{"id":7488,"date":"2013-12-15T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=7488"},"modified":"2013-12-15T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T18:58:00","slug":"josh-freeman-signing-being-used-as-a-decoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/15\/josh-freeman-signing-being-used-as-a-decoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Freeman signing being used as a decoy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>Confused why Josh Freeman is not playing for the Minnesota Vikings? Perhaps its an attempt to re-sign him for 2014 and get a good draft pick in the process, or he&#8217;s no good or&#8230; who really knows.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one theory from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/vikings\/ci_24726275\/vikings-season-still-could-have-twists-turns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">St. Paul Pioneer Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>The way the Josh Freeman fiasco<\/b>\u00a0has turned out, some people are beginning to wonder whether the signing of the former Tampa Bay QB at the same time the Vikings announced their private seat licensing plans was merely coincidental or a slick attempt at marketing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the Vikings do believe in Freeman it&#8217;s worth asking why he&#8217;s not playing&#8230;. Leslie Frazier has to be on the hot seat entering Week 15 with a 3-9-1 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confused why Josh Freeman is not playing for the Minnesota Vikings? Perhaps its an attempt to re-sign him for 2014 and get a good draft pick in the process, or he&#8217;s no good or&#8230; who really knows. Here&#8217;s one theory from the St. Paul Pioneer Press: The way the Josh Freeman fiasco\u00a0has turned out, some [&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":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-7488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488","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=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/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=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}