{"id":8976,"date":"2014-02-03T17:39:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2014-02-03T17:39:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:39:41","slug":"charles-tillman-open-to-playing-anywhere-interested-in-tampa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/03\/charles-tillman-open-to-playing-anywhere-interested-in-tampa-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Tillman open to playing anywhere, interested in Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7546\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7546\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/charlestillman.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"476\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7546\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/charlestillman.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/charlestillman-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/charlestillman-50x40.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nCharles &#8220;Peanut&#8221; Tillman is open to playing for any team if he does not re-sign with the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n<p>With Tampa Bay hiring former Bears coach Lovie Smith some have already linked Tillman to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, it makes the deal probably a little sweeter just because it\u2019s a former head coach,\u201d Tillman said via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/sports\/football\/bears\/25299569-606\/peanut-tillman-open-to-playing-for-lovie-smith.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chicago Sun Times<\/a>. \u201cYou do know the system, you know the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it helps it from a standpoint that it\u2019s a former coach, a guy that you liked, a guy that you\u2019d been with for 10 years. It\u2019s cool. But it\u2019s free agency. I\u2019m open to whoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tillman has only played for the Bears and reportedly would like to sign a ceremonial contract so he could retire with the team if he were to sign somewhere else for the 2014 season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles &#8220;Peanut&#8221; Tillman is open to playing for any team if he does not re-sign with the Chicago Bears. With Tampa Bay hiring former Bears coach Lovie Smith some have already linked Tillman to them. \u201cObviously, it makes the deal probably a little sweeter just because it\u2019s a former head coach,\u201d Tillman said via the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[125,36,188],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-8976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-charles-tillman","9":"tag-chicago-bears","10":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976","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=8976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8976"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}