{"id":3210,"date":"2013-03-23T18:36:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T22:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2013-03-23T18:36:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T22:36:02","slug":"browns-owner-jimmy-haslam-defines-team-as-optimistic-in-weeden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/03\/23\/browns-owner-jimmy-haslam-defines-team-as-optimistic-in-weeden\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns owner Jimmy Haslam defines team as &#8220;optimistic&#8221; in Weeden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/11\/brandonweeden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1126\" alt=\"brandonweeden\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/11\/brandonweeden.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/11\/brandonweeden.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/11\/brandonweeden-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Cleveland Browns are expected to start Brandon Weeden at quarterback for a second season.<\/p>\n<p>There is a new coaching staff in Cleveland but with the Browns unable to acquire a free agent quarterback and the draft class looking bleak the Browns will be forced to start Weeden again even after declaring a open competition for the job.<\/p>\n<p>No one in Cleveland has declared Weeden the teams quarterback and owner Jimmy Haslam hardly went that far in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/sports\/browns\/browns-owner-jimmy-haslam-pleased-with-offseason-moves-but-doesn-t-expect-instant-success-1.383810?localLinksEnabled=false\" target=\"_blank\">recent report<\/a> from the Akron Beacon Journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they think the offense they\u2019ll run fits our quarterback\u2019s skill set and there\u2019s potential there,\u201d Haslam said. \u201cThey\u2019re optimistic we can put points on the board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weeden finished 2012 with a 72.6 rating while tossing 14 touchdowns and 17 interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Browns are expected to start Brandon Weeden at quarterback for a second season. There is a new coaching staff in Cleveland but with the Browns unable to acquire a free agent quarterback and the draft class looking bleak the Browns will be forced to start Weeden again even after declaring a open competition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[75,139],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-3210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","9":"tag-cleveland-browns"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","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=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}