{"id":20929,"date":"2014-07-15T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-cowboys-to-release-qb-orton\/"},"modified":"2014-07-15T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:30:00","slug":"report-cowboys-to-release-qb-orton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-cowboys-to-release-qb-orton\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Cowboys to release QB Orton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Dallas Cowboys and Kyle Orton are parting ways.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys are releasing the backup quarterback, ESPN.com reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Orton was a no-show at Cowboys minicamp and was facing a fine of around $70,000 amid speculation that he might want a pay raise due to Tony Romo&#8217;s injury-prone history or might even retire.<\/p>\n<p>He was owed $3.25 million for the 2014 season, the final year of his contract.<\/p>\n<p>Orton, 31, started in place of Romo in the Cowboys&#8217; winner-take-all NFC East loss to Philadelphia in Week 17 last season after Romo had surgery to repair a herniated disk in his back.<\/p>\n<p>In 75 regular-season games over eight seasons with Chicago, Denver, Kansas City and Dallas, Orton has compiled a record of 35-35 with 83 touchdown passes and 59 interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Dallas Cowboys and Kyle Orton are parting ways. The Cowboys are releasing the backup quarterback, ESPN.com reported Tuesday. Last month, Orton was a no-show at Cowboys minicamp and was facing a fine of around $70,000 amid speculation that he might want a pay raise due to Tony Romo&#8217;s injury-prone history or might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[150,149,148],"class_list":["post-20929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-cowboys","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}