{"id":13496,"date":"2014-12-28T10:38:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T15:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=13496"},"modified":"2014-12-28T10:38:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T15:38:20","slug":"mike-shanahan-could-become-an-option-to-coach-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/12\/28\/mike-shanahan-could-become-an-option-to-coach-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Shanahan could become an option to coach Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMike Shanahan’s run in Washington did not work out.<\/p>\n

Shanahan was paid to sit at home this year after the Redskins front office pushed him out following a disastrous season with Robert Griffin in 2013. The problems for Griffin did not end once Shanahan left but alas that is fodder for another story.<\/p>\n

Now Shanahan could quickly reemerge as the head coach of the Bears working with the only quarterback who has been picked off – and picked off – more than Griffin.<\/p>\n

CBS Sports’ Jason La Canfora reports<\/a> Shanahan “has very strong interest” to work with Jay Cutler again and could become an option for the Chicago Bears. Shanahan is believed to be considering a return to the NFL only if there is a reasonable chance to win the Super Bowl. <\/p>\n

Given the Bears lofty praises earlier this year this would appear to be one situation. It does not hurt that Shanahan – a known control freak – would be moving in with an organization which appears set to completely clean house in the front office.<\/p>\n

The Bears surely would have loved to had gotten a crack at Jim Harbuagh during his exit from San Francisco but it looks like he is heading back to the college game to coach his alma mater in Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Shanahan’s run in Washington did not work out. Shanahan was paid to sit at home this year after the Redskins front office pushed him out following a disastrous season with Robert Griffin in 2013. The problems for Griffin did not end once Shanahan left but alas that is fodder for another story. Now Shanahan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[36,114,531,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-13496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-jay-cutler","10":"tag-mike-shanahan","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13497,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496\/revisions\/13497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13496"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}