{"id":6470,"date":"2013-10-16T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cowboys-release-ratliff-after-failed-physical\/"},"modified":"2013-10-16T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:37:00","slug":"cowboys-release-ratliff-after-failed-physical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cowboys-release-ratliff-after-failed-physical\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys release Ratliff after failed physical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irving, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Dallas Cowboys said Wednesday they have released four-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Jay Ratliff after he failed a physical.<\/p>\n<p>Ratliff, 32, played just six games last season after injuring his groin. He had offseason surgery to repair a sports hernia.<\/p>\n<p>He collected 27 sacks and 228 tackles over eight seasons with the Cowboys, who drafted him in the seventh round in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Ratliff was arrested in January and charged with DWI after he crashed his pickup truck into an 18-wheeler. He has a trial date set for next February.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred weeks after former teammate Josh Brent was charged with manslaughter in the drunk-driving crash that killed 25-year-old Jerry Brown, Jr., a Cowboys practice squad player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irving, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Dallas Cowboys said Wednesday they have released four-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Jay Ratliff after he failed a physical. Ratliff, 32, played just six games last season after injuring his groin. He had offseason surgery to repair a sports hernia. He collected 27 sacks and 228 tackles over eight seasons [&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-6470","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\/6470","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=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}