{"id":1404,"date":"2012-12-05T15:59:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T20:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2012-12-05T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T21:00:21","slug":"john-skelton-to-start-for-cardinals-in-week-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/12\/05\/john-skelton-to-start-for-cardinals-in-week-14\/","title":{"rendered":"John Skelton to start for Cardinals in Week 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1405\" title=\"johnskelton\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/johnskelton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/johnskelton.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/johnskelton-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/johnskelton-50x38.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ryan Lindley experiment at quarterback is over. John Skelton will start for the Arizona Cardinals in Week 14 at Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the struggles of Lindley, 10-of31 with a interception, the Cardinals never considered allowing Skelton to play in last weeks loss to the New York Jets. During that game the Jets replaced a struggling Mark Sanchez at quarterback and won with third string Greg McElroy.<\/p>\n<p>Skelton has played in six games this season and has a 54.7% completion percentage. During his time playing Skelton has 1,058 yards passing (5.91 per pass) to go with 2 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. Skelton has been sacked 14 times. While Lindley did not make the list, its hard to expect too much from Skelton as he ranks last in ESPN&#8217;s Total QBR stat. (Yes. behind Sanchez and Brandon Weeden)<\/p>\n<p>After starting the season a surprising 4-0 the Cardinals have lost their last 8 games. Wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald said \u201cYou gotta laugh to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcardinals.com\/news-and-events\/article-2\/Struggle-In-New-York\/583141a1-971e-48b8-8c60-bef449418b93\">keep from crying<\/a>,\u201d when talking about the teams offense following the loss to the Jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ryan Lindley experiment at quarterback is over. John Skelton will start for the Arizona Cardinals in Week 14 at Seattle. Despite the struggles of Lindley, 10-of31 with a interception, the Cardinals never considered allowing Skelton to play in last weeks loss to the New York Jets. During that game the Jets replaced a struggling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","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=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}