{"id":9021,"date":"2014-02-05T15:28:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T20:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9021"},"modified":"2014-02-05T15:28:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T20:28:51","slug":"falcons-cut-corner-asante-samuel-linebacker-stephen-nicolas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/05\/falcons-cut-corner-asante-samuel-linebacker-stephen-nicolas\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons cut corner Asante Samuel, linebacker Stephen Nicolas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9022\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/asantesamuel.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"391\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9022\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/asantesamuel.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/asantesamuel-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/asantesamuel-50x32.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Atlanta Falcons cut cornerback Asante Samuel and linebacker Stephen Nicolas on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel, 33, had fallen into a backup role with the Falcons by the end of the year. His cut will clear over $4 million in cap space for the Falcons in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>While the four-time Pro Bowlers best days are behind him there should be a few teams willing to add him for nickle coverage if the price is right. <\/p>\n<p>The Falcons also cut linebacker Stephen Nicholas. In total the moves cleared roughly $7.5 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Falcons cut cornerback Asante Samuel and linebacker Stephen Nicolas on Wednesday. Samuel, 33, had fallen into a backup role with the Falcons by the end of the year. His cut will clear over $4 million in cap space for the Falcons in 2014. While the four-time Pro Bowlers best days are behind him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[642,56,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-asante-samuel","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021","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=9021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9021"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}