{"id":476204,"date":"2026-02-15T09:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/476204\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T09:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:09:11","slug":"raiders-to-retain-defensive-pass-game-coordinator-joe-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/476204\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders to retain defensive pass game coordinator Joe Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Raiders are staying in-house by promoting their defensive line coach\/run game coordinator Rob Leonard to defensive coordinator and that won\u2019t be the only continuity on Klint Kubiak\u2019s coaching staff. <\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JFowlerESPN\/status\/2022795064590626827\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the team will also be retaining<\/a> their defensive pass game coordinator Joe Woods. Woods spent the 2014 season as the Raiders\u2019 defensive backs coach. <\/p>\n<p>Woods joined the Raiders in 2025 and was the defensive coordinator for the Saints for the two previous seasons. Kubiak was the offensive coordinator in New Orleans in 2024, so it won\u2019t be the first time the two men are working together. <\/p>\n<p>Woods also spent three seasons as the defensive coordinator of the Browns and held the same role with the Broncos in 2017 and 2018. He has also worked for the 49ers, Vikings and Buccaneers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raiders are staying in-house by promoting their defensive line coach\/run game coordinator Rob Leonard to defensive coordinator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-476204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}