{"id":11132,"date":"2014-08-25T22:21:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T02:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11132"},"modified":"2014-08-25T22:21:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T02:21:40","slug":"brandon-meriweather-suspended-for-two-games-following-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/25\/brandon-meriweather-suspended-for-two-games-following-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Meriweather suspended for two games following hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/11\/brandonmeriweather.jpg\" alt=\"brandonmeriweather\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-985\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/11\/brandonmeriweather.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/11\/brandonmeriweather-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nBrandon Meriweather again earned a suspension for a helmet-to-helmet hit. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday the NFL suspended the safety of the Washington Redskins after he delivered an illegal hit to Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith during Saturday&#8217;s preseason loss.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Meriweather was suspended for two games for illegal hits against the Chicago Bears and wide receiver Brandon Marshall. That suspension was later reduced to one game.<\/p>\n<p>Meriweather has been called for six separate violations of unnecessary roughness rules for hits on defenseless players and the impermissible use of the helmet. <\/p>\n<p>With Phillip Thomas requiring an MRI on his surgically repaired foot after re-injuring it on Saturday the Redskins secondary is a mess. Bacarri Rambo is could be used to fill in for Meriweather during his suspension.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll continue to work on my game, I&#8217;m going to continue to try to get lower, and do the things they ask me to do,&#8221; Meriweather said over the weekend, via The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>The Redskins face Houston and Jacksonville in the first two weeks of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Meriweather again earned a suspension for a helmet-to-helmet hit. On Monday the NFL suspended the safety of the Washington Redskins after he delivered an illegal hit to Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith during Saturday&#8217;s preseason loss. Last season Meriweather was suspended for two games for illegal hits against the Chicago Bears and wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-11132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11132","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=11132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11133,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11132\/revisions\/11133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11132"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}