{"id":14305,"date":"2015-08-31T11:55:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=14305"},"modified":"2015-08-31T11:55:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:55:49","slug":"bills-name-tyrod-taylor-starting-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/08\/31\/bills-name-tyrod-taylor-starting-qb\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills name Tyrod Taylor starting QB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_2849.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nThe Buffalo Bills had said their starting quarterback job was an open competition. On Monday the team named Tyrod Taylor their Week 1 starter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Taylor had been a back-up to Joe Flacco with the Baltimore Ravens for the last four seasons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The backfield for the Bills remains in flux. Veteran Fred Jackson was released on Monday saying the team $2.5 million. Both LeSean McCoy and Bryce Brown are dealing with hamstring injuries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, we had to make the difficult decision to release Fred Jackson,&#8221; Bills general manager Doug Whaley said in a statement. &#8220;He had an incredible career for this organization for the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thank Fred for his hard work, dedication and leadership during his tenure with the Buffalo Bills. Fred has inspired the city of Buffalo in a number of ways. Fred and his family have been dedicated to this community, and we can&#8217;t thank them enough for their contributions through his career.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills had said their starting quarterback job was an open competition. On Monday the team named Tyrod Taylor their Week 1 starter.&nbsp; Taylor had been a back-up to Joe Flacco with the Baltimore Ravens for the last four seasons.&nbsp; The backfield for the Bills remains in flux. Veteran Fred Jackson was released on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-14305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305","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=14305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14306,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305\/revisions\/14306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14305"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}