{"id":8174,"date":"2014-01-04T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8174"},"modified":"2014-01-04T18:00:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T23:00:49","slug":"titans-fire-munchak-after-refusal-to-shake-up-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/04\/titans-fire-munchak-after-refusal-to-shake-up-coaching-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans fire Munchak after refusal to shake up coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/mikemunchak.jpg\" alt=\"mikemunchak\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/mikemunchak.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/mikemunchak-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/mikemunchak-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Tennessee Titans reportedly were willing to give Mike Munchak a chance to return for the 2014 season with conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Those  conditions apparently meant shake ups to the Titans coaching staff. Munchak apparently balked at those requests and was subsequently fired.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans failed to make the playoffs in Munchak&#8217;s four seasons as he finished with an overall record of 22-26. He becomes the sixth head coach to be fired since the end of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>With questions at quarterback and running back it will be years before the Titans are a factor again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee Titans reportedly were willing to give Mike Munchak a chance to return for the 2014 season with conditions. Those conditions apparently meant shake ups to the Titans coaching staff. Munchak apparently balked at those requests and was subsequently fired. The Titans failed to make the playoffs in Munchak&#8217;s four seasons as he finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-8174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174","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=8174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8174"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}