Mike LaFleur’s staff rumors and hiring updates….

[Solar7]

Brit you are optimistic about this new regime and keeping rallis which is great and often lacking on this board.

I think the reason a lot of us are negative on keeping rallis and biggest questions on him going forward are:

-the defense flat out gave up on him last year with blow out after blow out- how is rallis going to change that heading into 2026?

-the scheme of 2025 was clearly flawed, are we supposed to take some hopium and believe that rallis was being held back by JG? A good DC will adapt- but we are taking a serious leap of faith that rallis can do it

-In 3 years- which rookie has rallis developed that is ascending? Drob- average play at best but good arguments he was a bust, Melton- descending by the end of 2025, Johnson- got worse as the year continued. The list could go on - but we have serious 1st-3rd round capital draft picks who are not only not performing but seem to be getting worse. I was hopeful that we were going to bring in a new face and try to salvage this talent because I’m negative on rallis’s ability to do so.

-Lack of assistant coordinators around him- who is rallis going to hire around him now that all his assistants have left? I have my doubts that he has enough experience in the league to have developed the connections to build a competent staff- especially this late in the game.

I know I’m being a hater - but give me your thoughts on the above and what you are seeing that gives you optimism on these points.

Obviously I'm not BritCard, but having a couple of experienced offensive minds in-house to give Rallis someone to bounce defensive concepts off of might help him develop new ideas. Petzing probably wasn't giving him cutting-edge offensive concepts, nor did he have the NFL experience to go with the whole "iron sharpens iron" approach. Hackett and MLF can potentially give him new ideas to defend a variety of offensive concepts they're familiar with.

Just trying to be positive with it.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

I disagree that the defense quit on him. We just simply ran out of enough quality players that could make a difference. Nothing good is happening when you have YOUNG, 3rd stringers forced to play against potent offenses like the Rams, Seahawks, Niners, Bengals, etc. It’s not like we were playing the Jets or Raiders offenses down the stretch last year.

Had all our starting dlinemen, edges and safeties plus Will Johnson and other starting ILB. We were down a lb and corner and nickle corner.

 

[JerkFace]

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[JerkFace]

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[GeorgiaCard88]

I disagree that the defense quit on him. We just simply ran out of enough quality players that could make a difference. Nothing good is happening when you have YOUNG, 3rd stringers forced to play against potent offenses like the Rams, Seahawks, Niners, Bengals, etc. It’s not like we were playing the Jets or Raiders offenses down the stretch last year.

And yet the niners played competitive with a 3rd string roster the entire year. Cardinals propaganda wants you to believe that was the problem but that defense was healthy enough to not get blown out game after game. Opponents were pulling their starters against us for Christ sake. Sure we had injuries on the defense - but so does everyone and it’s not a good excuse for the uncompetitive performances we saw at the end of the year

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

How many coaches have we kept?

 

[BullheadCardFan]

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How many coaches have we kept?

Too many

 

[BullheadCardFan]

Sources: Raiders hire Seahawks' Andrew Janocko as OC

Seahawks QB coach Andrew Janocko has been hired as offensive coordinator for the Raiders, where he'll reunite with coach Klint Kubiak, sources told ESPN.

www.espn.com

 

[BullheadCardFan]

Sources: Raiders hire Seahawks' Andrew Janocko as OC

Seahawks QB coach Andrew Janocko has been hired as offensive coordinator for the Raiders, where he'll reunite with coach Klint Kubiak, sources told ESPN.

www.espn.com

 

[Cheesebeef]

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Can someone tell me how this D was so bad with so many “rising stars” coaching them and after so many resources being poured into it the last two years (Campbell, Sweat, Robinson, Johnson, Melton).

 

[Cheesebeef]

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This team is embarrassing, even more so than usual.

 

[TruColor]

Man...won't it be amazing next offseason when we look back at this thread and laugh and laugh at how wrong we were about everything?

Naw - who am I kidding. It really is gonna suck next season.

