Jan. 21, 2026, 3:43 p.m. MT<\/p>\n
There is a candidate in the Arizona Cardinals<\/a>‘ search for a new head coach who has not come up until today, and he is already at a second interview.<\/p>\n According to NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport<\/a>, Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile is flying in to Arizona Wednesday night have an in-person second interview with the Cardinals on Thursday.<\/p>\n His initial interview was never reported.<\/p>\n Campanile was a defensive coordinator in the NFL for the first time in 2025. The Jaguars had the league’s No. 1 run defense and were ranked eighth in points allowed and 11th in yards allowed. In the Jaguars’ eight-game winning streak to end the regular season, they did not allowed more than 20 offensive points, allowing an average of 14.5 points per game.<\/p>\n Before last season, in 2024, he was the linebackers coach and defensive run game coordinator for the Green Bay Packers<\/a>, and from 2020-2023, he coached linebackers for the Miami Dolphins<\/a>.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n From 2012-2019, he was in the college ranks with Rutgers, Boston College and Michigan.<\/p>\n With Campanile, the Cardinals have now interviewed or requested to interview 15 candidates. Two they wanted to meet with for a second time \u2014 Jeff Hafley and Robert Saleh \u2014 were hired as head coaches by the Dolphins and Tennessee Titans.<\/p>\n With his scheduled interview and an initial interview with Buffalo Bills<\/a> offensive coordinator Joe Brady, things appear to have turned a bit in the search. We will see if there ends up being any news on Thursday about a new coach after meeting with Campanile.<\/p>\n Get more Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from Cards<\/a> Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 21, 2026, 3:43 p.m. MT There is a candidate in the Arizona Cardinals‘ search for a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[95878,375,390,2604,1327,7,6,95973,95974,95882,95890,97082,96033,95976,95936,95951,95896,95888,95895,95899,96071,95884,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-695240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcardinals","16":"tag-sstsncardinals","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagarizona-cardinals","19":"tag-tagboston-college","20":"tag-tagbuffalo-bills","21":"tag-taggreen-bay-packers","22":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","23":"tag-tagmiami-dolphins","24":"tag-tagnational-sports","25":"tag-tagnfl","26":"tag-tagnfl-hub","27":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","28":"tag-tagsmg-timely","29":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","30":"tag-tagsports-news","31":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695240","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=695240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}