{"id":470841,"date":"2023-11-24T16:52:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T20:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=470841"},"modified":"2023-11-24T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T20:52:46","slug":"jack-del-rio-sacked-after-heavy-loss-to-the-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jack-del-rio-sacked-after-heavy-loss-to-the-cowboys\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Del Rio sacked after heavy loss to the Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Commanders have sacked their defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio following the disappointing 45-10 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A shakeup in Washington:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Commanders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Commanders<\/a> defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio has been fired following another crushing loss, sources say, this time to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cowboys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Cowboys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Rivera presumably will call the D now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dz991tj4P2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dz991tj4P2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1728074903235019107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Coach Ron Rivera has made the decision to dismiss the 60-year-old after yet another embarrassing result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was probably the thing that I felt was necessary to do to hopefully get out of this rut and get to a point where we can play to our abilities,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate, the situation and circumstances. But I did feel that a change was something that we needed to do going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Washington find themselves in a miserable run of form with 8 losses in their last 10 games. They have allowed 290 or more yards in 11 of 12 games this season and 30 or more points seven times. as their defense ranks 29th among 32 teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Commanders have sacked their defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio following the disappointing 45-10 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":470842,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16853],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[22162,18189],"acf":{"announce":"The Washington team has had enough and has dismissed its defensive coordinator","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\/470841"}],"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=470841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470843,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470841\/revisions\/470843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470841"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=470841"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=470841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}