{"id":6222,"date":"2013-10-25T22:43:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T02:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=6222"},"modified":"2013-10-25T22:43:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T02:43:54","slug":"josh-freeman-believes-nerves-caused-inaccuracy-in-first-vikings-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/10\/25\/josh-freeman-believes-nerves-caused-inaccuracy-in-first-vikings-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Freeman believes nerves caused inaccuracy in first Vikings start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6223\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6223\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/joshfreeman1.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/joshfreeman1.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/joshfreeman1-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/joshfreeman1-50x36.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Josh Freeman will not start on Sunday for the Minnesota Vikings after suffering a concussion in the third quarter of Monday&#8217;s game against the New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman was making his first start for the Vikings and struggled to connect with wide receivers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking back, maybe I was a little too fired up at first,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/9878531\/minnesota-vikings-josh-freeman-pins-inaccuracy-nerves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Freeman said<\/a>. &#8220;There&#8217;s definitely a lot of correctable things, things that going into the game I would&#8217;ve banked on me being able to complete or get done on the field, but at the same time we weren&#8217;t able to do so, so I&#8217;m moving forward and just got to find a way to be better prepared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to leaving the game,\u00a0Freeman went 20-of-53 for 190 yards and an interception.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Ponder will start for the Vikings this week against Green Bay. If Ponder plays well he could create more confusion at the quarterback position for a team that has already started three different signal callers and is just 1-5 on the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Josh Freeman will not start on Sunday for the Minnesota Vikings after suffering a concussion in the third quarter of Monday&#8217;s game against the New York Giants. Freeman was making his first start for the Vikings and struggled to connect with wide receivers. &#8220;Looking back, maybe I was a little too fired up at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,392,152,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-6222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-josh-freeman","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222","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=6222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}