{"id":15107,"date":"2016-01-15T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T17:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/source-pederson-accepts-eagles-coaching-offer\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:03:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T17:03:46","slug":"source-pederson-accepts-eagles-coaching-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/source-pederson-accepts-eagles-coaching-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: Pederson accepts Eagles&#8217; coaching offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PHILADELPHIA<\/strong> \u2014 Kansas City offensive coordinator Doug Pederson has accepted the Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 offer to become their coach, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The person spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday because the Eagles have not officially announced the hiring. Pederson can\u2019t be officially hired as long as the Chiefs are in the playoffs. Kansas City plays at New England on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Pederson started nine games at quarterback for the Eagles in 1999 and began his NFL coaching career as an assistant under Andy Reid in Philadelphia in 2009. Pederson followed Reid to Kansas City in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia also interviewed Adam Gase, who was hired by Miami; Ben McAdoo, who was hired by the New York Giants; Tom Coughlin; and two of the Eagles\u2019 assistant coaches during the 2015 season under Chip Kelly: Pat Shurmur and Duce Staley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Kansas City offensive coordinator Doug Pederson has accepted the Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 offer to become their coach, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday because the Eagles have not officially announced the hiring. Pederson can\u2019t be officially hired as long as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15107"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}