{"id":19514,"date":"2013-02-11T16:02:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T21:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19514"},"modified":"2013-02-11T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T21:03:00","slug":"anquan-boldin-says-he-will-retire-if-cut-by-ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19514","title":{"rendered":"Anquan Boldin Says He Will Retire If Cut By Ravens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Ravens star wide receiver <strong>Anquan Boldin<\/strong> indicated on Friday that he will retire if the team cuts him this offseason.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boldin<\/strong> has one year remaining on his current four-year, $25 million contract. After failing to crack the 1,000-yard plateau in his third straight year with the Ravens, the three-time Pro Bowler came on strong in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>In the Ravens\u2019 run to Super Bowl XLVII victory, <strong>Boldin<\/strong> snagged 22 passes for 380 yards in four games. His four postseason touchdowns\u2014which included the first one in the big game\u2014matched his total for the entire regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore has $15.7 million in cap space, but the team has several needs to address. Super Bowl MVP <strong>Joe Flacco<\/strong> is negotiating a long-term contract and should be among the highest-paid signal-callers in the NFL after his own remarkable playoff stretch.<\/p>\n<p>The defense has several key players who will also demand paydays, with <strong>Paul Kruger<\/strong>, <strong>Dannell Ellerbe<\/strong> and<strong> Ed Reed <\/strong>set to hit free agency. The emergence of speedy WR <strong>Torrey Smith<\/strong> and Super Bowl hero <strong>Jacoby Jones<\/strong> also hurts <strong>Boldin\u2019s<\/strong> cause to remain a Raven, as does the likely re-signing of young, dynamic TE <strong>Dennis Pitta<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The free-agent market would likely be kind to <strong>Boldin <\/strong>after his recent dominant play, but the 32-year-old seems set on remaining with his current team or hanging up the cleats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Ravens star wide receiver Anquan Boldin indicated on Friday that he will retire if the team cuts him this offseason. Boldin has one year remaining on his current four-year, $25 million contract. After failing to crack the 1,000-yard plateau in his third straight year with the Ravens, the three-time Pro Bowler came on strong [&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-19514","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\/19514","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=19514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}