{"id":12344,"date":"2014-01-03T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-bucs-hire-fired-vikings-coach-frazier-as-dc\/"},"modified":"2014-01-03T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T22:26:00","slug":"report-bucs-hire-fired-vikings-coach-frazier-as-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-bucs-hire-fired-vikings-coach-frazier-as-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Bucs hire fired Vikings coach Frazier as DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Fired Monday as head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, Leslie Frazier apparently wasn&#8217;t on the market for long.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier told ESPN.com on Friday he will be the next defensive coordinator of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucs fired coach Greg Schiano on Monday after a stormy two-year tenure and amid a house-cleaning that also cost general manager Mark Dominik his job.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier has a history as a defensive coordinator. He led the Vikings defense prior to his promotion to head coach and also served in that position for the Bengals from 2003-04. His units in Minnesota ranked in the top-10 in defense in three of his four seasons. He went 21-32-1 in three-plus seasons as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucs (4-12) had the 17th-ranked defense in the league this season. They haven&#8217;t made the playoffs since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN.com previously reported the Bucs hired former University of California head coach Jeff Tedford as offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Fired Monday as head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, Leslie Frazier apparently wasn&#8217;t on the market for long. Frazier told ESPN.com on Friday he will be the next defensive coordinator of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Bucs fired coach Greg Schiano on Monday after a stormy two-year tenure and amid a house-cleaning that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[68,67,66],"class_list":["post-12344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-buccaneers","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}