{"id":8229,"date":"2014-01-06T13:47:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T18:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8229"},"modified":"2014-01-06T13:47:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T18:47:32","slug":"dolphins-fire-oc-mike-sherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/06\/dolphins-fire-oc-mike-sherman\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins fire OC Mike Sherman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/mikesherman.jpg\" alt=\"mikesherman\" width=\"650\" height=\"440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/mikesherman.jpg 650w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/mikesherman-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/mikesherman-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><br \/>\nMike Sherman has been fired as the offensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>Sherman took over the offensive reigns for the Dolphins in 2012 after being fired from Texas A&#038;M following the 2011 season.<\/p>\n<p>That Sherman coached Ryan Tannehill at Texas A&#038;M played a large factor in the teams decision to spend a first round pick on the quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to thank Mike for his contributions to the Miami Dolphins,&#8221; coach Joe Philbin said. &#8220;Mike has been a mentor to me throughout my coaching career, dating back to 1979. He is a man of great integrity, dedicated to his family, his team, his players and his profession. On behalf of the entire Miami Dolphins organization I want to wish Mike and his family the very best in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sherman was widely expected to be fired after the Dolphins finished 8-8 and failed to miss the playoffs. That the Dolphins scored just seven points in Week 16 and 17 contests against Buffalo and New York sealed his fate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Sherman has been fired as the offensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins. Sherman took over the offensive reigns for the Dolphins in 2012 after being fired from Texas A&#038;M following the 2011 season. That Sherman coached Ryan Tannehill at Texas A&#038;M played a large factor in the teams decision to spend a first round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[100,578,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-8229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-mike-sherman","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229","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=8229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}