{"id":26334,"date":"2014-11-25T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/broncos-sign-k-barth-waive-mcmanus\/"},"modified":"2014-11-25T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:00:00","slug":"broncos-sign-k-barth-waive-mcmanus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/broncos-sign-k-barth-waive-mcmanus\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos sign K Barth, waive McManus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Englewood, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Denver Broncos signed former Buccaneers kicker Connor Barth and waived kicker Brandon McManus on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>McManus took over kicking duties after the team cut Matt Prater, a Pro Bowler last year. The Temple product struggled at times and was 9-of-13 on field goal attempts for the Broncos this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old McManus, who was acquired in a trade before the season, missed a 33-yard field goal attempt during Sunday&#8217;s 39-36 victory over Miami. That proved to be the final straw for McManus.<\/p>\n<p>Barth last played in the NFL for the Buccaneers in 2012, when he converted 28- of-33 field goal attempts. He missed the 2013 season after tearing his Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n<p>After starting his career in Kansas City, Barth spent four years in Tampa Bay, attempting 108 kicks in 56 games, making 91 of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Englewood, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Denver Broncos signed former Buccaneers kicker Connor Barth and waived kicker Brandon McManus on Tuesday. McManus took over kicking duties after the team cut Matt Prater, a Pro Bowler last year. The Temple product struggled at times and was 9-of-13 on field goal attempts for the Broncos this season. The [&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":[127,126,125],"class_list":["post-26334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-broncos","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26334","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=26334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}