{"id":8031,"date":"2013-12-30T10:50:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8031"},"modified":"2013-12-30T10:50:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T15:50:24","slug":"cowboys-sean-lee-will-not-need-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/30\/cowboys-sean-lee-will-not-need-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys&#8217; Sean Lee will not need surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6755\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6755\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/seanlee.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/seanlee.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/seanlee-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/seanlee-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sean Lee was absent from the football field as the Dallas Cowboys season came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys believe that Lee will avoid surgery on his neck, an injury that occurred on Dec. 9.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;We think this is a time thing,&#8221; coach Jason Garrett said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a surgery thing.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">One of the NFL&#8217;s best linebackers, Lee has missed 15 of the Cowboys last 32 games. His presence has the ability to cover up\u00a0<\/span>porous<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0spots of\u00a0the Cowboys defense but his\u00a0<\/span>absence<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0has created a feeding frenzy for opposing teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Playing in Lee&#8217;s spot, DeVonte Holloman racked up 11 tackles and two sacks against the Eagles in the Cowboys 24-22 season ending defeat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is hardly the last Sean Lee update before training camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Lee was absent from the football field as the Dallas Cowboys season came to an end. The Cowboys believe that Lee will avoid surgery on his neck, an injury that occurred on Dec. 9. &#8220;We think this is a time thing,&#8221; coach Jason Garrett said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a surgery thing.&#8221; One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[35,91],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-8031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-sean-lee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031","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=8031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8031"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}