{"id":13613,"date":"2015-01-01T11:53:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=13613"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:53:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:53:54","slug":"nick-fairley-will-not-play-against-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/01\/01\/nick-fairley-will-not-play-against-cowboys\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Fairley will not play against Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/01\/nickfairley.jpg\" alt=\"nickfairley\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13614\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/01\/nickfairley.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/01\/nickfairley-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Lions will not have defensive tackle Nick Fairley for Sunday&#8217;s Wild Card game against the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>Fairley has not played since Week 8 while dealing with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>News that he will not play on Sunday is hardly a surprise. There is some belief that he could return if the Lions advance. Regardless Fairley would only be a package player.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Fairley won&#39;t play Sunday, but that could set up the timeline for him getting back on the field if the Lions advance past Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim Twentyman (@ttwentyman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ttwentyman\/status\/550688058186944512\">January 1, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Though four years in the NFL Fairley has never played a full regular season. He finished this year with 14 tackles and a sack though eight contests. Set to become a free agent there is no reason to believe he will ever wear a Lions uniform again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lions will not have defensive tackle Nick Fairley for Sunday&#8217;s Wild Card game against the Cowboys. Fairley has not played since Week 8 while dealing with a knee injury. News that he will not play on Sunday is hardly a surprise. There is some belief that he could return if the Lions advance. Regardless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[151,216,912],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-13613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-detroit-lions","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nick-fairley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613","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=13613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13615,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions\/13615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13613"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}