{"id":8718,"date":"2014-01-27T17:25:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8718"},"modified":"2014-01-27T17:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T22:25:26","slug":"report-cowboys-not-letting-bill-callahan-out-of-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/27\/report-cowboys-not-letting-bill-callahan-out-of-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Cowboys not letting Bill Callahan out of contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/billcallahan.jpg\" alt=\"billcallahan\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8719\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/billcallahan.jpg 640w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/billcallahan-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/billcallahan-50x31.jpg 50w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/billcallahan-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Dallas Cowboys may hire\u00a0Scott Linehan to call plays but that does not mean that offensive coordinator\u00a0Bill Callahan will be let go.<\/p>\n<p>Callahan was hired before the 2013 season as the Cowboys took play calling duties away from head coach Jason Garrett. While he entered the season widely respected in his abilities to call an offense the Cowboys offense seemed confused and out of sync much of the year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Cowboys&amp;src=hash\">#Cowboys<\/a> hire play-caller Scott Linehan today, expect OC Bill Callahan to stay. Why? I\u2019m told Dallas won\u2019t let him out of his contract<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/statuses\/427919912208986112\">January 27, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A similar situation has unfolded on the defensive side of the ball with Rod Marinelli who was not allowed to interview for the defensive coordinator spot in Tampa Bay. Marinelli will return to coach the Cowboys defensive line in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys may hire\u00a0Scott Linehan to call plays but that does not mean that offensive coordinator\u00a0Bill Callahan will be let go. Callahan was hired before the 2013 season as the Cowboys took play calling duties away from head coach Jason Garrett. While he entered the season widely respected in his abilities to call an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[615,35,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-8718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bill-callahan","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718","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=8718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8718"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}