{"id":276,"date":"2017-11-21T21:46:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2017-11-21T21:46:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:46:19","slug":"falcons-agree-to-terms-on-extensions-with-upshaw-schaub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/falcons-agree-to-terms-on-extensions-with-upshaw-schaub\/","title":{"rendered":"FALCONS AGREE TO TERMS ON EXTENSIONS WITH UPSHAW, SCHAUB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Falcons agreed to terms on contract extensions with quarterback\u00a0<a class=\"player-card-tooltip\" title=\"Matt Schaub\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantafalcons.com\/team\/roster\/matt-schaub\/ad69d738-1835-4ade-a938-70873a7d8717\/\" rel=\"\/cda-web\/person-card-module.htm?mode=data&amp;id=ad69d738-1835-4ade-a938-70873a7d8717\" rev=\"player\">Matt Schaub<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atlantafalcons.com\/assets\/nflimg\/icon-article-link.gif\" \/><\/a>\u00a0and defensive tackle\u00a0<a class=\"player-card-tooltip\" title=\"Courtney Upshaw\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantafalcons.com\/team\/roster\/courtney-upshaw\/5de0d442-389a-4284-9c7b-50bf1e0e8cd4\/\" rel=\"\/cda-web\/person-card-module.htm?mode=data&amp;id=5de0d442-389a-4284-9c7b-50bf1e0e8cd4\" rev=\"player\">Courtney Upshaw<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atlantafalcons.com\/assets\/nflimg\/icon-article-link.gif\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan we laid out for this offseason begins with re-signing our own players, and we are fortunate to get deals done with Courtney and Matt this morning,\u201d said general manager Thomas Dimitroff. \u201cCourtney proved to be versatile in our defensive scheme and he will continue to play several roles along our defensive line. We know the value of having an experienced back-up at quarterback and Ryan and Schaub work well together so it was important to keep that tandem together.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantafalcons.com\/news\/blog\/article-1\/Falcons-Agree-to-Terms-on-Extensions-With-Upshaw-Schaub\/0b762043-2fa1-4b83-985c-f4c820982094\">Click here for full article\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Falcons agreed to terms on contract extensions with quarterback\u00a0Matt Schaub\u00a0and defensive tackle\u00a0Courtney Upshaw. \u201cThe plan we laid out for this offseason begins with re-signing our own players, and we are fortunate to get deals done with Courtney and Matt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/falcons-agree-to-terms-on-extensions-with-upshaw-schaub\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattschaub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}