{"id":14444,"date":"2015-09-22T21:07:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T01:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14444"},"modified":"2015-09-22T21:07:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T01:07:37","slug":"cowboys-acquire-matt-cassel-promote-kellen-moore-from-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/09\/22\/cowboys-acquire-matt-cassel-promote-kellen-moore-from-practice-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys acquire Matt Cassel, promote Kellen Moore from practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14445\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/09\/mattcassel.jpg\" alt=\"mattcassel\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/09\/mattcassel.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/09\/mattcassel-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After losing starting quarterback Tony Romo on Sunday, the Dallas Cowboys made a trade with the Buffalo Bills to acquire Matt Cassel.<\/p>\n<p>In trading for Cassel the Cowboys and Bills will also swap 2017 draft picks. The Cowboys will send a fifth round pick to the Bills in exchange for a seventh round pick from the Bills.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys had been said to be working\u00a0out Christian Ponder, Matt Flynn and Josh Johnson as they looked for depth behind Brandon Weeden.<\/p>\n<p>While Cassel figures to move behind Weeden on the depth chart for Week 3 the Cowboys will promote Kellen Moore from the practice squad. Moore previously appeared on the roster of the Detroit Lions from 2012-2014 where he met up worked with current Cowboys offensive coordinator Scott Linehan.<\/p>\n<h2>Bears promote David Fales to roster<\/h2>\n<p>The Chicago Bears are another team dealing with a shakeup at quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>With Jay Cutler out with a hamstring injury, the Bears needed someone to serve as a backup behind Jimmy Clausen. That leaves the Bears to promote their 2014 sixth round pick David Fales off the practice squad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pb\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After losing starting quarterback Tony Romo on Sunday, the Dallas Cowboys made a trade with the Buffalo Bills to acquire Matt Cassel. In trading for Cassel the Cowboys and Bills will also swap 2017 draft picks. The Cowboys will send a fifth round pick to the Bills in exchange for a seventh round pick from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[75,36,35,894,426,33,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-14444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-brandon-weeden","tag-chicago-bears","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-david-fales","tag-front","tag-matt-cassel","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444","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=14444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14446,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444\/revisions\/14446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14444"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}