{"id":11096,"date":"2014-08-24T20:55:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T00:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11096"},"modified":"2014-08-24T20:55:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T00:55:22","slug":"tom-savage-could-begin-season-no-2-at-qb-for-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/24\/tom-savage-could-begin-season-no-2-at-qb-for-texans\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Savage could begin season No. 2 at QB for Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11097\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/tomsavage.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/tomsavage.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/tomsavage-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Houston Texans have uncertainty at the quarterback position. With Ryan Fitzpatrick showing little thus far the Texans could be forced to make a switch relatively quick this season.<\/p>\n<p>While Case Keenum appeared set to begin the season at No. 2 on the depth chart Texans head coach Bill O&#8217;Brien suggested on Sunday that rookie Tom Savage could move ahead of him prior to the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would say it\u2019s pretty close,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien said, via <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/houston-texans\/post\/_\/id\/7104\/obrien-tom-savage-closing-the-gap?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN<\/a>. &#8220;I think it\u2019s pretty close. We\u2019re discussing that right now.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>A fourth-round pick, Savage opened eyes when he led a 74-yard touchdown drive to win Houston&#8217;s third preseason game against Denver. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We broke the huddle, and as a young quarterback when the referee leans into the huddle and he winds the clock you\u2019ve got to get going, so he probably could have called the play before the referee wound the clock,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien said. &#8220;So he ended up calling the play and then having to break the huddle, and it involved some motion and shifting and things like that. &#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Texans have uncertainty at the quarterback position. With Ryan Fitzpatrick showing little thus far the Texans could be forced to make a switch relatively quick this season. While Case Keenum appeared set to begin the season at No. 2 on the depth chart Texans head coach Bill O&#8217;Brien suggested on Sunday that rookie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[802,720],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-11096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-nfl-houston-texans","tag-tom-savage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096","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=11096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11098,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions\/11098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11096"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}