{"id":8973,"date":"2014-02-03T13:16:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8973"},"modified":"2014-02-03T13:16:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:16:26","slug":"vikings-qb-matt-cassel-has-until-friday-to-become-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/03\/vikings-qb-matt-cassel-has-until-friday-to-become-free-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings QB Matt Cassel has until Friday to become free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5495\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/cassel.jpg\" alt=\"getty\" width=\"594\" height=\"478\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5495\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/cassel.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/cassel-300x241.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/cassel-50x40.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nMinnesota Vikings quarterback Matt Cassel has until Friday to declare for free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Cassel is set to be paid $3.7 million by the Vikings in 2014 and could be the teams starting quarterback to open the season. It&#8217;s hard to believe he would find more money on the open market.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings have until March 18th to drop Cassel. We see this thing going to that point.<\/p>\n<p>With a new coach in Mike Zimmer and Norv Turner now calling the plays in Minnesota, Cassel could improve on his numbers from 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In his first year with the Vikings, Cassel appeared in nine games, starting six. He completed 60.2 percent of his passes for 1,807 yards tossing 11 touchdowns and nine interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Vikings quarterback Matt Cassel has until Friday to declare for free agency. Cassel is set to be paid $3.7 million by the Vikings in 2014 and could be the teams starting quarterback to open the season. It&#8217;s hard to believe he would find more money on the open market. The Vikings have until March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[33,152,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-8973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-matt-cassel","9":"tag-minnesota-vikings","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973","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=8973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8973"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}