{"id":7582,"date":"2013-12-17T09:17:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T14:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=7582"},"modified":"2013-12-17T09:18:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T14:18:41","slug":"joe-flacco-says-knee-is-fine-after-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/17\/joe-flacco-says-knee-is-fine-after-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Flacco says knee is fine after hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/joeflacco1.jpg\" alt=\"joeflacco\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/joeflacco1.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/joeflacco1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/joeflacco1-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nBaltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco says his knee and leg are fine after a hit that occurred in the fourth quarter of Monday&#8217;s 18-16 win over the Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n<p>A Lions defender hit Flacco just below his left knee. The 28-year-old quarterback limped to the sidelines but returned to the game on the following series. While there was some initial concern about Flacco the Ravens sideline seemed to be calm and collected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t really bothering me after the initial hit,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was more probably scary than anything, just from what I felt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels fine. It feels strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flacco has not missed a game in his six ear career and is unsure of what the Ravens staff will want to see before clearing him for next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no idea,\u201d Flacco said. \u201cI\u2019ll talk to the trainers and see what the protocol is. I\u2019m not really used to anything like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens used six field goals from Justin Tucker to upend the Lions. The win keeps the Ravens playoff hopes alive. The have two games remaining as the host New England next week and travel to Cincinnati to close out the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco says his knee and leg are fine after a hit that occurred in the fourth quarter of Monday&#8217;s 18-16 win over the Detroit Lions. A Lions defender hit Flacco just below his left knee. The 28-year-old quarterback limped to the sidelines but returned to the game on the following series. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[166,426,226,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-7582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baltimore-ravens","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-joe-flacco","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7582","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=7582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7582"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}