{"id":13399,"date":"2014-12-22T21:28:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T02:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=13399"},"modified":"2014-12-22T21:28:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T02:28:04","slug":"rex-grossman-turns-down-browns-offer-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/12\/22\/rex-grossman-turns-down-browns-offer-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Rex Grossman turns down Browns offer to start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/rexgrossman.jpg\" alt=\"rexgrossman\" width=\"594\" height=\"471\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/rexgrossman.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/12\/rexgrossman-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Browns quarterback situation is a mess.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Johnny Manziel made two starts before suffering a hamstring injury. He has been ruled out for Week 17 and former starter Brian Hoyer suffered a shoulder injury in relief last week.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Browns are in need of quarterbacks. They called up Rex Grossman who declined an offer to join the team on a one game contract. Instead Grossman will stay at home for the week for Christmas while the Browns turn to Conner Shaw.<\/p>\n<p>We understand the desire to stay home for the holidays but the 34-year-old Grossman had little to no interest this yer. Had he put up some numbers on Sunday perhaps he could have earned himself a year long back-up gig next year. Now he&#8217;ll be sitting at home hosting family and sucking on candy canes. <\/p>\n<p>Then again this is the Browns a team who has lost four in a row and five of its last six.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Browns quarterback situation is a mess. Rookie Johnny Manziel made two starts before suffering a hamstring injury. He has been ruled out for Week 17 and former starter Brian Hoyer suffered a shoulder injury in relief last week. Now the Browns are in need of quarterbacks. They called up Rex Grossman who declined an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[139,216,789],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-13399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"tag-cleveland-browns","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-rex-grossman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399","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=13399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13401,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399\/revisions\/13401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13399"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}