{"id":30569,"date":"2015-03-10T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bills-acquire-qb-cassel-from-vikings\/"},"modified":"2015-03-10T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T20:19:00","slug":"bills-acquire-qb-cassel-from-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bills-acquire-qb-cassel-from-vikings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills acquire QB Cassel from Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orchard Park, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Buffalo Bills acquired quarterback Matt Cassel from the Minnesota Vikings on Tuesday, completing a trade that was announced last week but couldn&#8217;t be made official until the start of the new league year.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo said only that it acquired Cassel and an undisclosed draft pick from the Vikings in exchange for undisclosed draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>The busy Bills also announced the acquisition of former NFL rushing champion LeSean McCoy from the Philadelphia Eagles after the new league year began at 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cassel, 32, started the Vikings&#8217; first three games last season before breaking several bones in his left foot against the New Orleans Saints on Sept. 21. He was placed on injured reserve three days later.<\/p>\n<p>He has completed 59 percent of his passes for 15,727 yards with 96 touchdowns and 70 interceptions in his 10-year NFL career. He has started 71 games for New England, Kansas City and Minnesota since 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchard Park, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Buffalo Bills acquired quarterback Matt Cassel from the Minnesota Vikings on Tuesday, completing a trade that was announced last week but couldn&#8217;t be made official until the start of the new league year. Buffalo said only that it acquired Cassel and an undisclosed draft pick from the Vikings in [&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":[83,82,81,72,71,73],"class_list":["post-30569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bills","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30569","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=30569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}