{"id":2989,"date":"2013-02-20T17:32:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T22:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2013-02-20T17:34:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T22:34:02","slug":"dwight-freeney-would-have-taken-discount-to-remain-with-colts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/02\/20\/dwight-freeney-would-have-taken-discount-to-remain-with-colts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwight Freeney would have taken discount to remain with Colts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2990\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2990 \" alt=\"dwightfreeney\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/dwightfreeney.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/dwightfreeney.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/dwightfreeney-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/dwightfreeney-50x34.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dwight Freeney time in Indianapolis is over. Freeney, the Colts all-time sack leader, was informed last week that he would not be brought back.<\/p>\n<p>The new caught the eleven-year veteran off-guard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be honest with you, I was surprised the way it happened,\u201d Freeney said in a telephone interview today with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/article\/20130220\/SPORTS\/302200059\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Star<\/a>. \u201cI figured they would offer me something low and I would just accept it, go the last few years and retire a Colt and that would be it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Freeney says he was informed of the Colts decision in a conference call with owner Jim Irsay and coach Chuck Pagano. Irsay also informed Freeney that the Colts would induct him into their Ring of Honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwight Freeney time in Indianapolis is over. Freeney, the Colts all-time sack leader, was informed last week that he would not be brought back. The new caught the eleven-year veteran off-guard. \u201cI\u2019ll be honest with you, I was surprised the way it happened,\u201d Freeney said in a telephone interview today with the Indianapolis Star. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[235],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-2989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dwight-freeney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","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=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}