{"id":51936,"date":"2016-02-19T20:18:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T03:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=51936"},"modified":"2016-02-19T22:07:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T05:07:13","slug":"rams-cut-long-laurinaitis-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=51936","title":{"rendered":"Rams Cut Long, Laurinaitis, Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_51944\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=51944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51944\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51944\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51944\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/laurinaitis.jpg\" alt=\"LB James Laurinaitis is one of three players cut by the Rams \" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LB James Laurinaitis is one of three players cut by the Rams<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>In a cost cutting move the Los Angeles Rams\u00a0cut\u00a0defensive end Chris Long, middle\u00a0linebacker James Laurinaitis and tight end Jared Cook Friday.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>By releasing the trio\u00a0the Rams will\u00a0save about $24 million in cap space. The moves could\u00a0also help\u00a0the Rams sign their own free agents\u00a0including cornerbacks\u00a0Janoris Jenkins and Trumaine Johnson. Safeties Rodney\u00a0McLeod and Mark Barron are\u00a0up for free agency as well.<\/p>\n<p>Long had his best seasons between 2010 and 2013 when he posted 41.5 sacks, fifth best among defensive linemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson In a cost cutting move the Los Angeles Rams\u00a0cut\u00a0defensive end Chris Long, middle\u00a0linebacker James Laurinaitis and tight end Jared Cook Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[957,11644,11641,7311,7153,11643,92,11642],"class_list":["post-51936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-news-notes-around-professional-football","tag-chris-long","tag-james-laurinaitis","tag-janrois-jenkins","tag-jared-cook","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-mark-barron","tag-nfl","tag-rodney-mcleod"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51936"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51947,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51936\/revisions\/51947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}