{"id":13234,"date":"2014-12-14T11:26:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T16:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=13234"},"modified":"2014-12-14T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T16:26:40","slug":"raiders-could-fire-gm-reggie-mckenzie-at-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/12\/14\/raiders-could-fire-gm-reggie-mckenzie-at-end-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders could fire GM Reggie McKenzie at end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/reggiemckenzie-1024x743.jpg\" alt=\"NFL: Oakland Raiders-Reggie McKenzie Press Conference\" width=\"620\" height=\"449\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/reggiemckenzie-1024x743.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/reggiemckenzie-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/reggiemckenzie.jpg 1378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Raiders could fire general manager Reggie McKenzie at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter hears from several sources that Raiders owner Mark Davis is ready to make changes including at McKenzie&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n<p>Given the Raiders lack of talent it is hard to argue that McKenzie should keep his job. The team continues to have turnover at head coach with Dennis Allen getting canned earlier this season. Recent talk has the Raiders making a run at current 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh. If that is true McKenzie is almost certain to be a goner as the former Stanford coach is going to want control over the roster and input on who he will report to.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Oakland preparing for sweeping changes that involve its GM Reggie McKenzie, according to league sources. Mark Davis getting ready to spend.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/544153352599519232\">December 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Raiders were 8-24 in McKenzie&#8217;s first two seasons in charge and are just 2-11 this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raiders could fire general manager Reggie McKenzie at the end of the season. ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter hears from several sources that Raiders owner Mark Davis is ready to make changes including at McKenzie&#8217;s position. Given the Raiders lack of talent it is hard to argue that McKenzie should keep his job. The team continues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,216,189,898],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-13234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-nfl","tag-oakland-raiders","tag-reggie-mckenzie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13237,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13234\/revisions\/13237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13234"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}