{"id":5494,"date":"2013-09-27T08:52:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T12:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2013-09-27T08:52:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T12:52:37","slug":"vikings-to-start-matt-cassel-against-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/09\/27\/vikings-to-start-matt-cassel-against-steelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings to start Matt Cassel against Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5495\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5495\" alt=\"getty\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/cassel.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/cassel.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/cassel-300x241.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/cassel-50x40.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Minnesota Vikings announced on Friday that they would start backup quarterback Matt Cassel for Sunday&#8217;s game against Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Cassel had been working with the first team this week, including during Friday&#8217;s practice session. Head coach Leslie Frazier had said during the week that the team wanted Christian Ponder to play but his rib injury has kept him from practicing this week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Matt Cassel will start at QB for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Vikings&amp;src=hash\">#Vikings<\/a> this Sunday. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23PITvsMIN&amp;src=hash\">#PITvsMIN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23NFLUK&amp;src=hash\">#NFLUK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vikings\/statuses\/383556846713602048\">September 27, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If Cassel performs well there is a good chance he will keep the starting quarterback job for the team. Currently 0-3 the Vikings are in desperate need of a win to have any chance of returning to the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Cassel appeared in nine games with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2012 completing 58.1 percent of his passes for 1796 yards, six touchdowns and 12 interceptions. He also committed seven fumbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings announced on Friday that they would start backup quarterback Matt Cassel for Sunday&#8217;s game against Pittsburgh. Cassel had been working with the first team this week, including during Friday&#8217;s practice session. Head coach Leslie Frazier had said during the week that the team wanted Christian Ponder to play but his rib injury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[33,409],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-5494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-matt-cassel","9":"tag-minnesota-vkings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494","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=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}