{"id":3047,"date":"2013-03-03T15:21:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T20:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2013-03-03T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T20:21:32","slug":"colt-mccoys-rising-salary-places-doubt-in-return-to-browns-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/03\/03\/colt-mccoys-rising-salary-places-doubt-in-return-to-browns-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Colt McCoy&#8217;s rising salary places doubt in return to Browns in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3048\" alt=\"coltmccoy\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/coltmccoy.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/coltmccoy.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/coltmccoy-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/coltmccoy-50x31.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Cleveland Browns may have told Colt McCoy that he was in the teams plans for 2013 but that is no guarantee. McCoy&#8217;s salary is scheduled to rise thanks to playing time escalators.<\/p>\n<p>McCoy&#8217;s base salary for 2013 was to be $575,000 but will now rise to $2.325 million.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Browns do not consider McCoy an option at the quarterback position, and he falls short of the teams ideal vertical passer, his time in Cleveland may be over.<\/p>\n<p>If the Browns do release McCoy there are options. Cleveland area beat writers consider Matt Moore, former Dolphins backup, and Derek Anderson as viable options.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year old McCoy has appeared in 24 games over his three year span in Cleveland. He has thrown 21 touchdowns and 20 interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Browns may have told Colt McCoy that he was in the teams plans for 2013 but that is no guarantee. McCoy&#8217;s salary is scheduled to rise thanks to playing time escalators. McCoy&#8217;s base salary for 2013 was to be $575,000 but will now rise to $2.325 million. Since the Browns do not consider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[74],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-3047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-colt-mccoy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","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=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}