{"id":8302,"date":"2014-01-09T18:50:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T23:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8302"},"modified":"2014-01-09T18:50:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T23:50:19","slug":"new-redskis-coach-says-rg3-will-be-his-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/09\/new-redskis-coach-says-rg3-will-be-his-qb\/","title":{"rendered":"New Redskis coach says RG3 will be his QB"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7177\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7177\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/griffincousins.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/griffincousins.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/griffincousins-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/griffincousins-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In what is the worst kept secret across the NFL, new Washington Redskins head coach Jay Gruden named Robert Griffin III his starting quarterback for the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobert Griffin III\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chaddukes\/status\/421409715017371648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">is the starter<\/a>,\u201d Gruden said, via Chad Dukes of 106.7 The Fan.\u00a0 \u201cThere will be no competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is hardly news considering the <a title=\"Cousins: RG3 will have input on new Redskins coach\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/04\/cousins-rg3-will-have-input-on-new-redskins-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">recent comments<\/a> of backup quarterback Kirk Cousins. Of course Cousins proved at the end of the 2013 season that he was not a starting option at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is the worst kept secret across the NFL, new Washington Redskins head coach Jay Gruden named Robert Griffin III his starting quarterback for the 2014 season. \u201cRobert Griffin III\u00a0is the starter,\u201d Gruden said, via Chad Dukes of 106.7 The Fan.\u00a0 \u201cThere will be no competition.\u201d That is hardly news considering the recent comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[216,53],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-8302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-robert-griffin-iii"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302","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=8302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8302"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}