{"id":11008,"date":"2014-08-19T14:48:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T18:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11008"},"modified":"2014-08-19T14:48:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T18:48:35","slug":"cardinals-bring-in-brett-keisel-for-physical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/19\/cardinals-bring-in-brett-keisel-for-physical\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals bring in Brett Keisel for physical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/brettkeisel.jpg\" alt=\"brettkeisel\" width=\"594\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11009\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/brettkeisel.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/brettkeisel-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nA day after losing Darnell Dockett to a torn ACL, the Arizona Cardinals have brought in Brett Keisel for a physical.<\/p>\n<p>Dockett <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/18\/darnell-dockett-may-have-torn-acl\/\" title=\"Darnell Dockett has torn ACL\">tore his ACL<\/a> during Monday&#8217;s practice ruling him out for the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Keisel had played his entire NFL career with the Pittsburgh Steelers joining the team in 2002. He has stayed in shape and is familiar with Cardinals head coach Brice Arians during his stay with the Steelers offense.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>DE Brett Keisel flying to AZ today to take a physical. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AZCardinals?src=hash\">#AZCardinals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kent Somers (@kentsomers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kentsomers\/statuses\/501785157729521664\">August 19, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Keisel had 29 tackles and four sacks for the Steelers last year. He is a worthwhile gamble for the Cardinals at this point and could help fill the void of Dockett along with Frostee Rucker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after losing Darnell Dockett to a torn ACL, the Arizona Cardinals have brought in Brett Keisel for a physical. Dockett tore his ACL during Monday&#8217;s practice ruling him out for the season. The 36-year-old Keisel had played his entire NFL career with the Pittsburgh Steelers joining the team in 2002. He has stayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[184,793,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-11008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals","9":"tag-brett-keisel","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11008","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=11008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11010,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11008\/revisions\/11010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11008"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}