{"id":5455,"date":"2013-09-25T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bucs-set-to-make-qb-switch\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T02:40:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T02:40:09","slug":"bucs-set-to-make-qb-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bucs-set-to-make-qb-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs&#8217; benching of Freeman &#8216;performance-based&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; Looking to jump-start a sluggish offense, Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano has decided to bench quarterback Josh Freeman in favor of rookie Mike Glennon.<\/p>\n<p>Schiano called it a &#8220;performance-based&#8221; decision during his press conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman has struggled with the Bucs off to an 0-3 start. He has completed just 45.7 percent of his passes for 571 yards with two touchdowns and three interceptions. His quarterback rating of 59.3 is the worst in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>According to Schiano, Glennon gives the Buccaneers the &#8220;best chance to win today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Glennon was selected in the third round of April&#8217;s draft after a standout career at North Carolina State. He threw 31 touchdown passes in each of his two seasons as a starter with the Wolfpack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Mike Glennon is Mike Glennon,&#8221; Schiano said. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s going to help us win a lot of games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay, which has lost eight of nine dating back to last season, welcomes Arizona to town on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; Looking to jump-start a sluggish offense, Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano has decided to bench quarterback Josh Freeman in favor of rookie Mike Glennon. Schiano called it a &#8220;performance-based&#8221; decision during his press conference on Wednesday. Freeman has struggled with the Bucs off to an 0-3 start. He has [&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":[68,67,66],"class_list":["post-5455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-buccaneers","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455","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=5455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5495,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions\/5495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}