 

[PACardsFan]

Had all our starting dlinemen, edges and safeties plus Will Johnson and other starting ILB. We were down a lb and corner and nickle corner.

Stop lol. Do I need to send you our injury reports week to week? You couldn’t be more wrong.

 

[PACardsFan]

And yet the niners played competitive with a 3rd string roster the entire year. Cardinals propaganda wants you to believe that was the problem but that defense was healthy enough to not get blown out game after game. Opponents were pulling their starters against us for Christ sake. Sure we had injuries on the defense - but so does everyone and it’s not a good excuse for the uncompetitive performances we saw at the end of the year

Did you not read what I wrote????????? The Niners had enough talent and explosiveness on the offensive side of the ball to overcome weaknesses on their D. The Cardinals were equally banged up on both sides of the ball. Hell, we were playing with 5th stringers in the RB room. Silly to compare the Niners injuries to the Cardinals. We had FAR more.

 

[HairZach]

And yet the niners played competitive with a 3rd string roster the entire year. Cardinals propaganda wants you to believe that was the problem but that defense was healthy enough to not get blown out game after game. Opponents were pulling their starters against us for Christ sake. Sure we had injuries on the defense - but so does everyone and it’s not a good excuse for the uncompetitive performances we saw at the end of the year

The niners had 5 season ending injuries, they were basically at full strength the last 9 weeks of the season.

The Cardinals had 26 season ending injuries. You talk about teams pulling starters against us, 49% of our team was players who weren't good enough to be on a roster week 1. We were down to CB6 as CB1 by week 4, by week 10 the levy broke.

If you wasted your time watching those last few games and are still mad at how bad those practice squad players sucked I get it, but I dont know how you expected any other outcome. Half of our squad was players who only play during preseason before roster cuts. There were so many players I had never even heard of starting for us, not to mention the utter shambles our special teams were in.

When the 49ers had 16 season ending injuries in 2024 they finished last in the division, with multiple three score loses, including a game where Petzing put up 47 on their defense.

 

[kerouac9]

Stop lol. Do I need to send you our injury reports week to week? You couldn’t be more wrong.

The defense was relatively healthy all year. The biggest injury was to Mack Wilson, everyone else was healthy and/or replacement level.

The difference in staters between weeks 1 and 18 were Zaven Collins replacing Baron Browning (coaching/matchup — Browning played more snaps than Collins that day),
Cody Simon replacing Mack Wilson, and corners Max Melson and Garrett Williams replaced by Will Johnson and Denzel Burke.

Hardly a travesty.

 

[Delmar M Lewis]

I find it kinda interesting that Miami lost the championship game and a bunch of coaches while Indiana won and keeps most if not all of theirs is it a sign that the U had the better staff?

 

[PACardsFan]

The defense was relatively healthy all year. The biggest injury was to Mack Wilson, everyone else was healthy and/or replacement level.

The difference in staters between weeks 1 and 18 were Zaven Collins replacing Baron Browning (coaching/matchup — Browning played more snaps than Collins that day),
Cody Simon replacing Mack Wilson, and corners Max Melson and Garrett Williams replaced by Will Johnson and Denzel Burke.

Hardly a travesty.

Games missed by just the defense

Justin Jones 17
LJ Collier 13
B Nichols 13
W Nolen 11
D Robinson 2
M Wilson 9
B Browning 2
Ojulari 9
C Simon 1
Murphy Bunting 17
Starling Thomas 17
J Blount 16
G Williams 7
Melton 7
W Johnson 5
Rabbit 5
J Thompson 2
K Clark 2
Crawford 2
Budda 1
Hall 1

By FAR, the most in the NFL.

 

[kerouac9]

Games missed by just the defense

Justin Jones 17
LJ Collier 13
B Nichols 13
W Nolen 11
D Robinson 2
M Wilson 9
B Browning 2
Ojulari 9
C Simon 1
Murphy Bunting 17
Starling Thomas 17
J Blount 16
G Williams 7
Melton 7
W Johnson 5
Rabbit 5
J Thompson 2
K Clark 2
Crawford 2
Budda 1
Hall 1

By FAR, the most in the NFL.

