{"id":14145,"date":"2015-02-05T17:43:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T22:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14145"},"modified":"2015-02-05T17:43:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T22:43:25","slug":"titans-waive-michael-oher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/02\/05\/titans-waive-michael-oher\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans waive Michael Oher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/02\/michaeloher.jpg\" alt=\"michaeloher\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14146\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/02\/michaeloher.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/02\/michaeloher-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Blindside has been waived.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Oher was waived by the Tennessee Titans on Thursday as the team avoids paying him a $4 million salary for the 2015 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Titans?src=hash\">#Titans<\/a> have released tackle Michael Oher<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Wyatt (@jwyattsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jwyattsports\/status\/563452993065193472\">February 5, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oher was given a four-year deal worth $20 million last March which was laughable then and plain outrageous now. Oher has struggled during his career.<\/p>\n<p>Someone will likely take a chance on Oher but there are better starting options out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blindside has been waived. Michael Oher was waived by the Tennessee Titans on Thursday as the team avoids paying him a $4 million salary for the 2015 season. The #Titans have released tackle Michael Oher &mdash; Jim Wyatt (@jwyattsports) February 5, 2015 Oher was given a four-year deal worth $20 million last March which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,949,216,58],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-14145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-michael-oher","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-tennessee-titans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14145","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=14145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14147,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14145\/revisions\/14147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14145"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}