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TEMPE, Ariz. -- By the end of the day, the Arizona Cardinals will have completed all but one of their head-coaching interviews that have been made public thus far. Monday they will meet with Atlanta Falcons special-teams coordinator Keith Armstrong, according to ESPN’s Vaughn McClure. The Falcons beat the Los Angeles Rams on Saturday, 26-13, in one of the NFC wild-card games to advance to one of Saturday’s NFC divisional games at the Philadelphia Eagles. Armstrong, who played and coached under former Cardinals coach Bruce Arians at Temple in the 1980s, will be the eighth candidate interviewed by Arizona since Wednesday. Cardinals defensive coordinator James Bettcher was the first candidate interviewed on Wednesday, a source told ESPN. Then, according to reports, Arizona traveled to Minnesota on Thursday evening to interview Vikings offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur and to Philadelphia on Friday to meet with two Eagles coaches, quarterbacks coach John DeFilippo and defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz. They went to New England on Saturday to interview Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia and linebackers coach Brian Flores, according to ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter. And on Sunday, they met with Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line coach Mike Munchak, according to reports. Every coach interviewed aside from Armstrong and Bettcher were on a bye week ahead of their teams playing in this weekend’s divisional round. The only coach who the Cardinals have requested permission to interview, according to reports, but have not yet is Carolina Panthers defensive coordinator Steve Wilks.
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