{"id":432541,"date":"2023-04-02T15:10:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T19:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432541"},"modified":"2023-04-02T12:12:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T16:12:25","slug":"darius-slay-almost-joins-baltimore-ravens","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/darius-slay-almost-joins-baltimore-ravens\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Slay almost joins Baltimore Ravens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/darius-slay\/\">Darius Slay<\/a> said he was nearly signing with <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/baltimore-ravens\/\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a> before staying with <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/philadelphia-eagles\/\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Everything indicated last month that Darius would not return to the Eagles&#8217; roster next season, and he was allowed by the franchise to look for a trade before the beginning of the free agency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eagles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Eagles<\/a> All-Pro cornerback Darius Slay says the Baltimore <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ravens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Ravens<\/a> were the first team to call him and gave him the perfect offer:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis close, a Baltimore Raven, I was this close, this close. But, you know I wanted to be an Eagle, I stayed an Eagle\u201c<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vcmHaxpud4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vcmHaxpud4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLFootball (@_MLFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_MLFootball\/status\/1642516066646597634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, the Pro Bowler cornerback ended up with a new 3 years contract with Philadelphia in which he will earn 42 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/baltimore-ravens\/\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a> were the first team that called,&#8221; Slay said. &#8220;They offered just what I wanted. I said, &#8216;If the Eagles do that, I will stay an Eagle.&#8217; It was nice now. I was almost a Raven.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darius Slay said he was nearly signing with Baltimore Ravens before staying with Philadelphia Eagles. Everything indicated last month that Darius would not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432542,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17241,18179,17324,17123],"news_category":[16703,14084],"gn_keywords":[18573,18181,17873,18180],"acf":{"announce":"The cornerback Slay said that he almost joined Ravens in the offseason.","video":["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\/432541"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432541"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432541"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}