{"id":13836,"date":"2012-04-09T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13836"},"modified":"2012-04-09T15:33:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:33:25","slug":"bucs-rb-blount-can-count-on-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13836","title":{"rendered":"Bucs RB Blount Can Count On Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buccaneers RB <strong>LeGarrette Blount<\/strong> seems to be concerned that his days of having a firm hold on the featured-back job in Tampa could be limited.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach<strong> Greg Schiano<\/strong> wants to see greater competition for reps, including at <strong>Blount\u2019s<\/strong> position, and that apparently isn\u2019t sitting well with the third-year back, who signed his exclusive-rights free-agent tender Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blount<\/strong> told CBS Sports at the NFL\u2019s unveiling of its new Nike uniforms this week that he would not be happy if the Bucs spent the fifth overall pick in this year\u2019s draft on the top back available \u2014 Alabama\u2019s <strong>Trent Richardson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buccaneers RB LeGarrette Blount seems to be concerned that his days of having a firm hold on the featured-back job in Tampa could be limited. Head coach Greg Schiano wants to see greater competition for reps, including at Blount\u2019s position, and that apparently isn\u2019t sitting well with the third-year back, who signed his exclusive-rights free-agent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}