{"id":416431,"date":"2023-02-20T09:40:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=416431"},"modified":"2023-03-01T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T15:00:48","slug":"raiders-fire-defensive-line-coach-okam","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/raiders-fire-defensive-line-coach-okam\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders fire defensive line coach Okam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/las-vegas-raiders\/\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> parted ways with Defensive Line coach Frank Okam, whose tenure in Sin City was full of criticism, the NFL team announced.<\/p>\n<p>Okam was brought in by Defensive Coordinator Patrick Graham in 2022, but he failed to make an impact with the Raiders recording just 21.5 sacks throughout the whole season.<\/p>\n<p>He had served as the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/carolina-panthers\/\">Carolina Panthers<\/a>\u2019 Assistant Defensive Line Coach in 2020 and then Defensive Line Coach in 2021, not to mention plenty of experience under Matt Rhule at Baylor University.<\/p>\n<p>Okam also spent six years in the league, with tenures with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/houston-texans\/\">Houston Texans<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/seattle-seahawks\/\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/new-york-giants\/\">New York Giants<\/a> before retiring in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Josh McDaniels and the Raiders will continue to find a suitable replacement, with Ede Rushers Coach Matt Edwards and Defensive Assistant Rob Ryan looking like potential candidates to take over that spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Las Vegas Raiders parted ways with Defensive Line coach Frank Okam, whose tenure in Sin City was full of criticism, the NFL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":416432,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17149,17162,16755],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He was criticized after failing to make an impact with the Raiders, recording just 21.5 sacks throughout the whole season","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\/416431"}],"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=416431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/416431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416431"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=416431"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=416431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}