{"id":415745,"date":"2023-02-16T12:58:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T17:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415745"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:52:08","slug":"bert-watts-joins-panthers-as-their-new-safeties-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bert-watts-joins-panthers-as-their-new-safeties-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Bert Watts joins Panthers as their new Safeties coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/carolina-panthers\/\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> have hired Bert Watts as their new Safeties coach, according to NFL Network\u2019s Ian Rapoport.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Panthers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Panthers<\/a> will hire Bert Watts as their safeties coach, source said. He coached <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Broncos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Broncos<\/a> OLBs last season and is highly thought of within coaching circles as a future defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1626213536522444801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is the third defensive assistant that new Panthers\u2019 Defensive Coordinator Ejiro Evero has stolen from his former workplace, joining the likes of linebackers coach Peter Hansen and defensive assistant Dom Capers.<\/p>\n<p>Watts, who is uncle of Panther\u2019s TE <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/tommy-tremble\/\">Tommy Tremble<\/a>, had already worked for the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/denver-broncos\/\">Denver Broncos<\/a> nearly a decade ago and was serving as outside linebackers coach and special team coordinator at Auburn Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>He has vast experience at the collegiate level, also working at the University of Memphis, Fresno State University, and the University of California-Davis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Panthers have hired Bert Watts as their new Safeties coach, according to NFL Network\u2019s Ian Rapoport. The #Panthers will hire Bert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415746,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17149,16777],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He had already worked for the Denver Broncos and has vast experience at the collegiate level","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415745"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415745"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}