A little change up in the coaching staff with Matt Feeney coming aboard.
The Arizona Cardinals announced their new position coaches for the 2025 NFL season, and one change that was made that we had not heard about until the announcement yesterday was the change at outside linebacker coach.
The team had Rob Rodriguez as their outside linebacker coach, and it appears they decided not to bring him back.
Instead, the team has gone to Matt Feeney.
A little more on Feeney:
Feeney spent the past three seasons with the Las Vegas Raiders, including in 2024 as the team’s assistant defensive backs coach. In 2023, Feeney served as the Raiders interim linebackers coach following the promotion of Antonio Pierce to head coach. He began his NFL coaching career in 2022 with the Raiders as a defensive quality control coach after coaching at the college level for eight years. The 33-year old Feeney played collegiately as a linebacker at John Carroll University (2010-13) and coached at his alma mater for three seasons (2014-16). He then spent two seasons (2017-18) at University of Tennessee-Chattanooga before working at Akron from 2019-21 as the Zips defensive coordinator.
Feeney has been making the move up the ranks in college and then in the pros.
Let’s see how he does in his newest role.