{"id":11370,"date":"2014-09-05T19:10:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11370"},"modified":"2014-09-05T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T23:15:07","slug":"bills-rift-between-coach-and-front-office-is-due-to-kyle-orton-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/09\/05\/bills-rift-between-coach-and-front-office-is-due-to-kyle-orton-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills rift between coach and front office is due to Kyle Orton signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11372\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/dougmarrone.jpg\" alt=\"dougmarrone\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/dougmarrone.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/dougmarrone-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/dougmarrone-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Buffalo Bills front office and coach Doug Marrone recently had a nasty exchange near players. The confrontation was over the front office&#8217;s decision to sign Kyle Orton following the teams fourth preseason game reports <a href=\"http:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2014\/09\/05\/marrones-frustration-arises-from-orton-signing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pro Football Talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Marrone was not happy about the addition of Orton and his $5 million salary believing that the deal could have a negative impact on second-year quarterback E.J. Manuel who will enter the season as the Bills starter.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel, 24, made 10 starts during his rookie campaign completing\u00a0\u00a058.8-percent of his passes for 1,972 yards and 11 touchdowns to go along with nine interceptions and three rumbles.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills are expected to struggle again this season scoring points, largely due to Manuel. The second-year coach clearly feels his future with the team is tied to the former Florida State quarterback while the current front office is taking the approach of finding a capable veteran should Manuel fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills front office and coach Doug Marrone recently had a nasty exchange near players. The confrontation was over the front office&#8217;s decision to sign Kyle Orton following the teams fourth preseason game reports Pro Football Talk. Marrone was not happy about the addition of Orton and his $5 million salary believing that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[131,464,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-11370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-doug-marrone","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370","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=11370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11375,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions\/11375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11370"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}