{"id":14043,"date":"2015-01-20T11:31:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14043"},"modified":"2015-01-20T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:31:26","slug":"vic-fangio-joins-bears-leaves-redskins-searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/01\/20\/vic-fangio-joins-bears-leaves-redskins-searching\/","title":{"rendered":"Vic Fangio joins Bears, leaves Redskins searching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/01\/vicfangio-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"vicfangio\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/01\/vicfangio-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/01\/vicfangio-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/01\/vicfangio.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former 49ers defensive coordinator Vic Fangio has joined the Bears in the same role. Fangio had received interest from multiple teams including the Redskins who were said to be making a late push to land him.<\/p>\n<p>Fangio was passed up for the head coaching job for the 49ers when Jim Harbaugh left for Michigan. Given the choice between the Bears and Redskins the 56-year-old went with the Bears. Fangio&#8217;s decision probably came down to two factors, talent and ownership. The Bears have more talent while the Redskins secondary is a complete mess of aged players. Playing for a team owned by Daniel Snyder may also have been a factor after Fangio was on a coaching staff with the 49ers that had problems with their front office. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Vic Fangio has decided to join John Fox&#39;s staff in Chicago. Skins were very interested. Fangio made his decision today<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonLaCanfora\/status\/557566511163129856\">January 20, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>During his four year run by the bay, Fangio&#8217;s defense ranked in the top five including this season where Patrick Willis, Navarro Bowman, Aldon Smith and Tramaine Brock at parts of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former 49ers defensive coordinator Vic Fangio has joined the Bears in the same role. Fangio had received interest from multiple teams including the Redskins who were said to be making a late push to land him. Fangio was passed up for the head coaching job for the 49ers when Jim Harbaugh left for Michigan. Given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[36,426,216,938],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-14043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-bears","tag-front","tag-nfl","tag-vic-fangio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043","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=14043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14046,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043\/revisions\/14046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14043"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}