{"id":477001,"date":"2024-01-27T17:07:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T21:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=477001"},"modified":"2024-01-27T17:07:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T21:07:34","slug":"bears-appoint-washington-as-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bears-appoint-washington-as-defensive-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears appoint Washington as defensive coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Bears have appointed Eric Washington as their defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have hired Eric Washington as our Defensive Coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to Chicago, Coach! \ud83d\udc3b\u2b07\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChicagoBears\/status\/1751305615043957112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Eric (54) will replace Alan Williams, who resigned ahead of Week 2 of last campaign. Chicago manager Matt Eberflus took over defensive play-calling duties and is expected to continue to do so in the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>The new defensive coordinator has spent 20 campaigns as a National Football League coach, including the last 4 with the Bills. Washington comes to the Bears after being Buffalo\u2019s assistant head coach and defensive line coach during the past campaign. Bills\u2019 defense allowed the 4<sup>th<\/sup>-fewest points per match and had the 4<sup>th<\/sup>-most sacks in the past campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Eric is the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> addition to Chicago\u2019s coaching staff in the last few days after the Bears appointed OC Shane Waldron and QB coach Kerry Joseph.<\/p>\n<p>This will be Eric\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup> period with Chicago. Washington previously worked under Lovie Smith as a defensive assistant from 2008 to 2009 and managed the Bears\u2019 defensive line in the next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bears have appointed Eric Washington as their defensive coordinator. We have hired Eric Washington as our Defensive Coordinator. Welcome back to Chicago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":477002,"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":[18136,22610,17873],"acf":{"announce":"Chicago hired Eric as the team\u2019s new DC.","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\/477001"}],"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=477001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477014,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477001\/revisions\/477014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477001"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=477001"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=477001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}