{"id":3128,"date":"2013-03-14T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T14:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3128"},"modified":"2013-03-14T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T14:58:29","slug":"chiefs-release-quarterback-matt-cassel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/03\/14\/chiefs-release-quarterback-matt-cassel\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs release quarterback Matt Cassel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3129\" alt=\"mattcassel\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/mattcassel.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/mattcassel.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/mattcassel-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/mattcassel-50x32.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs have made it official. On Thursday morning the team announced the release of former starting quarterback Matt Cassel.<\/p>\n<p>Signed to a six-year deal worth $63 million in 2009 by former general manager Scott Pioli the Chiefs went 19-28 during Cassel&#8217;s time at quaterback.<\/p>\n<p>Cassel showed early glimpses of living up to his contract but turnovers doomed him as he committed 57 during his time with the Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City added Alex Smith via trade but there was no chance that Cassel returned to team before then. He had been replaced at his position by Brady Quinn mid-season.<\/p>\n<p>Some believe that Minnesota could pursue him as a backup to Christian Ponder. Others believe that New England could look to bring him back which would set up a trade of Ryan Mallett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs have made it official. On Thursday morning the team announced the release of former starting quarterback Matt Cassel. Signed to a six-year deal worth $63 million in 2009 by former general manager Scott Pioli the Chiefs went 19-28 during Cassel&#8217;s time at quaterback. Cassel showed early glimpses of living up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-3128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128","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=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}