{"id":14514,"date":"2012-05-14T15:33:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14514"},"modified":"2012-05-14T15:39:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:39:46","slug":"bills-sign-vince-young-for-1-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14514","title":{"rendered":"Bills Sign Vince Young For 1 Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORCHARD PARK, NY &#8211; The Buffalo Bills have agreed to a one-year contract to sign free agent quarterback <strong>Vince Young<\/strong>, providing them an established backup and a bona fide threat in their wildcat formations.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the contract is worth $2 million with another $1 million available in playing-time bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>Listed at 6-foot-5 and 232 pounds, <strong>Young<\/strong> has a strong arm and also presents dual threat as a runner, a combination that has the potential of complementing head coach <strong>Chan Gailey\u2019s<\/strong> offensive attack.<\/p>\n<p>General manager <strong>Buddy Nix<\/strong> said the addition of Young will create more competition at the backup spot behind starter<strong> Ryan Fitzpatrick<\/strong>. Young will compete with returning backup<strong> Tyler Thigpen<\/strong> for the No. 2 position.<br \/>\nOverall, he has a 31-19 record in 50 career starts, with 8,964 yards passing and 1,459 yards rushing. He\u2019s thrown for 46 touchdowns while throwing 51 interceptions. He also has 12 touchdowns rushing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORCHARD PARK, NY &#8211; The Buffalo Bills have agreed to a one-year contract to sign free agent quarterback Vince Young, providing them an established backup and a bona fide threat in their wildcat formations. It is reported that the contract is worth $2 million with another $1 million available in playing-time bonuses. Listed at 6-foot-5 [&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-14514","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\/14514","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=14514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}