{"id":11880,"date":"2014-10-06T12:35:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T16:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11880"},"modified":"2014-10-06T12:35:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T16:35:33","slug":"lions-cut-alex-henery-will-work-out-kickers-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/10\/06\/lions-cut-alex-henery-will-work-out-kickers-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions cut Alex Henery, will work out kickers Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/alexhenery.jpg\" alt=\"alexhenery\" width=\"594\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11873\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/alexhenery.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/alexhenery-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter Alex Henery was 0-for-3 on Sunday everyone knew the Detroit Lions would be making a change at kicker.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday the team cut the kicker who had been with the team for two weeks. Henery was a combined 1-for-5 in his two games with the Lions after being cut by the Philadelphia Eagles at the end of the preseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions will work out free agent kickers on Tuesday as they try to find a suitable kicker. One option will be Matt Prater who was let go by the Denver Broncos prior to Week 5. Prater&#8217;s four-game suspension is over and he was arguably the NFL&#8217;s best kicker last season.<\/p>\n<p>Missed field goals were a big reason the Lions lost 17-14 to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. The Lions are 3-2 on the season with games against Minnesota, New Orleans and Atlanta prior to their bye week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Alex Henery was 0-for-3 on Sunday everyone knew the Detroit Lions would be making a change at kicker. On Monday the team cut the kicker who had been with the team for two weeks. Henery was a combined 1-for-5 in his two games with the Lions after being cut by the Philadelphia Eagles at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[837,151,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-11880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alex-henery","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11880","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=11880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11881,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11880\/revisions\/11881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11880"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}