{"id":2679,"date":"2013-07-21T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cowboys-sign-demetress-bell\/"},"modified":"2013-07-21T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T13:32:00","slug":"cowboys-sign-demetress-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cowboys-sign-demetress-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys sign Demetress Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oxnard, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Dallas Cowboys signed veteran offensive tackle Demetress Bell on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles signed Bell to a five-year contract last offseason in the aftermath of Jason Peters&#8217; Achilles injury that cost him the 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia was hoping that Bell would fill the void at left tackle, but he struggled to adapt to Philadelphia&#8217;s system.<\/p>\n<p>King Dunlap beat out Bell for the starting spot. Bell ended up playing in nine games (five starts) in 2012. He was released by Philly in February.<\/p>\n<p>Bell spent the first four years of his career with the Buffalo Bills. The 6- foot-5, 311-pounder has started 35 of the 40 career games he&#8217;s played in.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys immediately placed Bell on the active\/non-football injury list.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas also signed quarterback Alex Tanney and wide receiver Lavasier Tuinei, who was placed on the active\/non-football injury list. Guard\/center Ryan Cook, long snapper Louis-Philippe Ladouceur and guards Ronald Leary and Nate Livings landed on the same list.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Cowboys placed guard Mackenzy Bernadeau and defensive tackle Jay Ratliff on the active\/physically unable to perform list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxnard, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Dallas Cowboys signed veteran offensive tackle Demetress Bell on Sunday. The Eagles signed Bell to a five-year contract last offseason in the aftermath of Jason Peters&#8217; Achilles injury that cost him the 2012 season. Philadelphia was hoping that Bell would fill the void at left tackle, but he struggled [&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-2679","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\/2679","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=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}