{"id":15377,"date":"2016-01-09T12:04:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T17:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=15377"},"modified":"2016-01-09T12:04:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T17:04:21","slug":"lions-could-still-fire-jim-caldwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2016\/01\/09\/lions-could-still-fire-jim-caldwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions could still fire Jim Caldwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2016\/01\/img_3458.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nThe head coaching job of the Lions may not belong to Jim Caldwell for long according to NFL Networks Ian Rapoport.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Caldwell is said to have the support of ownership, it remains possible that new general manager Bob Quinn could make the decision to hire a coach he has ties to. Josh McDaniels and Matt Patricia would be two names to watch should Quinn make a move. The decision is believed to be up to him to make.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell&#8217;s Lions got off to a poor start this season but in the second half the team played significantly better &#8211; albeit with an easier schedule. If Caldwell stays so too could offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter and degensive coordinator &nbsp;Teryl Austin &#8211; who is a candidate for several head coach openings across the league. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head coaching job of the Lions may not belong to Jim Caldwell for long according to NFL Networks Ian Rapoport.&nbsp; While Caldwell is said to have the support of ownership, it remains possible that new general manager Bob Quinn could make the decision to hire a coach he has ties to. Josh McDaniels and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15377","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\/15377","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=15377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15378,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377\/revisions\/15378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15377"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}