{"id":6574,"date":"2013-11-06T12:39:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=6574"},"modified":"2013-11-06T12:39:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:39:40","slug":"e-j-manuel-expected-to-start-for-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/11\/06\/e-j-manuel-expected-to-start-for-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"E.J. Manuel expected to start for Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6575\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6575\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6575\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/ejmanuel.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/ejmanuel.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/ejmanuel-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/ejmanuel-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Buffalo Bills are planning to start E.J. Manuel at quarterback in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel has been out since injuring his knee in a contest against Cleveland on Oct. 3. The Bills are just 1-3 without Manuel under center starting Thad Lewis and Jeff Tuel in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills cleared Manuel to practice this week and have already tweeted out the news to its fan base early Wednesday that he is expected to play in week 10.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RussBrandon\">@RussBrandon<\/a> on EJ Manuel: &#8220;Unless he has a setback, he should be ready to go on Sunday&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Buffalo Bills (@buffalobills) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/buffalobills\/statuses\/398076510101577728\">November 6, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In five games this season Manuel has completed 56.7 percent of his passes for 985 yards, five touchdowns and three interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Buffalo Bills are planning to start E.J. Manuel at quarterback in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Manuel has been out since injuring his knee in a contest against Cleveland on Oct. 3. The Bills are just 1-3 without Manuel under center starting Thad Lewis and Jeff Tuel in recent weeks. The Bills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[131,383,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-6574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-ej-manuel","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574","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=6574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6574"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}