{"id":736274,"date":"2026-02-07T19:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/736274\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:04:38","slug":"arizona-cardinals-fans-give-mike-lafleur-hire-high-marks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/736274\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals fans give Mike LaFleur hire high marks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Cardinals fans and fans across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/EFIUQ7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sign up here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sign up here<\/a> to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Happy Saturday one and all.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Arizona Cardinals announced Mike LaFleur as their new head coach about one week ago, they introduced him on Tuesday and announced the hiring of Nathaniel Hackett on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So when we asked the question of what your initial grade of LaFleur\u2019s hire was, it was not surprising to see fans as cautiously optomistic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">68% of fans graded it as either a \u201cB\u201d or \u201cC\u201d with the majority of fans giving it a \u201cB\u201d grade, and that makes sense. You want to be excited, but it is mostly cautiously, as you try and believe in what the Cardinals are doing when it is the Cardinals and they have not earned that right.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9821541a05fc1bc3499dca74d273317a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">However, only the most jaded are against the hire, so seeing how much the fans are trying to be excited while not overreacting makes a lot of sense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">What did you grade the hire?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,7,24211,26287,9070,6,6957,106248],"class_list":{"0":"post-736274","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-mark-j-rebilas-imagn","14":"tag-mike-lafleur","15":"tag-nathaniel-hackett","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-the-cardinals","18":"tag-wife-lauren-lafleur"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116030909004011338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736274","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=736274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}