{"id":847,"date":"2016-04-27T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T22:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/?p=847"},"modified":"2016-04-27T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T22:42:09","slug":"first-woman-nfl-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/2016\/04\/27\/first-woman-nfl-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"First Woman NFL Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills hired their first female full time coach.They hired Kathryn Smith as a special teams quality control coach.Smith served as the administrative assistant to head coach Rex Ryan this season after working for 12 years for the New York Jets, including the final six under Ryan when he was the Jets\u2019 head coach. Kathryn deserves her promotion to be a full time coach.The bills made history by hiring the first woman NFL coach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/04\/kathryn-smith-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-851\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-851 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/04\/kathryn-smith-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"kathryn-smith\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/04\/kathryn-smith-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/04\/kathryn-smith-1-280x158.jpg 280w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/04\/kathryn-smith-1.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ryan Rex says,\u201dYou can see the success some of these young ladies are having in the coaching profession, such as the young lady that is an assistant to Coach Popovich at the San Antonio Spurs,\u201d.Richie Incognito and Dr. jen Welte are players on the Buffalo Bills and the tweeted on their twitter how happy they are to have her as a coach.Nour Bazzi loves football and she\u2019s really good but she\u2019s too shy to tryout for football and she states, \u201c finally a woman that can help lead football, I believe she will lead the Bills to success\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kathryn Smith replaced Michael Hamlin who was a former NFL player.\u201dKathryn Smith has proven that she\u2019s ready for the next step, so I\u2019m excited and proud for her with this opportunity.\u201d says Ryan Rex the coach of Buffalo Bills.On the other hand some people might not want a woman coach and think the Buffalo bills might lose.But according to the Bills they are happy and thankful for her.Hamza Assli states , I \u00a0hope she will lead them to the superbowl because of her hard work and plan,\u201d.The Bills are proud to be working with Kathryn Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Houda Assli<\/p>\n<p>Unis Middle School Journalist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills hired their first female full time coach.They hired Kathryn Smith as a special teams quality control coach.Smith served as the administrative assistant to head coach Rex Ryan this season after working for 12 years for the New York Jets, including the final six under Ryan when he was the Jets\u2019 head coach. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/2016\/04\/27\/first-woman-nfl-coach\/\" class=\"more-link\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":749,"featured_media":849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}