{"id":14649,"date":"2015-10-27T12:43:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T16:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14649"},"modified":"2015-10-27T12:43:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T16:43:52","slug":"texans-release-ryan-mallett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/10\/27\/texans-release-ryan-mallett\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans release Ryan Mallett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10469\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/10\/ryanmallett.jpg\" alt=\"ryanmallett\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a day of confusion around the status of back-up quarterback Ryan Mallett the Houston Texans have released him.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Bill O&#8217;Brien wanted to release Mallett on Monday after he missed a team flight. Since losing the starting quarterback role in during the Week 5 game against Indianapolis, Mallett has been a distraction on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Reports circulated that O&#8217;Brien and general manager Rick Smith were in a power struggle but John McClain of the Houston Chronicle reports the GM wanted to wait to find a veteran replacement. That replacement is likely to be T.J. Yates.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bill O&#8217;Brien has control of 53-man roster. He wanted to cut Mallett Sunday. Rick Smith convinced him they had to wait til they got a vet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John McClain (@McClain_on_NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McClain_on_NFL\/status\/659041869561655296\">October 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mallett has not proven to be a very good quarterback in the NFL but his arm strength should\u00a0at-least keep him around to get auditions for back-up jobs around the league going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a day of confusion around the status of back-up quarterback Ryan Mallett the Houston Texans have released him. Head coach Bill O&#8217;Brien wanted to release Mallett on Monday after he missed a team flight. Since losing the starting quarterback role in during the Week 5 game against Indianapolis, Mallett has been a distraction on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,60,216,676],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-14649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-houston-texans","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-ryan-mallett"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649","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=14649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14650,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649\/revisions\/14650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14649"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}