The Arizona Cardinals have a new head coach in Jonathan Gannon who was a defensive coordinator in his last job. He made defensive play calls for the Philadelphia Eagles.
He has brought Nick Rallis over from the Eagles to be the Cardinals’ new DC. When Gannon introduced Rallis to the media for his introductory press conference, he revealed that Rallis will call the defense.
Gannon will let his coordinators handle the playcalling.
Cardinals fans will have to get used to that.
Kliff Kingsbury was the offensive playcaller when he was head coach. Bruce Arians was too, when he was the leader.
Ken Whisenhunt called plays as head coach for part of his time with the organization.
Steve Wilks had DC Al Holcomb call defensive plays for his one year as head coach in 2018 but that was only one year in the last decade where the head coach was not actively calling plays for one side of the ball.
This will be Rallis’ first opportunity to do it as the youngest coordinator in the NFL. We will if there are many growing pains.
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