{"id":22592,"date":"2014-08-25T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cassel-named-vikings-starter-over-bridgewater\/"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T12:59:00","slug":"cassel-named-vikings-starter-over-bridgewater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cassel-named-vikings-starter-over-bridgewater\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassel named Vikings starter over Bridgewater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eden Prairie, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer told the team Monday that Matt Cassel will be their starting quarterback when they take the field Sept. 7 at St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Cassel beat out rookie Teddy Bridgewater.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will hold the quarterback position to the expectation that we hold all positions. If you perform, you&#8217;ll play,&#8221; said Zimmer.<\/p>\n<p>Cassel, who began the 2013 season behind Christian Ponder, completed 60.2 percent of his passes for 1,807 yards, 11 touchdowns and nine interceptions in nine games (six starts) last season.<\/p>\n<p>The USC product completed 26-of-39 passes for 367 yards with two touchdowns, one interception and a 103.3 rating in the preseason.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater, the No. 32 overall pick from Louisville, connected on 26-of-40 passes for 266 yards with four touchdowns during the preseason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told Teddy this morning that it was not anything he did or didn&#8217;t do,&#8221; said Zimmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eden Prairie, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer told the team Monday that Matt Cassel will be their starting quarterback when they take the field Sept. 7 at St. Louis. The 32-year-old Cassel beat out rookie Teddy Bridgewater. &#8220;We will hold the quarterback position to the expectation that we hold all positions. If [&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":[72,71,73],"class_list":["post-22592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22592","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=22592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}