{"id":4628,"date":"2013-08-19T08:56:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2013-08-19T08:56:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:56:41","slug":"bills-release-longtime-kicker-rian-lindell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/08\/19\/bills-release-longtime-kicker-rian-lindell\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills release longtime kicker Rian Lindell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/20130819-085527.jpg\" alt=\"20130819-085527.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe Buffalo Bills have released kicker Rian Lindell. The move was confirmed by the team on twitter Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Lindell, 36, was given a four-year deal worth $11 million just a year and a half ago but the Bills have opted to go with rookie Dustin Hopkins this season.<\/p>\n<p>In April\u2019s NFL Draft the Bills used their sixth round pick to draft Hopkins. He will replace Lindell who was the Bills kicker dating back to the 2003 season.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Lindell was 21-of-24 on field goal attempts but has never displayed an especially strong leg from longer then 50-yards. Given his reputation he should be able to find work at some point in the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills have released kicker Rian Lindell. The move was confirmed by the team on twitter Monday morning. Lindell, 36, was given a four-year deal worth $11 million just a year and a half ago but the Bills have opted to go with rookie Dustin Hopkins this season. In April\u2019s NFL Draft the Bills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[131,359],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-rian-lindell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628","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=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}