{"id":6349,"date":"2013-10-29T09:36:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T13:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2013-10-29T10:12:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T14:12:31","slug":"tony-gonzalez-now-will-to-accept-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/10\/29\/tony-gonzalez-now-will-to-accept-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Gonzalez now willing to accept trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/20131029-093522.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20131029-093522.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/20131029-093522.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMaybe there is a chance that Tony Gonzalez could finish his NFL career outside of Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old tight end who has been chasing a Super Bowl ring told ESPN on Monday that while he will not demand a trade, he would be okay with on if the Falcons sent him to a contender.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Jimmy Johnson says that it would be respectful of [the Falcons], I see that,&#8221; Gonzalez told ESPN., &#8220;And like I said, if that&#8217;s something they wanted to do and they asked me, then, yeah, I would listen to them, of course. Yes, I would sit down with them.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far neither head coach Mike Smith or general manager Thomas Dimitroff seem willing to part with Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez is owed $3.7 million over the final nine weeks of the season. One potential landing spot is his former team in Kansas City. The NFL trade deadline is at 4 pm ET Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe there is a chance that Tony Gonzalez could finish his NFL career outside of Atlanta. The 37-year-old tight end who has been chasing a Super Bowl ring told ESPN on Monday that while he will not demand a trade, he would be okay with on if the Falcons sent him to a contender. &#8220;When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-6349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349","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=6349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6349"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}