{"id":14251,"date":"2015-03-31T15:52:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T19:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14251"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:52:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T19:52:19","slug":"ravens-add-matt-schaub-as-backup-to-joe-flacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/03\/31\/ravens-add-matt-schaub-as-backup-to-joe-flacco\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens add Matt Schaub as backup to Joe Flacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11100\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/mattschaub.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"430\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11100\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/mattschaub.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/mattschaub-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Baltimore Ravens have improved their depth behind starting quarterback Joe Flacco. On Tuesday the team agreed to terms on a deal with Matt Schaub.<\/p>\n<p>Schaub is best known for his time with the Houston Texans before he career went south and he spent last season as a backup to rookie Derek Caar of the Oakland Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>Going on 34, Schaub tossed two interceptions in 10 attempts lat season while being sacked three times. Schaub is a shaky bet going forward but should still prove to be better than Tyrod Taylor. The Ravens will be glad that Flacco has not missed a game in his seven year career.<\/p>\n<p>According to various reports the Atlanta Falcons, Dallas Cowboys and Tennessee Titans all had varying degrees of interest in Schaub as a backup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Ravens have improved their depth behind starting quarterback Joe Flacco. On Tuesday the team agreed to terms on a deal with Matt Schaub. Schaub is best known for his time with the Houston Texans before he career went south and he spent last season as a backup to rookie Derek Caar of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,416,216,189],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-14251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-matt-schaub","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-oakland-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251","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=14251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14252,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251\/revisions\/14252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14251"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}