Bruce Arians is joining CBS as an NFL game analyst.
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Eric Ebron Jersey , a two-time winner of the AP's Coach of the Year award, retired as coach of the Arizona Cardinals in January. He will work with play-by-play announcer Greg Gumbel and analyst Trent Green in a three-man booth.
Arians won the top coaching award in 2012 filling in for Indianapolis Colts coach Chuck Pagano, who was recovering from battling leukemia. He also took the honor in 2014 when the Cardinals went 11-5.
"I always hoped that broadcasting would be an option after I retired from coaching as a way to stay involved with this great game," Arians said.
Arians won two Super Bowls as offensive coordinator with the Steelers. He first worked in the NFL in 1989 and also was a head coach at age 30 at Temple, working there from 1983-88.
The Arizona Cardinals have signed free agent offensive lineman Justin Pugh to a five-year contract.
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He said at an introductory news conference Saturday that he was drawn by ”the culture” of the Cardinals.
”The culture that they have, the culture they had going on, the way they run this facility and program, I had no idea
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The 27-year-old lineman has started 36 games at right tackle
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He is the second offensive lineman the Cardinals have added in free agency. The team signed former Cincinnati tackle Andre Smith to a two-year contract on Friday.
Pugh finished last season on injured reserve with a back injury that did not require surgery. But he said he expects no problems in that area.
”I wasn’t concerned with it at all,” he said. ”I went to Dr. (Robert) Watkins, who is probably regarded as one of the top back specialists in the country, and to hear it from him what I have going on
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He said he probably tried to come back from the injury too soon and that landed him on injured reserve.
Pugh went to college with Arizona All-Pro outside linebacker Chandler Jones. He said both vowed to be drafted in the first round when they were at Syracuse and both were.
Pugh acknowledged one concern about moving to the desert.
”Snakes,” he said. ”I was like `Tell me I’m not going to have rattlesnakes on my front yard, and I’m good. I don’t mess with snakes.”’
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