The Arizona Cardinals have requested an interview with New York Giants outside linebackers coach Charlie Bullen for their vacant defensive coordinator position.<\/p>\n
Bullen is one of the few coaches retained by new Giants\u2019 head coach John Harbaugh, and served as the Giants\u2019 interim defensive coordinator last year. He quickly made a name for himself as the Giants\u2019 defense improved significantly over the final stretch of the season. Bullen is also credited with helping Brian Burns have a career year in 2025, racking up 16.5 sacks in a DPOY-caliber performance.<\/p>\n
He earned praise from both Burns and Kayvon Thibodeaux.<\/p>\n
Burns said, when asked about Thibodeaux \u2018flipping a switch\u2019 in 2024, \u201cI can\u2019t really put a finger on when it happened. I know he made a decision to make that switch. I know (outside linebackers) Coach Bullen had – I call him Charlie, only I can call him that. Charlie had a big influence on that switch with KT and I\u2019m proud of what he\u2019s been doing so far.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCharlie Bullen has been a great asset to me and the rest of the guys in the room,\u201d Thibodeaux said.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals were one of the last two teams to hire a head coach and are only just beginning to fill out their coaching staff. We\u2019ve suspected for a while that Bullen would get an opportunity to be a full-time defensive coordinator in the NFL, and the Dallas Cowboys also expressed interest before going elsewhere.<\/p>\n
While this is a great opportunity for Bullen, the Giants wouldn\u2019t be heartbroken for him to return and help the outside linebackers continue to improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Cardinals have requested an interview with New York Giants outside linebackers coach Charlie Bullen for their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,81078,1207,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-729858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-new-york-giants-coaching-staff","13":"tag-new-york-giants-news","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkgiants","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116014846518348892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729858","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=729858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}