{"id":4653,"date":"2013-08-21T10:28:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2013-08-21T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T14:28:38","slug":"alex-barron-forces-playbook-changes-head-coach-responds-to-criticisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/08\/21\/alex-barron-forces-playbook-changes-head-coach-responds-to-criticisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Barron forces playbook changes, Head coach responds to criticisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Oakland Raiders are changing their playbook with left tackle Jered Veldheer out with a triceps injury.<\/p>\n

Darren McFadden was to run behind Veldeer and now with the tackle out the Raiders have been forced to alternate plans. Alex Barron has taken over Veldeer’s position and already the Raiders have changed their playbook because of him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it changes how we\u2019re going to use everybody, to be honest with you,\u201doffensive coordinator Greg Olson said. \u201cIt\u2019ll impact how we use Darren McFadden, it\u2019ll impact how we use Marcel Reece. You don\u2019t lose a player like that and think that you\u2019re not going to have to change some things or do some things differently.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Rams general manager Billy Devaney gave a critical review of Barron to ESPN. \u201cHe\u2019s got the skill to play. He does not have the heart to play football,\u201d Devaney said. \u201cHe does not like anything about the game except getting paid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raiders head coach Dennis Allen defended Barron.<\/p>\n

\u201cI only have my perspective on Alex Barron since the time he got here,\u201d Allen said. \u201cI haven\u2019t seen that at all from him. I\u2019ve seen a guy who has to continue to improve and continue to work to get better. I\u2019ve seen a guy that\u2019s out here, working hard for this team each and every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barron will start Friday’s third preseason game against the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Oakland Raiders are changing their playbook with left tackle Jered Veldheer out with a triceps injury. Darren McFadden was to run behind Veldeer and now with the tackle out the Raiders have been forced to alternate plans. Alex Barron has taken over Veldeer’s position and already the Raiders have changed their playbook because of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[363,189],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-4653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alex-barron","9":"tag-oakland-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653","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=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}