{"id":748542,"date":"2026-02-13T05:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/748542\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:28:14","slug":"cardinals-retain-nick-rallis-as-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/748542\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals retain Nick Rallis as defensive coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When Jonathan Gannon took over as the Green Bay Packers\u2019 defensive coordinator, after a stint as the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, many tabbed Cardinals defensive coordinator Nick Rallis to be a potential linebackers coach candidate in Green Bay. Rallis was not only Gannon\u2019s DC in Arizona, but he was the one on-field coach that Gannon brought to the Cardinals from the Philadelphia Eagles, Gannon\u2019s previous stop. In Philly, Rallis was Gannon\u2019s linebackers coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Instead, Gannon hired Sam Siefkes, who had previously coached linebackers under both Gannon and Rallis, in Arizona before he spent 2025 as the defensive coordinator at Virginia Tech. Now, we know why Rallis wasn\u2019t available for the job with the Packers: The Cardinals are keeping him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mzenitz\/status\/2022170140016828885\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to CBS Sports\u2019 Matt Zenitz<\/a>, Arizona will be rolling with Rallis as its defensive coordinator under new head coach Mike LaFleur, the younger brother of Packers head coach Matt LaFleur. This is one of the rare times when a coordinator is actually retained by the new staff. Apparently, Arizona and Green Bay will be running a similar blueprint moving forward, with crossover from both their offensive and defensive leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Beyond the obvious connections between the LaFleurs, Mike hired Nathaniel Hackett, who was in Green Bay from 2019 to 2021 as an offensive coordinator and reemerged with the Packers as a defensive analyst, as his offensive coordinator. LaFleur and Rallis will be calling plays in Arizona, leaving Hackett in a non-play-calling role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Jonathan Gannon took over as the Green Bay Packers\u2019 defensive coordinator, after a stint as the head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1227,1327,7,97481,2702,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-748542","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-around-the-nfl","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-green-bay-packers-coaching-staff","15":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116061674563583691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748542","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=748542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}