Report: Bruce Arians will be the Cardinals’ next head coach

Bruce Arians appears to be close to becoming the next head coach of the Arizona Cardinals.
Arians was offered the Cardinals’ job and will accept, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports. The Cardinals met with Arians today and Arians said he got a good feeling from the meeting, and now both sides look like they want to get the deal done.
After being named the offensive coordinator of the Colts last offseason, Arians spent most of the season as the interim head coach while Chuck Pagano was out being treated for leukemia. Arians did an excellent job, leading the Colts from a 2-14 record to the playoffs, and he may receive the NFL’s coach of the year award.
Now Arians will take over as head coach of another team — one that can use his offensive acumen, but one which lacks a quarterback as
talented as Andrew Luck.

Source: PFT.com
Author: Michael David Smith
Photo: Matt Kryger, USA TODAY Sports

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Arians out of hospital, on track to interview with Bears

Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians has been hospitalized twice in the past week with an apparent inner-ear infection, once in Baltimore (he missed Sunday’s playoff game) and again in Indianapolis after returning with the team.
According to Mike Chappell of the Indianapolis Star, Arians is now out of the hospital again and gearing up for a Sunday interview with the Bears to become the successor to Lovie Smith.
“I’m home and I’m doing fine,” Arians said, via Chappell.  “I’m ready to roll.”
In addition to the interview with the Bears, the Eagles, Browns, and Chargers also are interested.
“I have to listen,” Arians told Chappell.  “I never thought this would happen.  I have a great job, so it’s going to have to be a perfect fit for me to leave. . . .  It would be hard to leave . . . [but] you always want to win one of these Super Bowls on your own.”
Regardless of what happens, it’s been an amazing year for Arians.  The Steelers let him go after the 2011 season, claiming he had retired.  But Arians then resurfaced in Indy, and he spent three months as the interim head coach after Chuck Pagano was diagnosed with leukemia.
We should all have such uneventful retirements.

Source: PFT.com
Author: Mike Florio
Photo: Matt Kryger, USA TODAY Sports