{"id":29602,"date":"2025-01-05T17:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T23:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=29602"},"modified":"2025-01-05T17:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T23:04:50","slug":"hold-the-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=29602","title":{"rendered":"Hold the Mayo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the hap-hapiest time of the year. That is, the final Sunday of the NFL season, and the lead-up to Bloody Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Except Bloody Monday has increasingly started on Sunday. Like it did this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/43300017\/patriots-fire-jerod-mayo-finishing-4-13-lone-season\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jerod Mayo out as head coach of the New England Patriots<\/a>. One year, 4-13.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/43300017\/patriots-fire-jerod-mayo-finishing-4-13-lone-season\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Patriots won Mayo&#8217;s last game as coach, a 23-16 victory over the Buffalo Bills that dropped New England from picking No. 1 in the 2025 draft to No. 4, instead.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/43294926\/sources-browns-fire-oc-ken-dorsey-ol-coach-andy-dickerson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Cleveland Browns have fired offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey and offensive line coach Andy Dickerson<\/a>. Cleveland finished the season on Saturday, and went 3-14.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going out this evening with friends, but if I get a chance and if there are more firings, I&#8217;ll try to update here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the hap-hapiest time of the year. That is, the final Sunday of the NFL season, and the lead-up to Bloody Monday. Except Bloody Monday has increasingly started on Sunday. Like it did this year. Jerod Mayo out as head coach of the New England Patriots. One year, 4-13. The Patriots won Mayo&#8217;s last game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,35,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firings","category-nfl","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29604,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29602\/revisions\/29604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}