{"id":8064,"date":"2013-12-31T21:48:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T02:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8064"},"modified":"2013-12-31T21:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T02:48:17","slug":"report-josh-freeman-missed-meetings-during-time-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/31\/report-josh-freeman-missed-meetings-during-time-in-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Josh Freeman missed meetings during time in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6223\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6223\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/joshfreeman1.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/joshfreeman1.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/joshfreeman1-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/joshfreeman1-50x36.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the most mysterious quarterback situations of 2013 was the handling of Josh Freeman by the Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings signed Freeman shortly after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers gave up on the signal caller and allowed him to start in Week 7.\u00a0Freeman was 20-of-53 for 190 yards with an interception and a sack in a loss to the New York Giants. Those numbers only begin to show how confused Freeman looked under center.<\/p>\n<p>Citing multiple sources, USA Today reports that Freeman had many of the same problems in Minnesota that he was said to have in Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;Debacle,&#8221; a Vikings player said of the quarterback situation. &#8220;When they started Josh in that Giants game, we were as confused as anybody.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Four people told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/vikings\/2013\/12\/31\/vikings-qb-josh-freeman-wasnt-ready-to-play\/4269041\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">USA TODAY<\/a> Sports that Freeman was late for numerous meetings in his roughly three months with the Vikings. A third player said Freeman often was among the last players to the facility.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Freeman will be a free agent while Frazier was fired on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most mysterious quarterback situations of 2013 was the handling of Josh Freeman by the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings signed Freeman shortly after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers gave up on the signal caller and allowed him to start in Week 7.\u00a0Freeman was 20-of-53 for 190 yards with an interception and a sack in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[392,152,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-8064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-josh-freeman","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064","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=8064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8064"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}