{"id":14307,"date":"2015-09-06T22:24:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T02:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14307"},"modified":"2015-09-06T22:24:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T02:24:17","slug":"falcons-sign-matt-simms-to-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/09\/06\/falcons-sign-matt-simms-to-practice-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons sign Matt Simms to practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14308\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/09\/mattsimms.jpg\" alt=\"mattsimms\" width=\"600\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/09\/mattsimms.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/09\/mattsimms-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Simms was never going to make the roster for the Buffalo Bills, but the veteran was given a chance to audition himself thanks to former New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>Now Simms, 26, has landed on the practice squad for the Atlanta Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons will hope that Matt Ryan and backup Sean Renfree stay healthy and keep Simms on the practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Simms played in one game last season for the Jets He was 3-for-8 for 39 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Simms was never going to make the roster for the Buffalo Bills, but the veteran was given a chance to audition himself thanks to former New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan. Now Simms, 26, has landed on the practice squad for the Atlanta Falcons. The Falcons will hope that Matt Ryan and backup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[591,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-14307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-matt-simms","9":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307","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=14307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14309,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307\/revisions\/14309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14307"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}