{"id":840917,"date":"2026-08-01T18:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840917\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T18:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:52:14","slug":"ottawa-redblacks-fire-defensive-co-ordinator-will-fields-jeff-reinebold-takes-over-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840917\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks fire defensive co-ordinator Will Fields, Jeff Reinebold takes over | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8211; The Ottawa Redblacks fired defensive co-ordinator Will Fields on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The CFL team made the morning announcement after Friday&#8217;s 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>&#8220;These decisions are always difficult,&#8221; Ottawa head coach and general manager Ryan Dinwiddie said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Reinebold shifted from special teams co-ordinator to defensive co-ordinator, and Nick Taylor took over special teams.<\/p>\n<p>The Redblacks have allowed a league-high 247 points against this season for an average of 35 per game.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa&#8217;s next game is against the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Regina on Aug. 7.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA &#8211; The Ottawa Redblacks fired defensive co-ordinator Will Fields on Saturday. The CFL team made the morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,52046,521,52043,52048,127759,198655,39829,168167,20739,14967,4400,82],"class_list":["post-840917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadian-football-league-teams","tag-canadian-football-leagues","tag-canadian-football-teams","tag-football-leagues","tag-gridiron-football","tag-jeff-reinebold","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-redblacks","tag-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840917","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=840917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}