{"id":10138,"date":"2013-01-07T10:29:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T16:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=10138"},"modified":"2013-01-07T11:45:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T17:45:45","slug":"bills-hire-cuses-marrone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=10138","title":{"rendered":"Bills&#8217; Hire &#8216;Cuse&#8217;s Marrone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MarroneDoug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10139\" title=\"MarroneDoug\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MarroneDoug.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>\u00a0ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP jAN 7, 2013) &#8211; It&#8217;s official: Doug Marrone is the Buffalo Bills&#8217; new coach.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The franchise released the announcement via text message on Monday. A news conference at the team&#8217;s facility will follow.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hired after going 25-25 in four seasons at Syracuse, Marrone agreed to the contract on Sunday. The 48-year-old from the Bronx takes over a week after Chan Gailey was fired following three consecutive losing seasons.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marrone becomes the Bills&#8217; fifth coach in 12 years, and inherits a franchise that newly promoted team president Russ Brandon described as having a &#8220;tarnished&#8221; reputation.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Buffalo&#8217;s 13-season playoff drought is the NFL&#8217;s longest active streak, and the team has not had a winning record since 2004, when it finished 9-7.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marrone is described as a no-nonsense disciplinarian. He has seven seasons of NFL coaching experience as an assistant,\u00a0\u00a0with New Orleans and the New York Jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP jAN 7, 2013) &#8211; It&#8217;s official: Doug Marrone is the Buffalo Bills&#8217; new coach. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The franchise released the announcement via text message on Monday. A news conference at the team&#8217;s facility will follow. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hired after going 25-25 in four seasons at Syracuse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10157,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions\/10157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}