{"id":166237,"date":"2016-03-01T14:27:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T19:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=166237"},"modified":"2016-03-01T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T19:27:54","slug":"redskins-use-non-exclusive-franchise-tag-on-quarterback-kirk-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=166237","title":{"rendered":"Redskins use non-exclusive franchise tag on quarterback Kirk Cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the Washington Redskins&#8217; season ended, general manager Scot McCloughan and coach Jay Gruden remained adamant that Kirk Cousins would be the starting quarterback in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The question quickly became a matter of how \u2014 not if \u2014 the Redskins would retain Cousins, who was set to become a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/mar\/1\/redskins-use-franchise-tag-designation-quarterback\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/mar\/1\/redskins-use-franchise-tag-designation-quarterback\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Redskins use non-exclusive franchise tag on quarterback Kirk Cousins\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the Washington Redskins&#8217; season ended, general manager Scot McCloughan and coach Jay Gruden remained adamant that Kirk Cousins would be the starting quarterback&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}