{"id":12311,"date":"2014-10-29T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T16:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12311"},"modified":"2014-10-29T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T16:44:31","slug":"cowboys-sign-veteran-tim-dobbins-to-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/10\/29\/cowboys-sign-veteran-tim-dobbins-to-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys sign veteran Tim Dobbins to contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/timdobbins.jpg\" alt=\"timdobbins\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/timdobbins.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/timdobbins-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nWith Justin Durant out for the season the Dallas Cowboys have signed free agent linebacker Tim Dobbins.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Dobbins has appeared in 110 games over eight seasons in the NFL. His last two seasons were spent with the Houston Texans and prior to that he was a member of the San Diego Chargers and Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>That no one wanted Dobbins when the Atlanta Falcons let him go after the preseason speaks volumes about where he is at this point in his career. He is a substantial downgrade from Durant.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Cowboys working out veteran LB Tim Dobbins&#8230;seeing about a replacement for Durant. Dobbins has 110 career games in eight years<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Eatman (@nickeatman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickeatman\/status\/527484311717806080\">October 29, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Durant was placed on injured reserve on Wedneday with a torn right bicep suffered in Monday&#8217;s loss to Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Justin Durant out for the season the Dallas Cowboys have signed free agent linebacker Tim Dobbins. The 32-year-old Dobbins has appeared in 110 games over eight seasons in the NFL. His last two seasons were spent with the Houston Texans and prior to that he was a member of the San Diego Chargers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-12311","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\/12311","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=12311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12312,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions\/12312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12311"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}