{"id":14998,"date":"2015-12-15T10:51:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14998"},"modified":"2015-12-15T10:51:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:51:15","slug":"cowboys-will-not-shut-down-dez-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/12\/15\/cowboys-will-not-shut-down-dez-bryant\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys will not shut down Dez Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14999\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/dezbryant.jpg\" alt=\"dezbryant\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/dezbryant.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/dezbryant-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even at 4-8 on the season the Dallas Cowboys do not plan to shut down wide receiver Dez Bryant who is dealing with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant has been out of the Cowboys offense nearly completely the last few weeks with Matt Cassel quarterbacking the team. In last Sunday&#8217;s loss to the Green Bay Packers he had just six targets and three drop.<\/p>\n<p>On the season he has just two touchdowns and has not topped\u00a060 yards in a game just twice. Still team owner Jerry Jones is not ready to shut down his star receiver who he paid up for in the offeseason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, not at all,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;We&#8217;ll go balls out with Dez.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cassel will at-least be quarterbacking the Cowboys in Saturday&#8217;s game against a starch New York Jets defense which should all but shut down Bryant&#8217;s stat line.<\/p>\n<p>Fans continue to clamor for the Cowboys to give Kellen Moore a chance under center in what has been a lost season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even at 4-8 on the season the Dallas Cowboys do not plan to shut down wide receiver Dez Bryant who is dealing with a knee injury. Bryant has been out of the Cowboys offense nearly completely the last few weeks with Matt Cassel quarterbacking the team. In last Sunday&#8217;s loss to the Green Bay Packers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[35,80,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-14998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dez-bryant","tag-front","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998","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=14998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15000,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions\/15000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14998"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}