{"id":477460,"date":"2024-02-03T11:51:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T15:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=477460"},"modified":"2024-02-03T11:51:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T15:51:56","slug":"seattle-appointing-frazier-as-assistant-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/seattle-appointing-frazier-as-assistant-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle appointing Frazier as assistant head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Seahawks plan to appoint ex-Buffalo Bills DC Leslie Frazier as their assistant HC.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie becomes the 1<sup>st<\/sup> assistant known to be appointed to Mike Macdonald&#8217;s staff. The 2 will work together again in the Seahawks after their period with the Baltimore Ravens in 2016 when Macdonald was the defensive assistant, and Frazier was the secondary coach.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I just spoke directly to Leslie Frazier. He told me within the hour he\u2019s decided to accept the offer from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Seahawks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Seahawks<\/a> to be their next assistant head coach. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TomPelissero<\/a> reported the team first.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie told me on the phone that today 4 teams stepped up efforts to pursue him\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WilFKyoY08\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WilFKyoY08<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JosinaAnderson (@JosinaAnderson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JosinaAnderson\/status\/1753559053588910438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mike, appointed a few days ago after spending the last 2 campaigns as Raven\u2019s defensive coordinator, is the league\u2019s youngest head coach at 36. Leslie (64) brings over 2 decades of National Football League experience to Seattle. Frazier worked as DC for 4 different organizations, most recently doing it in Buffalo from 2017 to &#8217;22 while also being named assistant head coach from 2020 to &#8217;22.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie was also the Minnesota Vikings&#8217; boss from 2011 to &#8217;13. He didn\u2019t coach in the past season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Seahawks plan to appoint ex-Buffalo Bills DC Leslie Frazier as their assistant HC. Leslie becomes the 1st assistant known to be appointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":477461,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324,16751],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[22622,17873,20656],"acf":{"announce":"Leslie will rejoin Mike Macdonald in the Seahawks.","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\/477460"}],"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=477460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477484,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477460\/revisions\/477484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477460"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=477460"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=477460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}