{"id":734894,"date":"2026-02-07T04:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/734894\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:05:22","slug":"rams-hiring-former-cardinals-hc-kliff-kingsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/734894\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams hiring former Cardinals HC Kliff Kingsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kliff Kingsbury is joining Sean McVay\u2019s coaching staff with the Los Angeles Rams, a person with knowledge of the decision tells The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The person spoke on condition of anonymity Friday because the Rams haven\u2019t announced the addition of Kingsbury, the respected offensive mind who coached against McVay and the Rams for four seasons in the NFC West as the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>The Rams haven\u2019t settled on a formal title for Kingsbury. McVay has a vacancy at offensive coordinator after Mike LaFleur landed the Cardinals\u2019 head coaching job, but up-and-coming assistant Nate Scheelhaase \u2014 who interviewed for multiple head coaching jobs last month \u2014 is also returning from the current staff.<\/p>\n<p>Kingsbury spent the past two seasons as the Washington Commanders\u2019 offensive coordinator, leading a powerful offense to the NFC championship game in the 2024 season. He mutually agreed to part ways with head coach Dan Quinn after the Commanders went 5-12 this season while quarterback Jayden Daniels and receiver Terry McLaurin struggled with major injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Kingsbury then interviewed for other offensive coordinator jobs before choosing to join the Rams, who had the NFL\u2019s most productive offense in total yards and points this season while going 12-5 and reaching the NFC title game. McVay\u2019s Rams had never led the league in total offense before this season, and their 30.5 points per game were the second most in his career.<\/p>\n<p>McVay and Kingsbury have been friends for years, and they\u2019ve traded ideas and strategies during previous gaps in Kingsbury\u2019s employment. Now they\u2019ll work together to design schemes for MVP Matthew Stafford, who led the league in yards passing and TD throws, and All-Pro receiver Puka Nacua, the NFL\u2019s receptions leader.<\/p>\n<p>Kingsbury is returning to Los Angeles after spending the 2023 football season as Southern California\u2019s senior offensive analyst alongside Lincoln Riley, his former teammate at Texas Tech.<\/p>\n<p>Kingsbury went 28-37-1 in four seasons with the Cardinals, leading the franchise to its only playoff appearance in the past decade \u2014 a 34-11 loss to the eventual Super Bowl champion Rams in the wild-card Round four seasons ago.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZSports\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @AZSports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kliff Kingsbury is joining Sean McVay\u2019s coaching staff with the Los Angeles Rams, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-734894","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-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116027374939325005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734894","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=734894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}