{"id":4867,"date":"2013-09-04T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T14:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2013-09-04T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T14:47:04","slug":"e-j-manuel-will-start-week-1-for-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/09\/04\/e-j-manuel-will-start-week-1-for-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"E.J. Manuel will start Week 1 for Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4819\" alt=\"ejmanuel\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/ejmanuel.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/ejmanuel.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/ejmanuel-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/ejmanuel-50x35.jpg 50w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/ejmanuel-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Buffalo Bills will enter Sunday&#8217;s match-up against the New England Patriots as underdogs regardless of who starts.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday the Bills announced that it will be first-round draft pick E.J. Manuel under center for the tams first game of the year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Bills announce that EJ Manuel will start at quarterback against New England on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlbertBreer\/statuses\/375232653336657922\">September 4, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Manuel has had knee concerns for the past two weeks he had always seemed to be the logical starter. The Bill believe Manuel&#8217;s knee is good to go for Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Tuel, an undrafted rookie, will back up Manuel.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots defense figures to be a-lot to take it for Manuel who was 26-for-33 for 199 yards and two touchdowns during preseason play. Buffalo may have to opt for a run heavy attack even if they find themselves in a large hole early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills will enter Sunday&#8217;s match-up against the New England Patriots as underdogs regardless of who starts. On Wednesday the Bills announced that it will be first-round draft pick E.J. Manuel under center for the tams first game of the year. Bills announce that EJ Manuel will start at quarterback against New England on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[131,387],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-4867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-e-j-manuel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","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=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}