{"id":221,"date":"2013-03-05T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/browns-name-lombardi-gm-hire-ray-farmer-as-assistant-gm\/"},"modified":"2013-03-05T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T15:26:00","slug":"browns-name-lombardi-gm-hire-ray-farmer-as-assistant-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/browns-name-lombardi-gm-hire-ray-farmer-as-assistant-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns name Lombardi GM; hire Ray Farmer as assistant GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) &#8211; The Cleveland Browns hired Ray Farmer as assistant General Manager on Tuesday and named Vice President-Player Personnel Michael Lombardi the team&#8217;s General Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Farmer will work closely with Lombardi in helping manage both the professional and college scouting departments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ray is highly regarded in league circles as an outstanding evaluator of talent,&#8221; Browns CEO Joe Banner said. &#8220;We had the opportunity to meet with Ray in our initial search for a general manager and came away extremely impressed. I have known Ray since he played with us in Philadelphia, and I am familiar with the type of person he is, his work ethic and his knowledge of the game. We are very fortunate that we were able to add someone of Ray&#8217;s caliber to our personnel staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Farmer spent the last seven seasons in Kansas City, where he was the Chiefs&#8217; Director of Pro Personnel. Prior to joining the Chiefs, Farmer was a pro scout for the Atlanta Falcons from 2002-05.<\/p>\n<p>Farmer played three seasons at linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles (1996-98) and appeared in just 32 games, including 16 starts, before a knee injury ended his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) &#8211; The Cleveland Browns hired Ray Farmer as assistant General Manager on Tuesday and named Vice President-Player Personnel Michael Lombardi the team&#8217;s General Manager. Farmer will work closely with Lombardi in helping manage both the professional and college scouting departments. &#8220;Ray is highly regarded in league circles as an outstanding evaluator [&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":[77,54,76],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-browns","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}