 2019. The Patriots are the second seed in the AFC playoffs.<\/p>\n Raheem Morris<\/p>\n The former Atlanta Falcons head coach has an interview with the Cardinals next week, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n John Harbaugh<\/p>\n In a stunning move, the longtime head coach of the Baltimore Ravens was fired on Jan. 6<\/a>. While no official reports have linked Harbaugh to the Cardinals, bringing him to the desert would surely excite and energize the fan base. According to a report<\/a>, multiple teams have already expressed interest in Harbaugh, including a mystery team with a head coach already in place.<\/p>\n The Source<\/p>\n Information for this story was gathered from a FOX 10 report on Jan. 5, reports from FOX News and the Arizona Cardinals, and statistics from Profootballreference.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The Arizona Cardinals are once again in the market for a head coach after firing Jonathan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,254,117,232,1327,7,6496,7062,8357,251,249,255,6,242,6043,252,238,6957],"class_list":{"0":"post-662865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-atlanta-falcons","12":"tag-baltimore-ravens","13":"tag-broncos","14":"tag-cardinals","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-head-coach","17":"tag-jonathan-gannon","18":"tag-klint-kubiak","19":"tag-miami-dolphins","20":"tag-new-england-patriots","21":"tag-new-york-jets","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-philadelphia","24":"tag-robert-saleh","25":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","26":"tag-seahawks","27":"tag-the-cardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115857532140176558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662865","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=662865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}