{"id":427818,"date":"2023-02-28T11:08:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T16:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427818"},"modified":"2023-02-28T11:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T16:09:53","slug":"falcons-release-quarterback-mariota-after-one-season","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/falcons-release-quarterback-mariota-after-one-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons release quarterback Mariota after one season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/atlanta-falcons\/\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> released quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/marcus-mariota\/\">Marcus Mariota<\/a> after one year, the team announced Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Falcons release QB Marcus Mariota. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aN3HZHHfcK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/aN3HZHHfcK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/1630588726769496064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We really appreciate Marcus and all the things he did while he was here,&#8221; general manager Terry Fontenot said during a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Personally, professionally, great man. We&#8217;ve had great communication with both he and his agent Ryan Tollner throughout the process, and we just believe we&#8217;re doing what&#8217;s best for the team at this time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>&#8220;But appreciate him and what he did when he was here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Mariota signed with Atlanta last offseason following two years as a backup in <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/las-vegas-raiders\/\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Falcons released quarterback Marcus Mariota after one year, the team announced Tuesday morning. Falcons release QB Marcus Mariota. pic.twitter.com\/aN3HZHHfcK &mdash; NFL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427819,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17488],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Mariota signed with Atlanta last offseason following two years as a backup in Las Vegas","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427818"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427818"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}