{"id":445182,"date":"2026-02-02T19:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445182\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:47:10","slug":"matt-lafleur-im-confident-jonathan-gannon-will-be-an-outstanding-addition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445182\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt LaFleur: I&#8217;m confident Jonathan Gannon will be an outstanding addition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Packers have made it official with Jonathan Gannon, naming the former Cardinals head coach their defensive coordinator on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to add Jonathan Gannon to our coaching staff. He possesses tremendous experience <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.packers.com\/news\/packers-name-jonathan-gannon-defensive-coordinator-feb-2-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">as an NFL coordinator and head coach<\/a>,\u201d head coach Matt LaFleur said in a statement released by the team. \u201cI am confident that he will be an outstanding addition to our organization, as well as a strong leader of our defense. We welcome Jonathan, his wife, Gina, and their three children, Rocco, Lola, and Angelo, to the Packers and the Green Bay community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gannon, 43, joins the Packers after three seasons with the Cardinals. Arizona went 15-36 in Gannon\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, Gannon was the Eagles\u2019 defensive coordinator from 2021-2022. He had served as the Colts\u2019 defensive backs coach from 2018-2020.<\/p>\n<p>Gannon replaces Jeff Hafley, who was hired as Dolphins head coach last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Packers have made it official with Jonathan Gannon, naming the former Cardinals head coach their defensive coordinator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-445182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}