PODCAST: Jonathan Gannon’s coordinators, offense and more

Seth Cox and Jess Root talk about Jonathan Gannon’s coordinators and more for the Arizona Cardinals.

We have a new podcast episode. Revenge of the Birds’ Seth Cox and I delve into things that new Arizona Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon has said since getting hired.

We discuss the coordinator decisions and the staff members we know so far, whether we think the Cardinals will get criticized for hiring all white guys as main leaders. We also talk about whether they need more coaching experience on the staff.

We go over what Gannon said about the offense and what we think of it, and we go through some of Gannon’s other comments from his introductory press conference and interview with Peter King.


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Here are the timestamps for the topics of discussion.

(1:00) The Cardinals and race, Gannon’s coordinators and limited experience

(26:35) Gannon’s comments about the Cardinals’ offense in 2023

(36:16) More of what Gannon said in interviews

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Cardinals’ bet on players with injury history paid off in 2019

Justin Pugh and D.J. Humphries played in all 16 games and Jordan Hicks led the NFL in defensive snaps played.

The Arizona Cardinals over the last few seasons have had a trend of adding and counting on players with questions about durability. In part, it was something they have done because of salary cap restraints and acquiring higher-risk, high-players is a way to succeed.

The problem is before 2019, it often came back to haunt them, especially on the offensive line.

The gamble paid off in 2019.

They stuck with D.J. Humphries and Justin Pugh, both of whom have earned the reputations of being injury-prone. Both started all 16 games this season and only missed a handful of snaps because of injury.

It didn’t work with Marcus Gilbert, who tore his ACL before the first game of the season.

But it did work on the defense with Jordan Hicks. He missed 21 games in the previous four seasons. He not only played all 16 games this season, he led the NFL in defensive snaps played, which was 100% of the team’s defensive snaps.

This doesn’t mean that they should keep going with this trend, but it means that it can work out.

Listen to the latest from Cards Wire’s Jess Root on his podcast, Rise Up, See Red. Subscribe on Apple podcasts or Stitcher Radio.

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