{"id":55561,"date":"2018-12-30T20:49:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T01:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=55561"},"modified":"2018-12-30T20:49:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T01:49:06","slug":"new-york-jets-fire-todd-bowles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/12\/30\/new-york-jets-fire-todd-bowles\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Jets Fire Todd Bowles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The writing has been on the wall, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/jets\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Jets<\/a> officially parted ways with head coach <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BowlTo20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Todd Bowles<\/a><\/strong> after four years, per Field Yates. Bowles piloted the Jets to a 4-12<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>record during 2018, bringing his career record with New York to 24-40.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Jets have fired head coach Todd Bowles.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Field Yates (@FieldYates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FieldYates\/status\/1079552896860123136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>New York Jets Fire Todd Bowles After Four Seasons<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Interestingly enough, this move comes one year after the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2017\/12\/29\/jets-extend-coach-todd-bowles-gm-mike-maccagnan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jets organization extended<\/a> both Bowles and general manager <strong>Mike Maccagnan<\/strong>. However, the disappointing season clearly was enough for Jets owner <strong>Woody Johnson <\/strong>to part ways with the head coach. Bowles best season with New York came back in 2015\u00a0when he guided New York to a 10-6 record during his first year at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>However, Bowles has struggled ever since that magical campaign. Since 2016, Bowles never won more than five games in a single season, finishing last in the AFC East for three straight years. While nobody expected him to usurp <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BradTo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Brady<\/a><\/strong> and the New England Patriots, Bowles should have made the Jets better than an annual bottom feeder.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the New York Jets, Bowles served as defensive coordinator with the Arizona Cardinals. Working under head coach <strong>Bruce Arians<\/strong>, Bowles captained a defense which ranked top-seven in points allowed during both the 2013 and 2014 seasons. While this was his first time with the full-time role, it wasn\u2019t his time with the title. Back in 2012, Bowles served as the interim defensive coordinator with the Philadelphia Eagles following the firing of longtime head coach <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/R\/ReidAn20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andy Reid<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Bowles first entered the NFL as an undrafted safety back in the 1986 season. An eight-year NFL veteran, Bowles played in 117 career games while recording 15 interceptions and seven fumble recoveries. Bowles played before tackles became a quantifiable statistic, so nobody knows exactly how many he recorded throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"v11xPc3iSO1EKKeuGYus6w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1085405648\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'v11xPc3iSO1EKKeuGYus6w',sig:'wcx0l2Pxn8QQQLUsYJbLCYuSYHnikX45G_refnnTbas=',w:'594px',h:'430px',items:'1085405648',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Jets Fire Todd Bowles: After four seasons at the helm, the New York Jets officially parted ways with head coach Todd Bowles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":55562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36],"tags":[61,142,218,40,224],"class_list":["post-55561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jets","category-nfl-news","tag-football","tag-monday-night-football","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-todd-bowles"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}