{"id":29980,"date":"2015-02-25T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/falcons-sign-k-bryant-to-contract-extension\/"},"modified":"2015-02-25T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:13:00","slug":"falcons-sign-k-bryant-to-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/falcons-sign-k-bryant-to-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons sign K Bryant to contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flowery Branch, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Falcons signed kicker Matt Bryant to a contract extension on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant could have been an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Bryant made 29-of-32 field-goal attempts in 16 games for the Falcons last season. He also converted an NFL-best seven kicks from beyond 50 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the Falcons in 2009, Bryant has made 148-of-167 field-goal attempts (88.6 percent). He has become the second-leading scorer in franchise history, with 666 points. He&#8217;s 140 points shy of Morten Andersen&#8217;s club record of 806 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flowery Branch, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Falcons signed kicker Matt Bryant to a contract extension on Wednesday. Bryant could have been an unrestricted free agent. The 39-year-old Bryant made 29-of-32 field-goal attempts in 16 games for the Falcons last season. He also converted an NFL-best seven kicks from beyond 50 yards. Since joining 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":[18,107,108],"class_list":["post-29980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-falcons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29980","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=29980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}