{"id":9835,"date":"2014-04-09T15:09:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T19:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9835"},"modified":"2014-04-09T15:09:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T19:09:37","slug":"saints-gm-champ-bailey-will-play-cornerback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/04\/09\/saints-gm-champ-bailey-will-play-cornerback\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints GM: Champ Bailey will play cornerback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6926\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/champbailey.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/champbailey.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/champbailey-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/champbailey-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nNew Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis said that Champ Bailey was signed to play cornerback.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey, 35, will be the No. 2 corner on the Saints while Keenan Lewis will shadow the top wideouts on opposing teams.<\/p>\n<p>While a free agent Bailey expressed a willingness to play safety but that is not why he was brought to the Saints.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Loomis said they intend to only play Champ Bailey at CB. &quot;You always have a need for good players and that&#39;s a valuable position.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Larry Holder (@LarryHolder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarryHolder\/statuses\/453953679104552960\">April 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While Bailey may have declined, many are expecting him to have a bounce back season in  New Orleans. <\/p>\n<p>Bailey was given a two-year deal which could be worth as much as $7 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis said that Champ Bailey was signed to play cornerback. Bailey, 35, will be the No. 2 corner on the Saints while Keenan Lewis will shadow the top wideouts on opposing teams. While a free agent Bailey expressed a willingness to play safety but that is not why he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[394,426,38,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-champ-bailey","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-new-orleans-saints","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835","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=9835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9836,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835\/revisions\/9836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9835"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}