{"id":9956,"date":"2014-04-22T19:38:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T23:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9956"},"modified":"2014-04-22T19:38:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T23:38:20","slug":"contact-talks-between-chiefs-and-qb-alex-smith-moving-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/04\/22\/contact-talks-between-chiefs-and-qb-alex-smith-moving-slowly\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact talks between Chiefs and QB Alex Smith moving slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9005\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9005\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/alexsmith.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/alexsmith.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/alexsmith-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/alexsmith-50x36.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs went from awful to playoffs in one season thanks to the additions of a new head coach in Andy Reid and a new quarterback in Alex Smith. Naturally the Chiefs want to keep Smith around for the future but that will require \u00a0a new deal.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2014\/04\/22\/alex-smith-talks-going-slow-could-pick-up-after-the-draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pro Football Talk&#8217;s<\/a> Mike Florio talks between Smith and the Chiefs are moving &#8220;very, very slowly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A new deal for Smith is expected to fall in the $14 to $17 million range and while Smith has been in the NFL for almost a decade he will not turn 30 until May.<\/p>\n<p>Once Smith appeared destined to be on a list of first round busts but lately the quarterback has been breaking out. Soon it will be the Chiefs who break out the checkbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs went from awful to playoffs in one season thanks to the additions of a new head coach in Andy Reid and a new quarterback in Alex Smith. Naturally the Chiefs want to keep Smith around for the future but that will require \u00a0a new deal. According to Pro Football Talk&#8217;s Mike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[149,426,104,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-alex-smith","tag-front","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956","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=9956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9957,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions\/9957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9956"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}