{"id":9175,"date":"2014-02-18T12:31:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9175"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:31:11","slug":"panthers-greg-hardy-wants-contract-bigger-than-charles-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/18\/panthers-greg-hardy-wants-contract-bigger-than-charles-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers: Greg Hardy wants contract bigger than Charles Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7299\" alt=\"greghardy\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/greghardy.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/greghardy.jpg 660w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/greghardy-300x145.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/greghardy-50x24.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greg Hardy is the best pass rusher available in free agency and he wants to be paid that way reports Joseph Person of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.charlotte.com\/panthers\/2014\/02\/greg-hardy-franchise-tag-panthers-nfl.html\">Charlotte Observer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hardy, 26, wants a bigger contract than the one that the Carolina Panthers gave Charles Johnson in 2011. Johnson landed a six-year deal worth $78 million, of which $32 million was guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>While the Panthers could place the franchise tag on Hardy the $12.5 million cost would eat up all of their salary cap space.<\/p>\n<p>Hardy had 15 sacks and made 5 tackles while forcing a fumble in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Hardy is the best pass rusher available in free agency and he wants to be paid that way reports Joseph Person of the Charlotte Observer. Hardy, 26, wants a bigger contract than the one that the Carolina Panthers gave Charles Johnson in 2011. Johnson landed a six-year deal worth $78 million, of which $32 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[126,534,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-carolina-panthers","9":"tag-greg-hardy","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175","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=9175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9175"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}