{"id":19110,"date":"2013-01-17T14:51:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T19:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19110"},"modified":"2013-01-17T14:51:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T19:51:03","slug":"former-bears-head-coach-lovie-smith-to-sit-out-2013-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19110","title":{"rendered":"Former Bears Head Coach Lovie Smith To Sit Out 2013 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bears coach <strong>Lovie Smith<\/strong> is expected to sit out the 2013 NFL season and reconsider his options next offseason, <strong>Sean Jensen<\/strong> of the Chicago Sun-Times reports citing a league source.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smith<\/strong> interviewed for three NFL head-coaching vacancies but the respective clubs picked other candidates and of the two openings remaining, <strong>Smith<\/strong> isn\u2019t believed to be a candidate for either. But <strong>Smith<\/strong> will still collect a handsome paycheck.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears owe him what is believed to be at least $5 million for the 2013 season, and they\u2019ll have to pay him the entire salary. Only in America, a coach has a 10-6 record in 2012, went to the NFC championship game twice, and Super Bowl once, in 9 seasons, and can\u2019t get a job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bears coach Lovie Smith is expected to sit out the 2013 NFL season and reconsider his options next offseason, Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times reports citing a league source. Smith interviewed for three NFL head-coaching vacancies but the respective clubs picked other candidates and of the two openings remaining, Smith isn\u2019t believed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}