{"id":14980,"date":"2015-12-13T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14980"},"modified":"2015-12-13T20:04:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:04:54","slug":"andy-dalton-may-be-done-for-season-with-thumb-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/12\/13\/andy-dalton-may-be-done-for-season-with-thumb-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Dalton may be done for season with thumb injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14981\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/andydalton.jpg\" alt=\"andydalton\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/andydalton.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/andydalton-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A.J. McCarron got on the field in Sunday&#8217;s loss to the Steelers and that was not good news for the Bengals.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Dalton suffered a thumb injury and according to ESPN&#8217;s Bob Holtzman may be lost for the season. Dalton&#8217;s best case scenario appears to be a return in time for the playoffs but even that may be expecting to much.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m told about Andy Dalton&#8217;s fractured thumb: likely season ending, best case scenario is playoffs, per multiple team sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 bob holtzman (@BobHoltzmanESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobHoltzmanESPN\/status\/676184683697348608\">December 13, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dalton has had a career year this season for the Bengals who fell to 10-3 with the loss.\u00a0On the season Dalton had completed 66.1% of his passes for 3,191 yards 25 touchdowns and just six interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals are still looking for their first playoff win since the 1990-91 season &#8211; a task which has become more difficult with McCarron under center.<\/p>\n<div class=\"info\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.J. McCarron got on the field in Sunday&#8217;s loss to the Steelers and that was not good news for the Bengals. Andy Dalton suffered a thumb injury and according to ESPN&#8217;s Bob Holtzman may be lost for the season. Dalton&#8217;s best case scenario appears to be a return in time for the playoffs but even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[580,174,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-14980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-andy-dalton","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-front","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14980","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=14980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14982,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14980\/revisions\/14982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14980"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}