{"id":161703,"date":"2019-01-08T07:27:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=161703"},"modified":"2019-01-08T15:32:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T21:32:17","slug":"packers-select-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=161703","title":{"rendered":"Green Bay Packers select new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-161710\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/LefleurMatt-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/LefleurMatt-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/LefleurMatt-431x287.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/LefleurMatt-862x574.jpg 862w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/LefleurMatt-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/LefleurMatt-263x175.jpg 263w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/LefleurMatt.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 The Green Bay Packers have found their new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>A person familiar with the decision says Titans offensive coordinator Matt LaFleur has accepted Green Bay&#8217;s offer to become the next head coach of the Packers.<\/p>\n<p>LaFleur would replace Mike McCarthy, who was fired during the season after a stunning home loss to Arizona. LaFleur was offensive coordinator with the Rams in 2017, leading a group that paced the NFL in scoring was 10th in total offense.<\/p>\n<p>Offensive coordinator Joe Philbin went 2-2 to close out the season as the Packers failed to reach the playoffs for the second straight year. The 6-9-1 record was also the second straight under .500 for the storied franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 The Green Bay Packers have found their new head coach. A person familiar with the decision says Titans offensive coordinator Matt LaFleur has accepted Green Bay&#8217;s offer to become the next head coach of the Packers. LaFleur would replace Mike McCarthy, who was fired during the season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161703","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\/161703","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=161703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161763,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161703\/revisions\/161763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}