{"id":729896,"date":"2026-02-04T23:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/729896\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:19:12","slug":"cardinals-to-hire-nathaniel-hackett-as-offensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/729896\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals to hire Nathaniel Hackett as offensive coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackett was seen as a rising coaching star during his tenure as Packers offensive coordinator from 2019-2021 during which he helped direct the league&#8217;s No. 1 offense in 2020 as <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/aaron-rodgers\/\" title=\"Aaron Rodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Rodgers<\/a> won back-to-back MVP awards (2020-21). But Hackett&#8217;s stock has taken a dip since with a failed one-year run as Denver Broncos head coach in 2022, and then an unsuccessful reunion with Rodgers as Jets OC in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Hackett&#8217;s run of success in Green Bay coincidentally came when he was paired with Mike LaFleur&#8217;s older brother, Matt, who had the role as offensive play-caller as Packers head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Mike LaFleur told reporters on Tuesday that he also plans to call plays on offense, so a similar LaFleur-Hackett pairing could be in the works in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>The offseason priority for the two will be to solve the Cardinals&#8217; QB dilemma with <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/kyler-murray\/\" title=\"Kyler Murray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyler Murray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Murray appeared in just five games this past season while battling a foot injury, casting into question the 2019 No. 1 overall pick&#8217;s future with the club.<\/p>\n<p>LaFleur <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/hc-mike-lafleur-embraces-challenge-of-turning-cardinals-around-if-it-were-easy-it-wouldn-t-be-worth-it\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said Tuesday<\/a> that he has been in contact with Murray since his hiring but declined to speculate on the QB&#8217;s status heading into an important offseason for the franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hackett was seen as a rising coaching star during his tenure as Packers offensive coordinator from 2019-2021 during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[390,1227,7,251,88,6,609],"class_list":{"0":"post-729896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals","9":"tag-around-the-nfl","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-miami-dolphins","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-no-minute"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116014924978188581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729896","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=729896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}