{"id":15287,"date":"2016-01-03T15:15:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T20:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=15287"},"modified":"2016-01-03T15:15:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T20:15:59","slug":"kirk-couins-and-starters-may-only-play-first-half-against-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2016\/01\/03\/kirk-couins-and-starters-may-only-play-first-half-against-cowboys\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Couins and starters may only play first half against Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15087\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/kirkcousins.jpg\" alt=\"kirkcousins\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/kirkcousins.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/12\/kirkcousins-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kirk Cousins may only play the first half of Sunday&#8217;s game against the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>At 8-7 the Redskins have won the division and will host a playoff game next week at FedEx Field. With all that being said the team has little to gain by playing their starters throughout a meaningless game against a division rival in the Cowboys (4-11).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Game Preview: <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2016\/01\/01\/washington-redskins-vs-dallas-cowboys-betting-odds-point-spread-and-tv-streaming\/\">Cowboys and Redskins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The belief this\u00a0week has been that the Redskins would only play their starters for a limited about of time with ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter reporting on NFL Insiders that Cousins and other members of the team may only play the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Colt McCoy is listed as No. 2 on the Redskins depth chart at quarterback. The team also has Robert Griffin III on the roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Cousins may only play the first half of Sunday&#8217;s game against the Cowboys. At 8-7 the Redskins have won the division and will host a playoff game next week at FedEx Field. With all that being said the team has little to gain by playing their starters throughout a meaningless game against a division [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[197,55],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-15287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-kirk-cousins","tag-washington-redskins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287","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=15287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15288,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions\/15288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15287"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}