{"id":9012,"date":"2014-02-05T09:58:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T14:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9012"},"modified":"2014-02-05T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T14:58:12","slug":"matt-cassel-intends-to-void-contract-become-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/05\/matt-cassel-intends-to-void-contract-become-free-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Cassel intends to void contract, 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 \/>\nMatt Cassel would earn $3.7 million in 2014 with the Minnesota Vikings. Casssel currently is considered to be the Vikings starting quarterback entering 2014 but the team has a new head coach in Mike Zimmer and the No. 8 overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>If Cassel, 31, were to stay with the Vikings the team would have until March 18 to drop him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Email this a.m. from someone directly in the know on the Matt Cassel Fri. deadline: &quot;He will void.&quot; I still think he&#39;s back though. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23vikings&amp;src=hash\">#vikings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Darren Wolfson (@DarrenWolfson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrenWolfson\/statuses\/431031780867444736\">February 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Cassel is hoping to be compensated more closely to that of a starting quarterback, rather then the back-up deal he was signed to prior to last season.<\/p>\n<p>Other free agent quarterbacks include a bunch of back-up types in Michael Vick, Josh McCown, Chad Henne, and Shaun Hill to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Cassel completed 60.2 percent of his passes in 2013 for 1,807 yards, 11 touchdowns and nine intercetions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Cassel would earn $3.7 million in 2014 with the Minnesota Vikings. Casssel currently is considered to be the Vikings starting quarterback entering 2014 but the team has a new head coach in Mike Zimmer and the No. 8 overall pick. If Cassel, 31, were to stay with the Vikings the team would have until [&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-9012","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\/9012","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=9012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012\/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=9012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9012"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}