{"id":10573,"date":"2014-06-11T21:16:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T01:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10573"},"modified":"2014-06-11T21:16:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T01:16:41","slug":"falcons-considering-veteran-lb-jonathan-vilma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/06\/11\/falcons-considering-veteran-lb-jonathan-vilma\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons considering veteran LB Jonathan Vilma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/06\/jonathanvilma.jpg\" alt=\"jonathanvilma\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10574\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/06\/jonathanvilma.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/06\/jonathanvilma-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/06\/jonathanvilma-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Atlanta Falcons find themselves scrambling to find replacements for linebacker Sean Weatherspoon who ruptured his Achillies&#8217; tendon on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Vilma is one player that the Falcons reportedly are taking a look at as a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Vilma has been plagued by knee issues for years and has been a liability when on the field.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Falcons are looking hard at ex-<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Saints&amp;src=hash\">#Saints<\/a> LB Jonathan Vilma to replace Sean Weatherspoon, along vets Pat Angerer &amp; Tim Dobbins, source says.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/statuses\/476884311732256768\">June 12, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>General manager Thomas Dimitroff is also looking at free agents Pat Angerer and Tim Dobbins. Two players the Falcons are not interested in are London Fletcher and James Harrison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Falcons find themselves scrambling to find replacements for linebacker Sean Weatherspoon who ruptured his Achillies&#8217; tendon on Tuesday. Jonathan Vilma is one player that the Falcons reportedly are taking a look at as a replacement. The 32-year-old Vilma has been plagued by knee issues for years and has been a liability when on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[56,645,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-falcons","9":"tag-jonathan-vilma","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573","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=10573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10575,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions\/10575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10573"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}