{"id":16058,"date":"2019-11-20T21:06:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=16058"},"modified":"2019-11-20T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:06:09","slug":"matthew-stafford-not-ready-to-sit-out-rest-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2019\/11\/20\/matthew-stafford-not-ready-to-sit-out-rest-of-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford not ready to sit out rest of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6484-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16057\" width=\"324\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6484-1.jpg 324w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6484-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Lions may be out of the playoff picture at 3-6-1 but quarterback Matthew Stafford still aims to see the field again this season.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Driskel has been playing in place of Stafford who has been out with a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>Stafford is still eyeing a return to the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause this is what I do,\u201d Stafford said Wednesday, via DetroitLions.com. \u201cI understand your question, but this is what I love to do. I love playing football. I appreciate all the hard work that all the guys in this locker room and in this organization put into going out there and trying to win games on Sunday and I love being a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When healthy Stafford expects to be under center.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: NotoSerif; font-size: 16.41964340209961px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">\u201cI just know the work that I put into every season and I want to get as many chances as a I can to play with these guys as I possibly can,\u201d Stafford said. \u201cThat\u2019s really just how I think about it. If I\u2019m healthy enough to go play, I\u2019m going to go play.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lions may be out of the playoff picture at 3-6-1 but quarterback Matthew Stafford still aims to see the field again this season. Jeff Driskel has been playing in place of Stafford who has been out with a back injury. Stafford is still eyeing a return to the field. \u201cBecause this is what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[151,426,1051,325,216],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-detroit-lions","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-jeff-driskel","11":"tag-matthew-stafford","12":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16058","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=16058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16059,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16058\/revisions\/16059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16058"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}