{"id":35456,"date":"2013-12-30T08:10:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T14:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=35456"},"modified":"2013-12-30T09:16:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T15:16:45","slug":"skins-fire-shanahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=35456","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Skins Fire Shanahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBURN, Va. (AP) &#8211; The Washington Redskins have fired coach Mike Shanahan after a 3-13 season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shanahan was dismissed Monday after meeting with team owner Dan Snyder.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shanahan went 24-40 in four years in Washington, but his greater failure was an inability to restore order and professionalism to a franchise that has often been in disarray for the last two decades.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Redskins finished last in the NFC East in three of Shanahan&#8217;s four seasons. The outlier was 2012, when a seven-game winning streak at the end of the regular season won the team its first division title since 1999.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shanahan had one year remaining on his five-year, $35 million contract.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Snyder will now be seeking his eighth head coach for his 16th season as an NFL owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBURN, Va. (AP) &#8211; The Washington Redskins have fired coach Mike Shanahan after a 3-13 season. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shanahan was dismissed Monday after meeting with team owner Dan Snyder. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shanahan went 24-40 in four years in Washington, but his greater failure was an inability to restore order and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35456","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=35456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35458,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35456\/revisions\/35458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}