{"id":677152,"date":"2026-01-14T18:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/677152\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:01:15","slug":"arizona-cardinals-request-interview-with-steelers-oc-arthur-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/677152\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals request interview with Steelers OC Arthur Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As the Arizona Cardinals continue to add names to their head coaching search, some will pique interest, some will leave you asking who, and some will just make you not interested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Not sure where Arthur Smith falls, but he is the latest in a now 13 person line of interviews the Arizona Cardinals have either requested or already interviewed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Smith was the Atlanta Falcons head coach for three uneventful 7-10 seasons, finishing with a 21-30 record. For an offensive coach, he has not really gotten a lot out of offenses since his stint with the Tennessee Titans, where they were 12th in yards and 10th in points in 2019 and second in yards and fourth in points in 2021. That lead to the Falcons gig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Since then, Smith\u2019s offenses have done the following &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, we know Smith can coach an average offense with decent talent, but can he improve an offense? Or will the Cardinals be another in the long line of average offenses with Smith at the controls?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Arizona Cardinals continue to add names to their head coaching search, some will pique interest, some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,84773,85477,14996,2604,1327,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-677152","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-arizona-cardinals-coaching-staff","11":"tag-arizona-cardinals-discussion","12":"tag-arizona-cardinals-news","13":"tag-arizonacardinals","14":"tag-cardinals","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115894765837638257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677152","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=677152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}