{"id":9196,"date":"2014-02-19T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T20:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9196"},"modified":"2014-02-19T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T20:25:26","slug":"charles-tillman-will-play-anywhere-just-not-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/19\/charles-tillman-will-play-anywhere-just-not-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Tillman will play anywhere, just not safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7546\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7546\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7546\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/charlestillman.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"476\" 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>\n<p>Charles Tillman believes he is still an above average cornerback in the NFL and is not open to playing safety.<\/p>\n<p>Tillman, 32, has been a fixture with the Chicago Bears but knows he may not be back with the team when free agency starts in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy gut is I will be on an NFL team next year,\u201d Tillman said Wednesday while appearing on <em>The McNeil and Spiegel Show<\/em> on 670 The Score. \u201cEveryone knows how the process works. It\u2019s a business. If I\u2019m here, sweet. If I\u2019m not, that\u2019s business \u2026 There\u2019s no hard feelings. I love Chicago. Chicago\u2019s been nothing but great \u2014 great owners, great organization, great teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressed about whether or not the Bears wanted him back, Tillman responded that he knows the Bears want him back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case,\u201d Tillman said. \u201cI don\u2019t think that they don\u2019t want me back. Hell, I know they want me back. I think it\u2019s a matter of finances and everything working out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there is one thing that Tillman will not do anywhere, play safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to play safety anywhere,\u201d Tillman said.<\/p>\n<p>There have been ongoing speculation that Tillman will end up in Tampa Bay with former Bears coach Lovie Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Tillman believes he is still an above average cornerback in the NFL and is not open to playing safety. Tillman, 32, has been a fixture with the Chicago Bears but knows he may not be back with the team when free agency starts in a few weeks. \u201cMy gut is I will be on [&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":[125,36,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9196","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-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196","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=9196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/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=9196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}