{"id":10395,"date":"2014-05-22T22:17:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T02:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10395"},"modified":"2014-05-22T22:17:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T02:17:21","slug":"cowboys-kyle-orton-31-wants-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/05\/22\/cowboys-kyle-orton-31-wants-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys: Kyle Orton, 31, wants to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8015\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/orton.jpg\" alt=\"Kyle Orton\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8015\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/orton.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/orton-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/orton-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys want Kyle Orton to return for the 2014 season but the backup signal caller reportedly wants to retire.<\/p>\n<p>Orton, 31, is owed $3 million should he choose to play this season. If he sits out he would lose out on that money and be forced to pay the team back $3 million of a $5 million signing bonus he received in 2012.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Cowboys&amp;src=hash\">#Cowboys<\/a> backup QB situation on Total Access. Where it stands: Kyle Orton has told them he wants to retire. They don\u2019t want him to<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/statuses\/469632460385292288\">May 23, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys think highly of Orton and rightfully so as he is one of the NFL&#8217;s best backups. Should he choose to retire the team would be left with Brandon Weeden behind Tony Romo.<\/p>\n<p>A season ago Orton started the Cowboys season finale against Philadelphia in place of an injured Romo. He finished the 2013 season completing 64.7-percent of his passes for 398 yards two touchdowns and two interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>While there has been a lot of questions regarding the future of Orton, no one seems to know why he wants to walk away from the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys want Kyle Orton to return for the 2014 season but the backup signal caller reportedly wants to retire. Orton, 31, is owed $3 million should he choose to play this season. If he sits out he would lose out on that money and be forced to pay the team back $3 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[35,426,568,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-10395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-front","tag-kyle-orton","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10396,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions\/10396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10395"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}