{"id":603,"date":"2009-05-19T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T20:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2009-05-19T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T20:39:33","slug":"jim-johnson-taking-a-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Jim Johnson taking a leave."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jim Johnson is taking some time off from his duties as the Eagles defensive coordinator because of health problems.Johnson is battling cancer and was coaching from a motorized vehicle during the mini camp.  He is undergoing chemotherapy which weakens the patient.<\/p>\n<p>Eagles head coach Andy Reid made a statement and basically said that Johnson was struggling physically.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told him to take care of himself first, and when he&#8217;s ready to come back, come back.&#8221; Eagles coach Andy Reid said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to tell you he&#8217;s great, but he&#8217;s not. He&#8217;s struggling right now,&#8221; said Reid, who said he talks to Johnson every day on the telephone. &#8220;I told him, when you feel like it, come back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The defensive coordinator duties will be taken over by Sean McDermott the team&#8217;s secondary coach.  McDermott has been with the Birds for 11 years. \u00a0-gcobb.com<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You always hate to see something like this. \u00a0You pray that he will be fine and that everything will be smooth. \u00a0Lets hope that he can have a full recovery. \u00a0I hate to say it but hopefully we can get him back on the turff soon it would be tough enough losing B-Dawk this year on defense not alone mention the force that this guy brings. \u00a0In all due respect though McDermott is one heck of a coach and I&#8217;m sure will do just fine while filling in for Jim Johnson. \u00a0Get well Jim and lets cross our fingers we get to see you soon.<em> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Johnson is taking some time off from his duties as the Eagles defensive coordinator because of health problems.Johnson is battling cancer and was coaching from a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[688,685,687,686,684,689],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia_eagles","tag-cancer-jim-johnson","tag-jim-johnson-cancer","tag-jim-johnson-defensive","tag-jim-johnson-eagles","tag-jim-johnson-sick","tag-kemotherapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}