The Arizona Cardinals have had some coaching staff turnover this offseason. Six coaches do not return from last season’s staff. Offensive line coach Klayton Adams became the offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys and linebackers coach Sam Siefkes became the defensive coordinator for Virginia Tech. Passing game specialist Spencer Whipple is now the quarterbacks coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Defensive line coach Derrick LeBlanc was not retained and has since landed as the assistant defensive line coach for the Jaguars, while outside linebackers coach Rob Rodriguez and defensive quality control coach Ronald Booker do not return.
The Cardinals announced five new additions to the staff this week and two promotions.
Cardinals coaching staff promotions
Connor Senger, pass game specialist
Senger, previously the Cardinals’ offensive quality control coach, was promoted to be pass game specialist, replacing Spencer Whipple, who became quarterbacks coach for Jacksonville.
Blaine Gauthier, offensive quality control coach
Gauthier was promoted to offensive quality control coach. He spent the last two seasons on the staff as part of the Bill Bidwill Coaching Fellowship.
Cardinals coaching staff additions
The Cardinals added five staff members.
Justin Frye, offensive line coach
Frye’s addition was previously reported, replacing Adams. He spent the last three seasons as Ohio State’s O-line coach and coached Cardinals left tackle Paris Johnson, the team’s 2023 first-round pick, during his final season at Ohio State. He was a graduate assistant from 2007-2010 for Indiana and Florida, each school for two years. After that, he was the offensive line coach for Temple in 2011-2012, Boston College from 2013-2017 before going to UCLA in 2018 working for head coach Chip Kelly. He was the O-line coach in 2018 and from 2019-2021 was offensive coordinator and offensive line coach, before going to Ohio State.
Winston DeLattiboudere III, defensive line coach
Replacing LeBlanc, his addition was also previously reported. He is 27 years old and spent the last two seasons at the University of Minnesota, where he was defensive line coach and then promoted to assistant head coach in January 2024.
He has a little experience in the NFL. In 2022, as part of the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship, he helped coach the Jacksonville Jaguars’ defensive line during training camp and then, in 2023 under the same fellowship, spent the offseason program with the Green Bay Packers.
He started his coaching career in 2020 as a graduate assistant at Charlotte, working with defensive linemen, and then in 2021 as a graduate assistant at Oregon. In 2022, he was Akron’s defensive line coach before going to Minnesota, where he played collegiately.
Cristian Garcia, linebackers coach
His addition, replacing Siefkes, was also previously reported. He has been in the NFL coaching ranks for four years, most recently last season as assistant defensive backs coach for the Dallas Cowboys under Mike McCarthy and defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer, with whom Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon and defensive coordinator Nick Rallis both previously worked with. He was with the Washington Commanders from 2021-2023 as a defensive assistant and defensive quality control coach. He finished the 2023 season as the interim assistant defensive backs coach.
He played linebacker collegiately and coached three years in the college ranks, 2018-2019 at UNLV and 2020 at Georgia Tech.
Matt Feeney, outside linebackers coach
Feeney replaces Rodriguez. He comes from the Las Vegas Raiders, where he was defensive quality control coach in 2022-2023 before being promoted to interim linebackers coach when Antonio Pierce was made interim head coach. In 2024, he was their assistant defensive backs coach.
Prior to that, he coached eight years in college after playing linebacker collegiately for John Carroll University. As a coach, he spent three years at John Carroll from 2014-2016, two seasons at Tennessee-Chattanooga and three years at Akron. He was Akron’s defensive coordinator from 2019-2021.
Alec Osborne, defensive quality control coach
Osborne replaces Booker. he comes from the college ranks, where he coached since 2017. He began in 2017 as a defensive graduate assistant for Northwestern State. In 2018, he was a defensive graduate assistant and coached defensive ends at McNeese. He was a defensive graduate assistant from 2019-2021 at LSU where he helped with outside linebackers, inside linebackers and nickelbacks. He then spent the next two seasons as defensive quality control coach for Baylor and then, in 2024 was inside linebackers coach at Louisiana-Monroe, where he played tight end collegiately.
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