{"id":8276,"date":"2014-01-08T13:03:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T18:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2014-01-08T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T18:03:50","slug":"wade-phillips-pokes-fun-at-texans-for-firing-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/08\/wade-phillips-pokes-fun-at-texans-for-firing-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Wade Phillips pokes fun at Texans for firing him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/wadephillips.jpg\" alt=\"wadephillips\" width=\"609\" height=\"457\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/wadephillips.jpg 609w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/wadephillips-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/wadephillips-50x37.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><br \/>\nWade Phillips was promoted to the role of head coach in Houston after the firing of Gary Kubiak. After the season was over the Texans let Phillips go from his role of defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday Phillips thanked everyone who had followed him on twitter and noted that he had cancelled his suite in Reliant Stadium.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>They can take away your job but they can not take away your twitter friends-thanks for all the support <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23TFF&amp;src=hash\">#TFF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wade Phillips (@sonofbum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sonofbum\/statuses\/420636424828772352\">January 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Phillips went on to say he liked being a defensive coordinator but would never take on the role of interim head coach again.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Odd fact-the only 3 D C jobs that I was fired from- I was interim H C &amp; interviewed for that team&#39;s H C job. Not taking interim again!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wade Phillips (@sonofbum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sonofbum\/statuses\/420958987614289920\">January 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course the Texans apparently notified Phillips that they never charged him the final 25,000 for his suite so perhaps they had the last laugh.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Shouldn&#39;t have said anything -Texans called &amp; said they accidentally did not charge me last 25K for my suite. Dang-wasn&#39;t funny as I thought<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wade Phillips (@sonofbum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sonofbum\/statuses\/420968803615264768\">January 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Phillips is currently looking for work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wade Phillips was promoted to the role of head coach in Houston after the firing of Gary Kubiak. After the season was over the Texans let Phillips go from his role of defensive coordinator. On Tuesday Phillips thanked everyone who had followed him on twitter and noted that he had cancelled his suite in Reliant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-8276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276","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=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}