{"id":17791,"date":"2013-01-24T12:29:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=17791"},"modified":"2013-01-24T14:09:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T18:09:25","slug":"jets-hire-bobby-april-jr-and-tim-mcdonald-as-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2013\/01\/24\/jets-hire-bobby-april-jr-and-tim-mcdonald-as-coaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Hire Bobby April Jr. And Tim McDonald As Coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/football\/jets\/jets-bring-april-jr-quality-controls-coach-article-1.1245536\" target=\"_blank\">New York Daily News<\/a> is reporting that the Jets have hired Bobby April Jr. to be the Assistant coach\/Quality Controls coach and are expected to hire former All-Pro Tim McDonald as Defensive Backs coach as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMehtaNYDN\/status\/293954606482984960\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Thurman<\/a> is expected to be named as the new Defensive Coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby April Jr. was with the Eagles the past two seasons as their defensive quality control coach. <a href=\"http:\/\/geauxcolonels.com\/staff.aspx?staff=54\" target=\"_blank\">Before<\/a> that he spent time at Nichols St. as a Special Teams Coordinator\/Safeties coach, Portland St. as their Special Teams Coordinator\/Inside Linebackers coach, Tulane as a graduate assistant, Louisiana-Lafayette \u00a0as a student coach &amp; spent time as an NFL intern for 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>Tim McDonald is a 6-time All-Pro safety who played for the Cardinals and the 49ers. His coaching experience as of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim_McDonald\" target=\"_blank\">today<\/a> is as a high school coach in 2009 and 2011-2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Daily News is reporting that the Jets have hired Bobby April Jr. to be the Assistant coach\/Quality Controls coach and are expected to hire former All-Pro Tim McDonald as Defensive Backs coach as Dennis Thurman is expected to be named as the new Defensive Coordinator. Bobby April Jr. was with the Eagles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":17816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/logo1.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-4CX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17791"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17793,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791\/revisions\/17793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}