{"id":5637,"date":"2013-10-02T08:38:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T12:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2013-10-02T08:38:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T12:38:50","slug":"cowboys-bench-morris-claiborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/10\/02\/cowboys-bench-morris-claiborne\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys bench Morris Claiborne"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1779\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1779\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1779\" alt=\"morrisclairborne\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/morrisclairborne.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/morrisclairborne.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/morrisclairborne-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/morrisclairborne-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys have benched cornerback Morris Clairborne.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando Scandrick will now start at right cornerback but Claiborne will continue to get some playin time in passing situations.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys coach Jason Garrett believes Clairborne is lacking confidence and proper technique according to ESPN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/dallas\/cowboys\/post\/_\/id\/4716126\/morris-claiborne-is-struggling?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Calvin Watkins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think it\u2019s\u00a0probably a combination,\u201d Garrett said. \u201cTechnically, you go back at each of the completions against him and you say, \u2018Hey, you should do this. You should do that.\u2019 But I also think confidence, playing that position, is critical. And usually those two things work hand in hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re playing technically sound and you have ability, you tend to have more and more confidence because you\u2019re in the right place. They went to him too much in this ballgame, and they were too effective. He\u2019s just got to play better, and he will play better.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Cowboys have had high expectations for Claiborne after moving up eight spots to draft him in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys have benched cornerback Morris Clairborne. Orlando Scandrick will now start at right cornerback but Claiborne will continue to get some playin time in passing situations. Cowboys coach Jason Garrett believes Clairborne is lacking confidence and proper technique according to ESPN&#8217;s Calvin Watkins. \u201cI think it\u2019s\u00a0probably a combination,\u201d Garrett said. \u201cTechnically, you go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[35],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-5637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-dallas-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","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=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}