{"id":24733,"date":"2014-10-20T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mccoy-will-start-in-week-8-if-rg3-isnt-ready\/"},"modified":"2014-10-20T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:32:00","slug":"mccoy-will-start-in-week-8-if-rg3-isnt-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mccoy-will-start-in-week-8-if-rg3-isnt-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"McCoy will start in Week 8 if RG3 isn&#8217;t ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashburn, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Washington Redskins head coach Jay Gruden named Colt McCoy as the team&#8217;s starter for next Monday night&#8217;s game at Dallas, but there is a chance that Robert Griffin III will make his return.<\/p>\n<p>McCoy replaced an ineffective Kirk Cousins at halftime during Sunday&#8217;s 19-17 win against Tennessee and led the squad down the field for Kai Forbath&#8217;s game- winning field goal as time expired.<\/p>\n<p>McCoy, who is 6-15 in his career as a starter, was 11-of-12 for 128 yards and a touchdown in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Cousins was 10-of-16 for 139 yards with an interception over the first 30 minutes. He has thrown 10 touchdown passes and nine interceptions in six games &#8212; five starts &#8212; this season.<\/p>\n<p>Gruden stated that Griffin&#8217;s &#8220;got to be 100 percent&#8221; in order to go next Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t rule him out. But he&#8217;s still got a long way to go,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin dislocated his ankle early in the first quarter of Washington&#8217;s Week 2 game against Jacksonville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashburn, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Washington Redskins head coach Jay Gruden named Colt McCoy as the team&#8217;s starter for next Monday night&#8217;s game at Dallas, but there is a chance that Robert Griffin III will make his return. McCoy replaced an ineffective Kirk Cousins at halftime during Sunday&#8217;s 19-17 win against Tennessee and led the squad [&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":[96,95,94],"class_list":["post-24733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-redskins","tag-washington","tag-washington-redskins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24733","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=24733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}