{"id":14297,"date":"2015-07-31T12:09:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T16:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14297"},"modified":"2015-07-31T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T16:09:52","slug":"bills-give-matt-cassel-first-team-reps-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/07\/31\/bills-give-matt-cassel-first-team-reps-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills give Matt Cassel first team reps on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/07\/mattcassel.jpg\" alt=\"mattcassel\" width=\"960\" height=\"632\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/07\/mattcassel.jpg 960w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/07\/mattcassel-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><br \/>\nMatt Cassel took the first team reps for the Buffalo Bills on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Cassel, 33, has been described as being awful in spring workouts and many accounts of Friday&#8217;s training camp session were similar. <\/p>\n<p>The Bills have been rumored to be moving on from Cassel with Tyrod Taylor and E.J. Manuel both being considered better options going forward. The Bills have a talent laden roster but quarterback continues to be a shortcoming of the team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Matt Cassel sticking with the first team. Throws deep right to Watkins and Ronald Darby with a nice break-up. In one on one coverage.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tyler Dunne (@TyDunne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TyDunne\/status\/627143518994202628\">July 31, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cassel is a longway from his days of being a starter. Last year he appeared in three games for the Minnesota Vikings throwing for 425 yards and a 3\/4 TD\/INT ratio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Cassel took the first team reps for the Buffalo Bills on Friday. Cassel, 33, has been described as being awful in spring workouts and many accounts of Friday&#8217;s training camp session were similar. The Bills have been rumored to be moving on from Cassel with Tyrod Taylor and E.J. Manuel both being considered better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[131,426,33,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-14297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-matt-cassel","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297","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=14297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14299,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions\/14299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14297"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}