{"id":12649,"date":"2014-11-14T12:41:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T17:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12649"},"modified":"2014-11-14T12:41:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T17:41:24","slug":"bills-sticking-with-kyle-orton-at-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/11\/14\/bills-sticking-with-kyle-orton-at-qb\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills sticking with Kyle Orton at QB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_1400.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1400.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nDespite back to back poor games out of Kyle Orton the Buffalo Bills will not entertain benching him for E.J. Manuel. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, right now, that hasn&#8217;t crossed my mind,&#8221; head coach Doug Marrone said.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills are still in the playoff hunt and even as Orton has produced back to back poor games he is still the better option at the position. <\/p>\n<p>Part of the frustration with Orton is how strong he played when first thrust into the starters role. <\/p>\n<p>For now Orton remains more accurate and has a better touchdown to interception ratio (10:5) than Manuel (5:3).<\/p>\n<p>Should they fall out of the playoff picture then the Bills may opt to give Manuel another shot. It could be as soon as two weeks from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite back to back poor games out of Kyle Orton the Buffalo Bills will not entertain benching him for E.J. Manuel. &#8220;No, right now, that hasn&#8217;t crossed my mind,&#8221; head coach Doug Marrone said. The Bills are still in the playoff hunt and even as Orton has produced back to back poor games he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[131,568,216],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-kyle-orton","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649","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=12649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12650,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions\/12650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12649"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}