{"id":840826,"date":"2026-08-01T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840826\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:49:10","slug":"ottawa-redblacks-fire-defensive-co-ordinator-will-fields-jeff-reinebold-takes-over-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840826\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks fire defensive co-ordinator Will Fields, Jeff Reinebold takes over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785602893_737_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Montreal Alouettes&#8217; Tyler Snead (85) tries to get past Ottawa Redblacks&#8217; CJ Reavis (8) and Demerio Houston (6) during first half CFL action in Ottawa, Friday, July 31, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 1, 2026 | 9:31 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa Redblacks fired defensive co-ordinator Will Fields on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The CFL team made the morning announcement after Friday\u2019s 34-14 loss to the Montreal Alouettes to fall to a record of 0-7-0 for its worst season start since rejoining the league in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese decisions are always difficult,\u201d Ottawa head coach and general manager Ryan Dinwiddie said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill is a quality coach and an even better person and we want to thank him for his contributions to the Redblacks organization over the past two seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal Alouettes&#8217; Tyler Snead (85) tries to get past Ottawa Redblacks&#8217; CJ Reavis (8) and Demerio Houston (6)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-840826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840826","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=840826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}