{"id":10972,"date":"2014-08-18T12:23:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T16:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10972"},"modified":"2014-08-18T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T16:23:51","slug":"falcons-move-jake-matthews-to-left-tackle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/18\/falcons-move-jake-matthews-to-left-tackle\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons move Jake Matthews to left tackle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/jakematthews.jpg\" alt=\"jakematthews\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/jakematthews.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/jakematthews-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nWith Sam Baker lost for the season the Atlanta Falcons have moved Jake Mtthews to left tackle.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews &#8211; the No. 6 overall pick &#8211; will shift to the left side of the line with Lamar Holmes taking over duties at right tackle.<\/p>\n<p>When drafted many believed that the 22-year-old former Texas A&#038;M tackle could have overtaken Baker for the job at left tackle by midseason.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Falcons?src=hash\">#Falcons<\/a> made the switch. Rookie Jake Matthews at LT and Lamar Holmes at RT.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; D. Orlando Ledbetter (@DOrlandoAJC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DOrlandoAJC\/statuses\/501396488866783232\">August 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Baker injured his right knee in Sunday&#8217;s preseason game against Houston. He played in just four games last season before suffering a left knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following his injury in the game, Sam underwent a number of tests and it was determined that he had suffered a torn patellar tendon and will miss the rest of the season,&#8221; coach Mike Smith said in a statement. &#8220;Sam had worked extremely hard to get back on the field after missing most of last season, and he was having a good camp. I know he is disappointed, but I also know he is a very resilient football player and will do whatever he can to bounce back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons ranked last in the league in yards rushing and quarterback Matt Ryan was sacked a career-high 44 times, in addition to being pressured 203 times, most in the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Sam Baker lost for the season the Atlanta Falcons have moved Jake Mtthews to left tackle. Matthews &#8211; the No. 6 overall pick &#8211; will shift to the left side of the line with Lamar Holmes taking over duties at right tackle. When drafted many believed that the 22-year-old former Texas A&#038;M tackle could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[56,426,736,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-10972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-front","tag-jake-matthews","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10974,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972\/revisions\/10974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10972"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}