{"id":729,"date":"2012-11-05T20:20:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T01:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=729"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:29:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T14:29:08","slug":"romeo-crennel-fires-himself-as-defenseive-coordinator-of-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/11\/05\/romeo-crennel-fires-himself-as-defenseive-coordinator-of-chiefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Romeo Crennel fires himself as defensive coordinator of Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Romeo+Crennel+Kansas+City+Chiefs+v+San+Diego+LjBkmQ-raTSl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"516\" \/>The Kansas City Chiefs are 1-7 this season and are a mess on nearly all phases of football. With Crennel knowing the flaws of the defense he did what any head coach\/defensive coordinator would do.<\/p>\n<p>He fired himself as the defensive coordinator for a unit who had allowed 30 points per game, 29th in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Gibbs will take over as the team&#8217;s defensive coordinator. The Chiefs also made a few other moves to try and improve the defense.<\/p>\n<p>Cornerback Stanford Routt was waived by the team. He had signed a three-year $18 million deal with the Chiefs after Brandon Carr departed for Dallas. Javier Arenas will take Routts position in the starting lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs also signed defensive tackle Shaun Smith.\u00a0 Smith has not played since being waived by the Tennessee Titans in August. A nine year player out of South Carolina, Smith will act as depth for the Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs next game is at Pittsburgh on Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs are 1-7 this season and are a mess on nearly all phases of football. With Crennel knowing the flaws of the defense he did what any head coach\/defensive coordinator would do. He fired himself as the defensive coordinator for a unit who had allowed 30 points per game, 29th in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[104,113],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-romeo-crennel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}