Bro no one cares if Joey Blount missed 16 games.

 

[Cardinal88]

The whole coaching selection process has me rethinking the decisions being made. First, I'm okay with MFL as our HC. Was he one of the top choices - no. But he seems well respected and may have a bright future. Having someone in his corner as the OC is going to be okay as well. I do not agree with the OL coach because we went from a decent OL in 2024 to a terrible OL in 2025. Maybe it's the coaching change, or injuries or whatever but it didn't sit well with me. I'm hoping the continuity factor helps next year with an influx of additional talent.

Now onto the DC.... At first I was pissed that they would bring him back after the whipping we took in the second half of the season. So I went back through the schedule. We barely won the first two games then barely lost the next two games against playoff caliber teams. Then we get the debacle that occurred with Tennessee. For three years, the HC shows no emotion and then he breaks due one event. Did the HC start to lose the players by showing his anger in public? Well, we barely lose the next two games to a hot Colts team and a playoff Packer team. All five of these loses to this point showed we could not make the stop when we needed to. Is that Rallis or is it the 4 man rush and prevent defense by JG? I'm leaning toward JG because Rallis showed he can man a decent defense the year before with less talent.

Let's cross our fingers it works out!

 

[GeorgiaCard88]

The defense was relatively healthy all year. The biggest injury was to Mack Wilson, everyone else was healthy and/or replacement level.

The difference in staters between weeks 1 and 18 were Zaven Collins replacing Baron Browning (coaching/matchup — Browning played more snaps than Collins that day),
Cody Simon replacing Mack Wilson, and corners Max Melson and Garrett Williams replaced by Will Johnson and Denzel Burke.

Hardly a travesty.

Exactly. They are talking about starting CB 5&6 at the end of the season - who was their CB1? Sean Murphy bunting/ starling Thomas??? Give me a break - those guys were back up level at best. Sure we lost Nolen and Wilson - but this unit should not completely break depending a rookie and a non premium position linebacker.

 

[some dumb guy]

Bro no one cares if Joey Blount missed 16 games.

I'm thinking Joey might have cared a little
Maybe his mom and dad
Siblings, cousins, some neighbors
the guy at the local "Long John Silvers" LOL

 

[Cheesebeef]

Did you not read what I wrote????????? The Niners had enough talent and explosiveness on the offensive side of the ball to overcome weaknesses on their D. The Cardinals were equally banged up on both sides of the ball. Hell, we were playing with 5th stringers in the RB room. Silly to compare the Niners injuries to the Cardinals. We had FAR more.

This is clueless, singing the praises of the incredible Niners offenses unless you’re also just willfully ignoring that the Niners were WITHOUT THEIR STARTING QB FOR 8 GAMES, PRO-BOWL TE FOR 6 AND THEIR NUMBER 1 WR FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR.

And had injuries up and down the O-line all season as well.

Yeah… they had massive injuries on BOTH sides of the ball to SUPERSTARS and won 12 games. We had injuries to journeyman that everyone, including YOU expected to be passed on the depth chart by guys like Sweat, Calais, Robinson, Johnson and Melton, were passed by those guys and WE STILL STUNK.

You’re excuses are a joke… just like this team.

 

[Dayman]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47921926/source-new-cardinals-coach-lafleur-retain-rallis-dc

The Cardinals finished the season ranked 27th in total yards allowed per game, 25th in rushing yards allowed per game and 24th in passing yards allowed per game. They were ranked 22nd in interception rate and 28th in sacks per pass attempt while giving up the most first downs per game. Arizona also gave up the fourth-most points per game last season in the NFL and allowed 40 or more points four times, 37 twice and 31 once.

 

[oaken1]

I find it kinda interesting that Miami lost the championship game and a bunch of coaches while Indiana won and keeps most if not all of theirs is it a sign that the U had the better staff?

Maybe loyalty??
Indiana just signed their entire staff to extensions with big pay raises in December