{"id":9784,"date":"2014-04-02T20:32:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T00:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9784"},"modified":"2014-04-02T20:32:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T00:32:56","slug":"lions-add-veteran-backup-quarterback-dan-orlovsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/04\/02\/lions-add-veteran-backup-quarterback-dan-orlovsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions add veteran backup quarterback Dan Orlovsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/danorlovsky.jpg\" alt=\"danorlovsky\" width=\"594\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/danorlovsky.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/danorlovsky-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/danorlovsky-50x31.jpg 50w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/danorlovsky-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Detroit Lions have signed veteran quarterback Dan Orlovsky to a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Murmurs of the 30-year-old&#8217;s return to Detroit began this week. With the Lions he will be listed as the teams No. 2 quarterback after the team failed to re-sign Shaun Hill.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his time with the Lions, Orlovsky is familiar with new coach Jim Caldwell who he started five games for while both were with the Indianapolis Colts.<\/p>\n<p>And of course he committed some of the most memorable plays in NFL history when he took a safety for no reason during an NFL game making one of the more memorable 30 For 30 Fakes ever.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7KsrNa2wtl0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A backup in Tampa Bay the last two seasons, Orlovsky has appeared in 21 games during his NFL career which dates back to 2005. During that span he has completed 58.5-percent of his passes for 14 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Lions have signed veteran quarterback Dan Orlovsky to a one-year contract. Murmurs of the 30-year-old&#8217;s return to Detroit began this week. With the Lions he will be listed as the teams No. 2 quarterback after the team failed to re-sign Shaun Hill. In addition to his time with the Lions, Orlovsky is familiar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[269,151,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-dan-orlovsky","tag-detroit-lions","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784","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=9784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9786,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions\/9786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9784"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}