{"id":8066,"date":"2013-12-31T22:28:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T03:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2013-12-31T22:28:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T03:28:55","slug":"texans-tab-bill-obrien-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/31\/texans-tab-bill-obrien-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans tab Bill O&#8217;Brien as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7947\" alt=\"billobrien\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/billobrien.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/billobrien.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/billobrien-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/billobrien-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Houston Texans will enter 2014 with a new head coach. Bill O&#8217;Brien has <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/10224953\/houston-texans-hire-bill-obrien-penn-state-nittany-lions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">been hired<\/a> to be the new head coach of the Texans following a two year tenure at Penn State.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Despite a bowl ban and transferred rules which allowed\u00a0<\/span>recruits<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0to leave in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, O&#8217;Brien led the Nittany\u00a0Lions went 15-9 record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Texans fired Gary Kubiak Dec. 6 and had allowed Wade Phillips to coach with the interim title to finish out the season. The Texans finished the year 2-14 with 14 straight losses to claim the first overall 2014 draft pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Texans will enter 2014 with a new head coach. Bill O&#8217;Brien has been hired to be the new head coach of the Texans following a two year tenure at Penn State. Despite a bowl ban and transferred rules which allowed\u00a0recruits\u00a0to leave in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, O&#8217;Brien led the Nittany\u00a0Lions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[564,426,60,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-8066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-bill-obrien","tag-front","tag-houston-texans","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066","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=8066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}