{"id":15182,"date":"2015-12-29T11:43:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T16:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=15182"},"modified":"2015-12-29T11:43:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T16:43:30","slug":"andy-dalton-unlikely-to-play-in-wild-card-game-bengals-need-help-to-get-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/12\/29\/andy-dalton-unlikely-to-play-in-wild-card-game-bengals-need-help-to-get-bye\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Dalton unlikely to play in Wild Card game, Bengals need help to get bye"},"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>The Bengals offense is not quite as potent with AJ McCarron under center and according to NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport the team could very well be without quarterback Andy Dalton should it be forced to play in a Wild Card round game.<\/p>\n<p>Out with a broken thumb on his throwing hand, Dalton is said to be still healing and a few weeks away from being able to play in a game. That is problematic for the Bengals after a 20-17 overtime loss to the Broncos on Monday night left them needing a win and some help if they are to get a first round bye and avoid \u00a0Wild Card game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bengals?src=hash\">#Bengals<\/a> QB Andy Dalton (thumb) is still a few weeks ago, sources say. Out week 17. If CIN is 3-seed, likely AJ McCarron starts in WC round<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/681642469885345792\">December 29, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe Bengals would need a Week 17 win against the Ravens &#8211; which is very probable &#8211; while also needing a Chargers upset of the Broncos.<\/p>\n<p>McCarron is injured himself on his left wrist leaving Keith Wenning as the only healthy quarterback on the teams roster.<\/p>\n<p>If McCarron can go he will start in Week 17 as the Bengals can ill afford a loss. McCarron at-least gives the Bengals a chance should they be forced to play a Wild Card round game but if Wenning is forced to play their season is surely doomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bengals offense is not quite as potent with AJ McCarron under center and according to NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport the team could very well be without quarterback Andy Dalton should it be forced to play in a Wild Card round game. Out with a broken thumb on his throwing hand, Dalton is said to [&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":{"0":"post-15182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-andy-dalton","9":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182","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=15182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15183,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182\/revisions\/15183"}],"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=15182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15182"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}