{"id":14606,"date":"2015-10-17T15:18:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T19:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14606"},"modified":"2015-10-17T15:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T19:18:59","slug":"e-j-manuel-expected-to-start-for-bills-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/10\/17\/e-j-manuel-expected-to-start-for-bills-2\/","title":{"rendered":"E.J. Manuel expected to start for Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14607\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/10\/ejmanuel.jpg\" alt=\"ejmanuel\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/10\/ejmanuel.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/10\/ejmanuel-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With Tyrod Taylor dealing with a knee injury the Buffalo Bills figure to turn to former first-round draft pick E.J. Manuel at quarterback for Sunday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/10\/17\/cincinnati-bengals-vs-buffalo-bills-betting-odds-point-spread-and-tv-info\/\">contest against the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor reportedly attempted to convince coaches to let him play this weekend but signs have pointed to Manuel starting the whole time. Taylor is expected to play in Week 7.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel took the majority of the snaps this weekend in practice and will look to have a big game. The problem for Manuel is that the Bills are dealing with injuries to wide receiver Sammy Watkins and LeSean McCoy as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pb\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Tyrod Taylor dealing with a knee injury the Buffalo Bills figure to turn to former first-round draft pick E.J. Manuel at quarterback for Sunday&#8217;s contest against the Cincinnati Bengals. Taylor reportedly attempted to convince coaches to let him play this weekend but signs have pointed to Manuel starting the whole time. Taylor is expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[387,216,964],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-14606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-e-j-manuel","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-tyrod-taylor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606","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=14606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14608,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions\/14608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14606"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}