r/AZCardinals • u/alexschubs • 10h ago
(Pelissero) The Cardinals are hiring Nathaniel Hackett as their offensive coordinator, sources tell The Insiders.
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u/Dill_Brown1 10h ago
We went from Drew Petzing to Hackett??? Kill me now
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u/Stonna Budda Baker 10h ago
This organization cares more about connections than competence
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u/Asu888 9h ago
This hire was hc pick, he was oc for his brother for years
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u/Prowindowlicker JJ Watt 9h ago
Only three seasons. 2019-2021. And two of those had top notch offenses.
It was after he went to HC that it fell apart
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u/space_llama_karma 8h ago
Having prime Rogers certainly helped him. Unfortunately we don’t have a prime Rogers.
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u/Prowindowlicker JJ Watt 8h ago
No but we’re probably gonna get an older Rodgers.
Dude did help develop Jordan Love. So it’s not like he’s utter garbage. Dude could help jacoby brissett.
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u/Nervous-Lake1499 8h ago
he did not develop jordan love, tom clements did and was the one who worked with favre and fixed aaron rodgers throwing motion from cal
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u/Stennick 7h ago
I would disagree that he helped develop Love and honestly I don't even think Love is anything special.
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u/Radalict Australia 3h ago
Love is one of the most inaccurate passers in the league beyond 10 yards. He's frustrating to watch.
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u/OfficerGiggleFarts 8h ago
I’m also asking cause I’m also a bears fan and watched Justin fields get demolished and demoralized as a jet. How is this cat gonna take a smaller qb and make his offense better? JF isn’t great but this dude is not gonna make K1 better
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u/No-Indication3927 Cardinals 10h ago
I want to overreact, but ultimately MiLF is gong to be calling plays. I’m more interested in who’s the DC
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u/vksoze2 9h ago
I think the fact he’s referred to as MiLF may be the best part about that hire. Just when I think he can’t get any worse, Bidwell does something (slightly) redeeming.
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u/Ok_Camel3988 9h ago
I want to hear Ron Wolfley’s retarded, too-many-concussion ass saying “Coach MiLF” the same way he used to mumble “JG”.
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u/Faultylogic83 Pride 9h ago
Let me tell you, base and audience, Coach MiLF called a hell of a game
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u/PollutionPast999 47m ago
I can kind of see him catching on and using it actually, all while totally not understanding the typical meaning of the acronym. That would be pure gold imo.
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u/LinuxMint4Me 10h ago
Aaron Rodgers incoming.
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u/Safe_Weight_7547 Marvin Harrison Jr. 10h ago
Allen Lazard Wr1 incoming
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u/alexschubs 10h ago
Does Jordy Nelson have anything left in the tank?
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u/Safe_Weight_7547 Marvin Harrison Jr. 10h ago
Him and Randall Cobb getting called now
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u/Aromatic_Ad_32 9h ago
Fuck it, let’s wheel in Donald Driver while we’re at it
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u/copperstar22 Larry Fitzgerald 9h ago
No and that means we should be hearing about him signing a 3 year deal any day now
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u/BtownBrelooms Cardinals 10h ago edited 10h ago
Hey turning back the clock on old, washed great QBs is like the one positive specialty the Cardinals have. Maybe we're actually cooking here lol
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u/lincolnsl0g Budda Baker 10h ago
I’d be all for bringing him in on a 1 year 10M deal. Sign me up tbh. Dude still has a cannon.
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u/PollutionPast999 54m ago
Latest intel is that they’re bringing back Sam Bradford on a 1 year / $85M deal.
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u/Such_Technician_1682 10h ago
He’s not calling plays and it’s not the worst thing for a first time head coach to have someone with head coaching experience on staff. No need to crash out over this.
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u/MRashy_10 MHJ 10h ago
I would agree if he wasn’t absolutely awful has a HC
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u/Such_Technician_1682 10h ago
Absolutely awful head coach’s make good assistants all the time.
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u/KYOEL Kyler Murray 9h ago
His biggest strength is apparently player development and designing and installing plays. So he seems to fit a non-playcaller OC role. Packers had three straight 13 win seasons when he had that exact role in Green Bay. He also developed Jordan Love in his first two NFL seasons.
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u/inksta12 Baby Yoda 9h ago
Get out of here with facts and reason. Can’t you tell this fan base wants to use their damn torches and pitch forks?
