{"id":475303,"date":"2024-01-08T20:12:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T00:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=475303"},"modified":"2024-01-08T20:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T00:12:55","slug":"rivera-dismissed-ex-gms-to-lead-commanders-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rivera-dismissed-ex-gms-to-lead-commanders-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivera dismissed, ex-GMs to lead Commanders overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a sweeping overhaul of the organization\u2019s football leadership that started with the firing of manager Ron Rivera today, the franchise owner Josh Harris has appointed 2 prominent executives \u2013 ex-Warriors GM Bob Myers and ex-Vikings general manager Rick Spielman &#8212; to help his ownership group with the hiring of new head of football operations and manager, the team announced today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Commanders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Commanders<\/a> are moving on from coach Ron Rivera after four seasons, as owner Josh Harris informed him of his fate just now. Washington heads in a new direction.<\/p>\n<p>The expected move now official. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q7gIPHO3ZT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/q7gIPHO3ZT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1744348528917274799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rivera, who became Washington&#8217;s boss in 2020, made the final decision in all football operations and appointed the franchise\u2019s front office. But after securing the NFC East in his debut campaign with a negative record, the team has never been able to finish with a winning record.<\/p>\n<p>Commanders ended the seasons at 4-13 and last in the NFC East and went 26-40-1 in his 4 years as the head coach of the team.<\/p>\n<p>Washington owner thanked Ron for his time in the organization and called him a &#8220;good man&#8221; and &#8220;inspiring leader&#8221; but added that the reason for his dismissal was the bad results.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ron Rivera is truly one of the finest, classiest people you will ever meet. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiverboatRonHC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RiverboatRonHC<\/a> for all you did for our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Commanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Commanders<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cOS3jQ5Jo6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cOS3jQ5Jo6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Ein (@Markein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Markein\/status\/1744396628163690938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sweeping overhaul of the organization\u2019s football leadership that started with the firing of manager Ron Rivera today, the franchise owner Josh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":475304,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324,22528,16853],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[17873,22529,18189],"acf":{"announce":"Washington fired its head coach and will start an overhaul.","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\/475303"}],"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=475303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475306,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475303\/revisions\/475306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475303"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=475303"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=475303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}