{"id":702823,"date":"2026-01-25T01:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/702823\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:34:16","slug":"arizonas-head-coaching-search-down-to-3-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/702823\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona’s head coaching search down to 3 candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Arizona Cardinals’ coaching gig up for grabs<\/a>, the team has been doing interviews with a wide-array of candidates, with three seeming to be in heavy consideration. While the expectation has been that the Cardinals won’t be getting a \u201csplashy\u201d<\/a> hire, as said by<\/a> Jordan Schultz, the latest reporting from NFL insider Dianna Russini breaks it down to three candidates.<\/p>\n

Looking at the \u201clead candidates,\u201d<\/a> Russini lists former Atlanta Falcons head coach Raheem Morris<\/a>, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile, and Los Angeles Rams offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur as the three at the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now the Arizona Cardinals consider Raheem Morris, Anthony Campanile, and Mike LaFleur as their lead candidates, per sources,\u201d Russini wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday.<\/p>\n

This would back up previous reports, like from Jeremy Fowler, who mentioned how Campanile is \u201cfirmly in the mix.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI’m told Anthony Campanile is firmly in the mix coming out of his in-person interview with the team this week,\u201d Fowler wrote on X Friday.<\/p>\n

Arizona general manager Monti Ossenfort would speak about the head coaching search, saying how it won’t be a \u201cquick process,\u201d<\/a> via Sports Illustrated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an important decision that Michael and I are going to undertake, and so we are going to be thorough,\u201d Ossenfort said. \u201cWe’re going to look at a wide range of candidates, and because of the NFL rules that they stand with [in terms of] timing of when we can talk to guys that are still in the playoffs, this is not a process that’s going to be quick.\u201d<\/p>\n

At any rate, it remains to be seen who will eventually be the Cardinals’ next head coach and if it is any of the three coaches Russini mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Arizona Cardinals’ coaching gig up for grabs, the team has been doing interviews with a wide-array…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,7,7062,26287,6,832,2663],"class_list":{"0":"post-702823","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-cardinals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jonathan-gannon","14":"tag-mike-lafleur","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-rumors","17":"tag-raheem-morris"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115953170689282032","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702823","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=702823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}