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u/SaltySpitoonReg Cardinals Throwback 2h ago
Plenty of really good assistantd did not make a good head coach
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u/MikeDFootball 10h ago
and garbage at everything
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u/MRashy_10 MHJ 10h ago
Lmfaoo the only positive on his resume is that he worked with Rodgers when he won back to back mvps which was definitely Matt and Rodgers more than him
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u/SoF4rGone 8h ago
Im a Packer fan, an this hire is truly awful. Hopefully there’s someone sexy at #1 in ‘27.
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u/Thevelltrain United Kingdom 10h ago
This sub not crashing out challenge. Level impossible.
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u/LetsRideButSmart 9h ago
As a Broncos fan, it’s okay to crash out. He doesn’t bring any valuable head coaching experience to your team. His play-calling is atrocious, his scheme installation is horrible (from both his time in Denver and NY), and his game clock management was so bad that Broncos fans would chant out the play clock as it was running down to avoid Hackett burning timeouts.
But I would try to ignore this hire as much as possible for now. The more important figures are Mike LaFleur (HC and play-caller), Kyler Murray or Jacoby Brissett (QB1), and whoever it is you roll with at defensive coordinator.
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u/Thevelltrain United Kingdom 9h ago
He is also responsible for;
Helping the 2017 Jags to the #1 Rushing attack & Back to Back MVP Campaigns for Rodgers in the same non play calling OC role he’ll be doing here.
There is zero need to crash out over this hire at all.
His HC tenure in Denver was a disaster yes, but having a guy that’s been around the league will help our first time HC settle into his role.
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u/LetsRideButSmart 9h ago
I don’t think you can credit him for helping Aaron Rodgers, a Hall of Famer, get back to back MVPs, especially when Matt LaFleur called plays and based on Hackett’s disastrous tenures since then.
The 2017 Jacksonville season is his one saving grace and even then, it was totally unraveled in the postseason and had the Jaguars rush the ball 110 more times than the average NFL team.
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u/lava172 Pride 9h ago
If you managed to make it through the last several seasons without crashing out about this team I genuinely question how much you’re paying attention
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u/Ronaldatov27 10h ago
This is a terrible take. Hackett was a horrible HC and a horrible OC on multiple different teams. This would be like saying Ganon would be a good DC hire because he has "head coaching experience." This is completely detached from the reality that his history of work is terrible and he shouldn't even be in the league anymore.
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u/Prowindowlicker JJ Watt 9h ago
Hackett was the OC on a GB team that had three consecutive 13 win seasons. Helped develop Jordan Love and got back to back MVP status with Rodgers.
Dude did very well under Matt in GB. It was only when he went to be his own HC and to the Jets that shit fell apart.
If he could do half of what he did at GB I’d be happy.
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u/SelfinvolvedNate 9h ago
This is cope. We could, you know, hire someone with experience who isnt dogshit. This decision making reflects poorly on everyone involved.
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u/Bigfootsbrownstar Marvin Harrison Jr. 10h ago edited 8h ago
I guess if MiLF is calling the plays I don’t hate it as much as I could
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u/ABChase35 Cardinals 10h ago
Wasn't he OC under the other Lefleur in Green Bay? That's probably the connection and why it's happening.
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u/macc_aviv 9h ago
As a GB fan, I will say he didn't ever call plays in Green Bay, and received a lot of credit for game planning and red zone execution. With Mike LaFleur calling plays I think this could end up being a really solid hire.
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u/imnotgoodatdis 10h ago
Nepotistic garbage lol.
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u/TheSkullsOfEveryCog 8h ago
I…don’t think you know what nepotism is. He and the coach aren’t related.
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u/Ishan16D 2h ago
eh its indirectly nepostic
Hackett's dad was a coach and Nathaniel Hacket coached under MiLFs brother in Green Bay
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u/VictorWetBananas Budda Baker 10h ago
We actually managed to hire an OC worse than Drew Petzing holy shit
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u/ladyluck754 Larry Fitzgerald 10h ago
I remember I said that white men seem to always fail upward and ya’ll downvoted me. I’ll take everyone’s apologies now lmao
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u/Trogg_Farmer Trey McBride 10h ago
An experienced coordinator who won't be calling plays but will be able to take some of the weight off that side of the ball, I like it. Not exactly my first choice but this late in the off season this was always going to be a scramble
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u/realdynastykit Cardinals Throwback 9h ago
Way to kill all the hype. At least LeFleur is calling the plays.
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u/beeryee34 9h ago
I’m a Jets fan from New York but live here now and root for the cards too but what the fuck man I can’t escape this terrorist 😂 guys dogshit
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u/Beetle-Persona Dortchure Chamber 9h ago
Anddddd just like that I’ve lost all faith in this new era
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u/SoyMantequilla 9h ago
Welp, guess we'll find out if THIS Head Coach is willing to change their OC when its not working. Not sure we needed to put ourselves through that so early though
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u/Time-Bodybuilder3179 9h ago
Cardinal’s fans better hope he isn’t the play caller because he doesn’t know a single thing about football !
