{"id":507747,"date":"2026-02-01T16:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507747"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:41:18","slug":"cardinals-appoint-rams-offensive-coordinator-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cardinals-appoint-rams-offensive-coordinator-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals appoint Rams offensive coordinator as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Cardinals have appointed Mike LaFleur as their new boss, with the LA Rams OC agreeing to a 5-season deal, the franchise revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona met with the Seahawks OC Klint Kubiak yesterday, but he is the favorite to become Las Vegas head coach after the Super Bowl, so the Cardinals picked another OC in the NFC West.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring our interviews for the head coaching vacancy, we met amazing candidates and learnt something from each of them,\u201d the Arizona owner shared. \u201cAt the end of the procedure, we chose Mike LaFleur as he has all the qualities to lead our organization to success as a manager. Mike is highly intelligent and understands this game in detail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so happy to have the chance to become the boss of the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to thank the owner and the GM for this chance,\u201d LaFleur wrote. \u201cHaving played against them in the division, I know how talented the footballers are in this team and can\u2019t wait to meet them and start working together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike replaces Jonathan Gannon, who was dismissed as the Cardinals&#8217; head coach at the beginning of January.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AZCardinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AZCardinals<\/a> plan to hire <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rams?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Rams<\/a> OC Mike LaFleur as their new head coach, per me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TomPelissero<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A bright young offensive mind whose brother is also the coach of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Packers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Packers<\/a>, Lafleur stood out early in the process. After due diligence, AZ makes the move. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HF9z79zJmE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HF9z79zJmE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/2018046469891150176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Cardinals have appointed Mike LaFleur as their new boss, with the LA Rams OC agreeing to a 5-season deal, the franchise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17485,27028],"news_category":[16703,16715],"gn_keywords":[19031,27029],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Arizona hired the Rams OC as the new manager.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507749,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507747\/revisions\/507749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507747"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507747"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}