{"id":4686,"date":"2013-08-24T13:39:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T17:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2013-08-24T13:39:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T17:39:52","slug":"raiders-considering-terrell-pryor-as-week-1-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/08\/24\/raiders-considering-terrell-pryor-as-week-1-qb\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders considering Terrell Pryor as Week 1 QB"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Oakland Raiders are having second thoughts about starting quarterback Matt Flynn.<\/p>\n

Acquired by Oakland in the offseason the 28-year-old Flynn was considered a near lock to start at quarterback for Week 1 of the season. However, Flynn’s poor arm and underwhelming decision making during the preseason are giving the Raiders reason to turn to Terrell Pryor.<\/p>\n

Raiders head coach\u00a0 Dennis Allen said he was looking at the quarterback position following their preseason game against the Bears.<\/p>\n

“I think obviously we have to look at it. I think when you look at it I don\u2019t think Matt [Flynn] played well in this game. Obviously, I thought Terrelle [Pryor] came in and gave us a spark. I thought he played well in the game. I think that\u2019s something that we have to go and look at it. I\u2019m not going to make any decisions on anything, obviously, tonight. I want to get a chance to go back and look at the tape and see how things went. But it was obvious that Terrelle gave us a little bit of a spark tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

That does not necessarily mean the Raiders are leaning towards starting Pryor in Week 1.<\/p>\n

“Listen, I want to take a look at that, just like any other position, just like anything else we look at and I want to look at what gives us the best chance to win and that\u2019s all I\u2019m concerned about.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Raiders\u00a0 began their season on the road in Indianapolis on Sept. 8 so the Raiders coaching staff will need to make a decision quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Oakland Raiders are having second thoughts about starting quarterback Matt Flynn. Acquired by Oakland in the offseason the 28-year-old Flynn was considered a near lock to start at quarterback for Week 1 of the season. However, Flynn’s poor arm and underwhelming decision making during the preseason are giving the Raiders reason to turn to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[189,365],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-oakland-raiders","tag-terrelle-pryor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","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=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}