{"id":467948,"date":"2023-11-01T10:29:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=467948"},"modified":"2023-11-01T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:29:47","slug":"chicago-fires-rb-coach-over-workplace-behavior","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chicago-fires-rb-coach-over-workplace-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago fires RB coach over workplace behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Bears RBs boss David Walker was fired yesterday because of his behavior at work.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL franchise\u2019s human resources department made the decision, which the organization is yet to confirm officially.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEWS: The Bears have fired RBs coach David Walker, multiple league sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s HR department was involved in the decision.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the second time a coach has left the staff this season under such circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>More \u2935\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5jjxkgROEa\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/5jjxkgROEa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1719705419298336792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The coach had previously been reprimanded by Chicago\u2019s HR for his behavior, and 2<sup>nd<\/sup> such episode led to his dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>David (53) is the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> assistant coach in the team to leave the staff this campaign. Ex-defensive coordinator Alan Williams resigned at the end of September, sharing that the reason for his decision was to take care of himself and his family.<\/p>\n<p>The organization\u2019s HR department also was involved in the decision that led to Williams&#8217; resignation, but that has nothing to do with the dismissal of Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Bears manager Matt Eberflus will speak with the media today, and it is expected that he will confirm the news about his assistant\u2019s firing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Bears RBs boss David Walker was fired yesterday because of his behavior at work. The NFL franchise\u2019s human resources department made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":467949,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17002,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18136,21958,17873],"acf":{"announce":"Bears dismissed running backs manager over behavior issues.","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\/467948"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467952,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467948\/revisions\/467952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467948"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=467948"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=467948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}