{"id":10829,"date":"2014-08-07T22:34:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T02:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10829"},"modified":"2014-08-07T22:35:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T02:35:35","slug":"ryan-mallett-struggles-in-preseason-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/07\/ryan-mallett-struggles-in-preseason-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Mallett struggles in preseason debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10830\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/ryanmallett.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10830\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/ryanmallett.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/ryanmallett-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/ryanmallett-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nStarting Thursday&#8217;s game for the New England Patriots, Ryan Mallett struggled in the preseason opener.<\/p>\n<p>Mallett started in place of Tom Brady but was just 5-of-12 for 55 yards. He short hopped passes and showed a lack of connection with his receivers.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly this is not what the Patriots were hoping to see out of Mallett as a strong performance could have made him a trade chip heading into the regular season. Instead it opened the door for rookie Jimmy Garoppolo to take the role of the Patriots No. 2 quarterback. <\/p>\n<p>Garoppolo played the entire second half completing 8-of-12 passes for 141 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Thursday&#8217;s game for the New England Patriots, Ryan Mallett struggled in the preseason opener. Mallett started in place of Tom Brady but was just 5-of-12 for 55 yards. He short hopped passes and showed a lack of connection with his receivers. Clearly this is not what the Patriots were hoping to see out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[23,216,676],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-new-england-patriots","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-ryan-mallett"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829","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=10829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10832,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions\/10832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10829"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}