Cardinals Prepare For Arians Retirement: Report

With two games left in the season, the Arizona Cardinals are said to be already seriously looking toward the future. A report Sunday said that Cards' head coach Bruce Arians is getting ready to retire at the end of the season.

Arians, who has coached the team for four-plus seasons, is 65-years-old and has been coaching for more than 40 years.

The report, by CBS Sports, says that while Arians has denied it in the past, he is expected to put the Cardinals in the pool with around 10 other teams looking for new head coaches for next season.

The Cardinals and Arians have not commented on the report.

The team is 6-8 sp far this year. Arians, who has a 47-30-1 record as Cardinals head coach, needs two more wins to tie the record for most wins by a head coach of them team. They have two more games left this season.

Arians was awarded AP Coach of the Year twice – once with the Cardinals when he guided them to the NFL championship game – and once with the Indianapolis Colts, whom he led before moving to Arizona.

He also has a Super Bowl ring from when, as offensive coordinator of the Pittsburgh Steelers, he helped lead them to victory in Super Bowl 43 in 2009.

Arians was also the head coach at Temple University from 1983-1988.

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