{"id":13554,"date":"2014-12-29T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T16:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=13554"},"modified":"2014-12-29T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T16:22:40","slug":"mike-smith-fired-by-falcons-on-black-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/12\/29\/mike-smith-fired-by-falcons-on-black-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Smith fired by Falcons on Black Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/mikesmith.jpg\" alt=\"mikesmith\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13555\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/mikesmith.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/mikesmith-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nMike Smith was fired by the Atlanta Falcons on Monday following seven seasons as the teams head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was 66-46 during his tenure with the Falcons earning 2008 NFL Coach of the Year honors but those works never translated to the playoffs as the Falcons were just 1-4 there.<\/p>\n<p>In recent seasons the Falcons had struggled to a 10-22 mark highlighted by a blowout loss on Sunday to the Carolina Panthers that prevented them from going to the playoffs this season.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, a defensive minded coach, sat on the sidelines as his defense was the worst in the NFL this season and 27th a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons, Bears, Jets, 49ers have all made the decision to look for new head coaches this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Smith was fired by the Atlanta Falcons on Monday following seven seasons as the teams head coach. Smith was 66-46 during his tenure with the Falcons earning 2008 NFL Coach of the Year honors but those works never translated to the playoffs as the Falcons were just 1-4 there. In recent seasons the Falcons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-13554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13554","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=13554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13556,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13554\/revisions\/13556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13554"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}