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USA Today
14-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Cardinals announce coaching fellowship addition to staff
A day after the Arizona Cardinals announced the changes on their coaching staff, they announced another addition. They have added a coach via the team's Bill Bidwill Coaching Fellowship program, which is designed to increase diversity and create additional opportunities for coaching experience at the highest level. This year's fellow is DJ Gillins. He was with the Cardinals as a coach in training camp last year under the league's Bill Walsh Coaching Fellowship. He previously coached running backs and wide receivers at the collegiate level. He began as a graduate assistant with three different schools — Utah State in 2019, Arkansas in 2019-2020 and Utah in 2021. He then coached receivers at Long Island University for two years and then running backs at Stony Brook last year. He played quarterback and receiver in college, so between his playing days and his previous coaching work, he likely will work on the offensive side of the ball. This fellowship has been successful. The last two to be part of it are still on the team and were recently promoted. Connor Senger was made the team's new pass gam specialist, replacing the departed Spencer Whipple, while Blaine Gauthier became offensive quality control coach. Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire's Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify, YouTube or Apple podcasts.
USA Today
13-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Cardinals announce coaching additions, promotions
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. Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire's Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify, YouTube or Apple podcasts.
NBC Sports
12-02-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Cardinals announce the hiring of five assistant coaches
The Cardinals announced the hiring of five assistant coaches and the promotions of two others. The new coaches are: Offensive line: Justin Frye Defensive line: Winston DeLattiboudere III Linebackers: Cristian Garcia Outside linebackers Matt Feeney Defensive quality control: Alec Osborne The team promoted Connor Senger to pass game specialist and Blaine Gautier to offensive quality control. Frye spent the past three seasons (2022-24) as the offensive line coach at Ohio State. DeLattiboudere coached the defensive line the past two years (2023-24) at his alma mater, the University of Minnesota, and added the title of assistant head coach in 2024. Garcia arrives in Arizona after spending last season with Cowboys as an assistant defensive backs/quality control coach. Feeney spent the past three seasons with the Raiders, including in 2024 as the team's assistant defensive backs coach. Osborne was the inside linebackers coach at his alma mater, the University of Louisiana-Monroe, last season. He previously worked as a defensive quality control coach at Baylor (2022-23) after coaching for three seasons (2019-21) as a defensive graduate assistant at LSU. Senger was the Cardinals' assistant quarterbacks coach in 2024 after working as an offensive quality control coach in 2023. Gautier spent the past two seasons (2023-24) with the Cardinals as a participant in the team's Bill Bidwill Coaching Fellowship.
