{"id":5109,"date":"2013-09-13T11:03:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T15:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2013-09-13T11:03:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T15:03:17","slug":"josh-freeman-overslept-missing-buccaneers-team-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/09\/13\/josh-freeman-overslept-missing-buccaneers-team-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Freeman overslept missing Buccaneers team photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Group photos do not always look the best but they do symbolize everyone being together and on the same team.<\/p>\n

While Josh Freeman may no longer be a captain on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers his absence from the photo is telling. Even if the Buccaneers quarterback says he missed the photo because he overslept.<\/p>\n

“Basically I overslept,” Freeman explained to NFL.com<\/a>. “Point blank.”<\/p>\n

The quarterback then went on to defend Vincent Jackson being chosen as a team captain over him.<\/p>\n

“I think Vincent Jackson deserves every bit of the captain spot,” Freeman said. “I feel like the talk about me not being a captain kind of takes away from the honor of those guys being captains. Do I want to be captain? Yeah, sure. But it’s not something that’s going to make or break anyone.”<\/p>\n

In addition to Freeman losing his captain spot after three years, Tampa Bay drafted quarter Mike Glennon in the third round of this years draft. Unless Freeman is unable to orchestrate a win on Sunday his time under center may be over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Group photos do not always look the best but they do symbolize everyone being together and on the same team. While Josh Freeman may no longer be a captain on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers his absence from the photo is telling. Even if the Buccaneers quarterback says he missed the photo because he overslept. “Basically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[392,188],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-5109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-josh-freeman","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109","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=5109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5109"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}