{"id":11681,"date":"2014-09-19T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11681"},"modified":"2014-09-19T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T16:59:09","slug":"john-abraham-placed-on-season-ending-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/09\/19\/john-abraham-placed-on-season-ending-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"John Abraham placed on season ending IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/johnabraham.jpg\" alt=\"johnabraham\" width=\"594\" height=\"416\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7902\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/johnabraham.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/johnabraham-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/johnabraham-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nOn Friday the Arizona Cardinals placed linebacker John Abraham on injured reserve ending his season following a concussion suffered in Week 1.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham took a week away from the team but once back did not pass though the concussion tests to gain clearance to play. The 36-year-old is the active NFL leader with 133.5 sacks but his career may be over.<\/p>\n<p>After a poor finish to the 2012 season with Atlanta, Abraham joined the Cardinals prior to the 2013 season and was expected to full a pass rush role. Instead he became a fixture in the Cardinals defense making 11.5 sacks.<\/p>\n<p>The loss of Abraham further cripples a Cardinals defense which has been beset by injuries since training camp started. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday the Arizona Cardinals placed linebacker John Abraham on injured reserve ending his season following a concussion suffered in Week 1. Abraham took a week away from the team but once back did not pass though the concussion tests to gain clearance to play. The 36-year-old is the active NFL leader with 133.5 sacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[184,426,287,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-11681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-john-abraham","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11681","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=11681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11682,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11681\/revisions\/11682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11681"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}