{"id":8151,"date":"2014-01-03T23:50:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T04:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8151"},"modified":"2014-01-03T23:50:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T04:50:42","slug":"buccaneers-hire-leslie-frazier-as-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/03\/buccaneers-hire-leslie-frazier-as-defensive-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers hire Leslie Frazier as defensive coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6396\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/lesliefrazier.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/lesliefrazier.jpg 576w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/lesliefrazier-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/lesliefrazier-50x28.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Tampa Bay Buccaneers have hired Leslie Frazier as their defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier will be united with longtime friend Lovie Smith after a failed stint as the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings. During Fraier&#8217;s tenure as Vikings head coach he produced a 20-32-1 record.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Filed to ESPN: Leslie Frazier just text me &quot;going to Tampa.&quot; Frazier then told me he will be the next defensive coordinator for the Bucs.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josina Anderson (@JosinaAnderson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JosinaAnderson\/statuses\/419296887523401729\">January 4, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier it was reported that current Dallas Cowboys defensive line coach Rod Marinelli would join Smith&#8217;s coaching staff in Tampa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have hired Leslie Frazier as their defensive coordinator. Frazier will be united with longtime friend Lovie Smith after a failed stint as the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings. During Fraier&#8217;s tenure as Vikings head coach he produced a 20-32-1 record. Filed to ESPN: Leslie Frazier just text me &quot;going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-8151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151","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=8151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8151"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}