{"id":9368,"date":"2014-03-04T19:25:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T00:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9368"},"modified":"2014-03-04T19:25:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T00:25:21","slug":"cowboys-want-demarcus-ware-to-stay-need-him-to-take-pay-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/03\/04\/cowboys-want-demarcus-ware-to-stay-need-him-to-take-pay-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys want DeMarcus Ware to stay, need him to take pay cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9264\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/demarcusware.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"403\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9264\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/demarcusware.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/demarcusware-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/demarcusware-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys have pushed a decision about DeMarcus Ware down the line for seasons. During that time the defensive lineman was one of the best in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Now the 31-year-old Ware is coming off a season in which he dealt with injuries and a drop in play. The Cowboys pressed for cap space have informed Ware that he needs to take a paycut.<\/p>\n<p>Ware is due $12.25 million this season and will county a whopping $13.75 million against the cap. While the Cowboys restructured the deals of Tony Romo, Sean Lee and Orlando Scandrick \u00a0the same will not happen this season for Ware.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Cowboys&amp;src=hash\">#Cowboys<\/a> contacted DeMarcus Ware today to let him know they definitely wanted to keep him. But not at $13M per year. Decision time.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/statuses\/440984377963474944\">March 4, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ware finished the 2013 season with a career low six sacks and 40 tackles in 13 games. Prior to 2013 Ware had recorded double digit sacks for seven straight seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys have pushed a decision about DeMarcus Ware down the line for seasons. During that time the defensive lineman was one of the best in the NFL. Now the 31-year-old Ware is coming off a season in which he dealt with injuries and a drop in play. The Cowboys pressed for cap space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[35,239,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-demarcus-ware","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368","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=9368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9368"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}