{"id":841697,"date":"2026-08-02T04:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841697\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T04:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:18:21","slug":"ottawa-redblacks-fire-defensive-co-ordinator-will-fields-jeff-reinebold-takes-over-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841697\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks fire defensive co-ordinator Will Fields, Jeff Reinebold takes over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<br class=\"clr\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"posted\">By Canadian Press on August 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2b04a8390042efda9f666c4c769362c40cf6bb81778b053fc7508a41b1a0434b-400x261.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>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>OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa Redblacks have fired defensive co-ordinator Will Fields.<\/p>\n<p>The team made the announcement after a 34-14 loss to the Montreal Alouettes to fall to a record of 0-7-0 for its worst season start since rejoining the CFL in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Reinebold was shifted from special teams co-ordinator to defensive co-ordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Nate Taylor moved into the job of special teams co-ordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa\u2019s next game is against the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Regina on Aug. 7.<\/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>\u201cThese decisions are always difficult,\u201d Ottawa head coach and general manager Ryan Dinwiddie said Saturday 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<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>13<br \/> -12\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<br class=\"clr\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Canadian Press on August 1, 2026. Montreal Alouettes&#8217; Tyler Snead (85) tries to get past Ottawa Redblacks&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-841697","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\/841697","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=841697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}