{"id":5474,"date":"2013-09-25T10:52:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2013-09-25T10:52:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:52:24","slug":"freeman-benched-glennon-named-buccaneers-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/09\/25\/freeman-benched-glennon-named-buccaneers-starter\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeman benched, Glennon named Buccaneers starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5476\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5476\" alt=\"mikeglennon\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/mikeglennon.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/mikeglennon.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/mikeglennon-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/mikeglennon-50x34.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Josh Freeman era in Tampa Bay is over. After a series of stories which brought the 25-year-old&#8217;s ability to lead into question he failed to produce on the field. In turn Tampa Bay has named Mike Glennon as the starting quarterback going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Glennon, a third-round pick, should be the Buccaneers starter for the rest of the season barring an injury.<\/p>\n<p>During the preseason, Glennon completed 33-of-70 passes (47.1 percent) for 397 yards with three touchdowns and three interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman was the No. 17 overall pick in the 2009 draft but never lead the Buccaneers to the playoffs. After some initial success Freeman was 24-35 as the starter. Tampa Bay could offer him in a trade but thus far he has shown little to nothing this season. He will be a free agent at seasons end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Josh Freeman era in Tampa Bay is over. After a series of stories which brought the 25-year-old&#8217;s ability to lead into question he failed to produce on the field. In turn Tampa Bay has named Mike Glennon as the starting quarterback going forward. Glennon, a third-round pick, should be the Buccaneers starter for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[408,188],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-5474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mike-glennon","9":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474","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=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}