{"id":2125,"date":"2013-12-22T11:22:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T16:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2013-12-22T11:22:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T16:22:56","slug":"bill-obrien-contract-buyout-with-penn-state-reduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/12\/22\/bill-obrien-contract-buyout-with-penn-state-reduced\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill O&#8217;Brien contract buyout with Penn State reduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2126\" alt=\"billobrien\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/billobrien.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/billobrien.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/billobrien-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If an NFL team wants to sign Bill O&#8217;Brien away from Penn State it will come at a lower price this offseason. Thus far there are no reports of any team talking to O&#8217;Brien but the Nitany Lions coaches name has been mentioned in conjunction with teams seeking a chance.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/10180138\/bill-obrien-nfl-buyout-penn-state-nittany-lions-reduced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O&#8217;Brien changed the formula for his buyout and reduced the price of an NFL buyout from $19.33 million last year to $6.48 million for this year, per the contract, whereas the buyout another school would have to pay Penn State for O&#8217;Brien is $11.08 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is also reports that O&#8217;Brien is attempting to further lower the buyout. Last season O&#8217;Brien was considered by Philadelphia and Arizona but neither team made an offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If an NFL team wants to sign Bill O&#8217;Brien away from Penn State it will come at a lower price this offseason. Thus far there are no reports of any team talking to O&#8217;Brien but the Nitany Lions coaches name has been mentioned in conjunction with teams seeking a chance. As reported by ESPN: O&#8217;Brien [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,131],"tags":[170,134,171],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaafb-news","category-ncaafb-topstory","tag-bill-obrien","tag-ncaafb","tag-penn-state-nitany-lions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}