{"id":16244,"date":"2020-05-02T21:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T01:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=16244"},"modified":"2020-05-02T21:23:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T01:23:33","slug":"andy-dalton-joining-cowboys-on-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2020\/05\/02\/andy-dalton-joining-cowboys-on-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Dalton joining Cowboys on one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2020\/05\/img_1357.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2020\/05\/img_1357.jpg 2000w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2020\/05\/img_1357-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2020\/05\/img_1357-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2020\/05\/img_1357-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2020\/05\/img_1357-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2020\/05\/img_1357-696x696.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2020\/05\/img_1357-1068x1068.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2020\/05\/img_1357-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Andy Dalton is retuning to Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Days after being let go by the Bengals, Dalton is signing a one-year deal to join the Cowboys. <\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old will make $3 million guaranteed on a deal which could earn him as much as $7 million. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: \"Open Sans\"; font-size: 17px; 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\">During Dalton&#8217;s <\/span>time<span style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: \"Open Sans\"; font-size: 17px; 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\"> <\/span>starting with<span style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: \"Open Sans\"; font-size: 17px; 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\"> <\/span>the<span style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: \"Open Sans\"; font-size: 17px; 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\"> Bengals <\/span>the<span style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: \"Open Sans\"; font-size: 17px; 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\"> team was 70-61-2 with playoff appearances from 2011 to 2015 but never a win. Dalton earned three Pro Bowl selections and has a franchise record 204 touchdown passes. Only Ken Anderson (32,838) had more passing yards than Dalton (31,594) with the Bengals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dalton became expendable after the Bengals used the first overall pick to draft Heisman winning quarterback Joe Burrow is LSU. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n  <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former Bengals\u2019 QB Andy Dalton is signing a one-year deal worth up to $7 million that includes $3 million guaranteed with the Dallas Cowboys, source tells ESPN. <\/p>\n  <p>Dalton is returning to Texas.<\/p>\n  <p>\u2014 Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1256751536400674817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dalton went to college at TCU and was born in Katy, Texas. The Cowboys have Dak Prescott as their starter but Dalton jumps to the back-up role putting Cooper Rush&#8217;s role with the team into question. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Dalton is retuning to Texas. Days after being let go by the Bengals, Dalton is signing a one-year deal to join the Cowboys. The 32-year-old will make $3 million guaranteed on a deal which could earn him as much as $7 million. During Dalton&#8217;s time starting with the Bengals the team was 70-61-2 with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[580,174,35,426,216],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16244","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-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-front","12":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244","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=16244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16245,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244\/revisions\/16245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16244"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}