{"id":12363,"date":"2014-10-31T13:32:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T17:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12363"},"modified":"2014-10-31T13:32:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T17:32:01","slug":"cowboys-to-start-brandon-weeden-against-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/10\/31\/cowboys-to-start-brandon-weeden-against-cardinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys to start Brandon Weeden against Cardinals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/brandonweeden.jpg\" alt=\"brandonweeden\" width=\"594\" height=\"377\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/brandonweeden.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/brandonweeden-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/brandonweeden-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe chances of Brandon Weeden being under center for the Dallas Cowboys in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Arizona Cardinals appear to be growing by the day.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after Friday&#8217;s practice, Cowboys offensive coordinator Scott Linehan called it &#8220;rare&#8221; that a quarterback misses an entire week of practice and then plays.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Tony Romo is not at practice. I asked Scott Linehan Thurs if he ever had a QB play Sun after missing practice all wk. &quot;It&#39;s rare,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Charean Williams (@NFLCharean) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFLCharean\/status\/528215816622178304\">October 31, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Romo suffered a back injury in Monday&#8217;s loss. While he was able to return to the game the Cowboys showed they could at-least move the ball and generate points with Weeden producing 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals secondary is shaky at best while their ground stopping game has been one of the NFL&#8217;s best. If the Cowboys are to win on Sunday they will have to air it out some. If inserted into the starting lineup, Weeden gives the Cowboys an ample chance at winning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chances of Brandon Weeden being under center for the Dallas Cowboys in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Arizona Cardinals appear to be growing by the day. Speaking to reporters after Friday&#8217;s practice, Cowboys offensive coordinator Scott Linehan called it &#8220;rare&#8221; that a quarterback misses an entire week of practice and then plays. Tony Romo is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[75,35,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-12363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brandon-weeden","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363","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=12363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12365,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions\/12365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12363"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}