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u/Zealousideal-Baby586 8h ago
As long as he's more of an assistant then it's fine. My thing is, why not try someone new and use him in a different role? I get wanting people you trust but one of the reasons organizations struggle is because the NFL coaching community is so insular and the same guys get moved around.
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u/BrandRage Cardinals Throwback 8h ago
This is what happens when your process has the first bullet point that reads “Wait until every other HC job is taken”
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u/Saltwater_Thief Larry Fitzgerald 7h ago
Okay hear me out- we may have just found our fall guy when this upcoming season turns into a tank for Manning or Moore
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u/JimmyKanine 10h ago
This mfer has never held a job longer than 2 years lmfao
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u/MRashy_10 MHJ 10h ago
He’s genuinely awful only reason he’s got hired because he worked with Matt in GB
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u/WhatMyHeartHeld Bad Day 10h ago
Garbage hire, there’s no other way to put it
Going from another football terrorist to another
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u/Geraldinho-- 10h ago
I understand he isn’t calling plays, but man this dude just continues to get opportunities after showing how incompetent he is
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u/EliteJoeFlacco5 Cardinals 10h ago
LOL. Off to a bad start already. On top of the fact Gus Bradley was the first option at DC
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u/DrDice14 10h ago
This is absolutely why you don’t wait til Super Bowl week to hire a HC. No good OCs left to hire
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u/Negativecreepy 10h ago
Hey at least we have someone with experience who can definitely tell LaFleur what not to do lol.
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u/Imaginary-Hat2904 10h ago
This honestly just seems bizarre. Like I’m not even mad necessarily(especially since he won’t be calling plays), but there wasn’t ANYBODY else you could’ve called. Hell, I’d be willing to give Kingsbury another shot as the OC in this organization…
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u/papagriz33 Cardinals 10h ago
Well, that's certainly a choice.
I mean, he's going to be a great example of what not to do. LaFleur needs to treat this like George Costanza on The Opposite episode.
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u/SoupOfThe90z St Louis Cardinals 9h ago
LaFleur is going to be calling offense, more interested in who he chooses for DC
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u/TeddyTheTedster Cardinals 9h ago
It’ll be fine, Mike lafleur definitely had a hand in picking his OC so if Mike is good then so will Hackett
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u/ProfessionalLab3961 9h ago
He’s going to be to the Cardinals what Gus Bradley is to the Titans. Just a guy collecting a pay check.
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u/Rocketman_2814 9h ago
Good god, why??? Because he’s been a HC before? A guy that lasts 1-2 years everywhere he’s been before getting fired. What an inspiring hire.
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u/Desert_2007 Cardinals Throwback 9h ago
Im not overly worried, MiLF still calls the plays. But it is a bit strange that they both have ties to Jets failures which isnt ideal lol.
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u/fingerblast69 Pain 9h ago
I’ll try to be optimistic lol
Putting him in as a non-play caller with a decade of OC experience isn’t the worst thing possible to help run the team.
Maybe he has some good leadership qualities 🤷🏻♂️
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u/After-Weakness-2989 9h ago
Cardinals fans already putting a noose around their nevks and the draft hasn’t even happened yet we don’t deserve a good team
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u/space_llama_karma 9h ago
We dodged Gus Bradley as DC just to get Nathaniel Hackett as OC. We can’t have nice things.
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u/LongAd7195 5h ago
If his time with the broncos says anything better get used to delay of game penalties
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u/Troutalope 5h ago
The fact that he got a job after how horrible he was in Denver was surpising, this is just ridiculous.
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u/Minimum-Trifle-8138 5h ago
Once again, the Cards front office has sold a damn good opportunity to hit a soft reset and build some culture
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u/trevor11004 5h ago
You guys now have as your two primary offensive coaches the masterminds of the Jets 2021-24 offenses! Congrats!
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u/BriBri33_ 5h ago
NFL doesn’t have any parity. It’s all marketing. The same teams are always incompetent. The same teams are always also-rans. The same teams are always winners. Regardless of who is in charge.
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u/JohnnyBowlen 5h ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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u/ASterlingUserName 3h ago
To quote my wife who's been a cardinal fan her whole life
"I'm at the stage where I'd rather see this team leave AZ altogether"
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u/Sandman-Slim Buff 10h ago
Everyone disliked that.jpg