Feb. 15, 2026, 10:54 a.m. MT<\/p>\n
The Arizona Cardinals<\/a> somewhat surprisingly decided to retain Nick Rallis as defensive coordinator. That has been met by mixed responses from fans. However, a captain on the Cardinals appears pleased that Rallis will return to lead the defense.<\/p>\n Linebacker Mack Wilson posted this on his Twitter\/X account this past week after the report that Rallis was being retained.<\/p>\n It is a photo of Wilson with Rallis, captioned “Unfinished business.”<\/p>\n Wilson became the Cardinals’ starting “Mike” linebacker last season. He was ateam captain for the first time. And he had his season cut short after only eight games, suffering a rib injury at the end of the Cardinals’ final win of the year, a 27-17 over the Dallas Cowboys in Week 9.<\/p>\n Wilson didn’t play again, and the Cardinals never won again. Over the nine games Wilson missed, the Cardinals allowed over 30 six times.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n By retaining Rallis, it makes it much more likely that much of the personnel on defense will be the same. Wilson enters the final year of his three-year contract with no guarantees remaining. A new coordinator might have prompted signing a new linebacker and cutting Wilson. We should likely expect Wilson to return to his role of defensive leader, relaying playcalls to the defense and manning the middle of the field.<\/p>\n Get more Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from Cards<\/a> Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 15, 2026, 10:54 a.m. MT The Arizona Cardinals somewhat surprisingly decided to retain Nick Rallis as defensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2078],"tags":[95878,375,390,2604,1327,7,6,95973,95974,95882,95890,95888,95895,95899,95883,95894,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-755690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcardinals","16":"tag-sstsncardinals","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagarizona-cardinals","19":"tag-tagnfl","20":"tag-tagnfl-hub","21":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","22":"tag-tagsports-news","23":"tag-tagtwitter","24":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116079671590553968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755690","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=755690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}