{"id":9031,"date":"2014-02-06T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T20:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9031"},"modified":"2014-02-06T15:29:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T20:29:09","slug":"kyle-shanahan-praises-brian-hoyer-doesnt-announce-him-as-browns-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/06\/kyle-shanahan-praises-brian-hoyer-doesnt-announce-him-as-browns-starter\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Shanahan praises Brian Hoyer, doesn&#8217;t announce him as Browns starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5307\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/brianhoyer.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"458\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/brianhoyer.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/brianhoyer-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/brianhoyer-50x38.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nNew Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan said he was a &#8220;big fan&#8221; of incumbent quarterback Brian Hoyer but stopped well short of naming him the teams starter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Brian\u2019s a very capable guy,\u201d Shanahan said at his press conference, via <a href=\"http:\/\/espncleveland.com\/common\/more.php?m=49&#038;post_id=28351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN<\/a>. \u201cEveryone\u2019s looking for one of those top five guys. If you\u2019re not one of those top five guys, then odds are you\u2019re trying to get replaced. Obviously, no one here has proven they are one of those top five guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hoyer performed well in his short stint at the Browns quarterback but his season was cut short due to an ACL tear. All signs point to the Browns drafting a quarterback as they have two first round picks in the 2014 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he [Hoyer] has shown he can play in this league. You\u2019ve got to see what his ceiling is and how high a level he can reach. Everyone wants a franchise quarterback. I truly believe that\u2019s the only way to have sustained success in this league. I\u2019m not saying he is. But he hasn\u2019t shown that he can\u2019t be. So I\u2019m looking forward to studying him more. It\u2019s nice to be in this building so I can look at a lot of practice tape, also.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan said he was a &#8220;big fan&#8221; of incumbent quarterback Brian Hoyer but stopped well short of naming him the teams starter. \u201cI think Brian\u2019s a very capable guy,\u201d Shanahan said at his press conference, via ESPN. \u201cEveryone\u2019s looking for one of those top five guys. If you\u2019re not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[203,139,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","9":"tag-cleveland-browns","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031","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=9031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9031"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}