{"id":749069,"date":"2026-02-13T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/749069\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:00:28","slug":"arizona-cardinals-to-bring-back-nick-rallis-as-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/749069\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals to bring back Nick Rallis as defensive coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">While the Arizona Cardinals continued their search for a defensive coordinator, there was always some who believed they may already have him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports is reporting that the Cardinals will retain Nick Rallis as defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This would be fun, since the beginning of the offseason there have been murmurs that the Arizona Cardinals could possibly, maybe, potentially hold onto Rallis as their defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Now, national media is reporting it is done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sometimes when I get these tidbits handed to me I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible, and why I usually leave them in either the comments or buried somewhere in an article, but now it is official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">However, as Uncle Jess and I have discussed before, maybe the belief is that he was so held back and required to run what Jonathan Gannon wanted done, that he can make this work this time.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">What are your thoughts the Cardinals bringing Rallis back as DC?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Arizona Cardinals continued their search for a defensive coordinator, there was always some who believed they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,2792,7,7062,3957,6,26343],"class_list":{"0":"post-749069","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-defensive-coordinator","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-jonathan-gannon","15":"tag-matt-zenitz","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-nick-rallis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116062979782226385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749069","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=749069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}