{"id":433240,"date":"2023-04-14T14:38:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T18:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433240"},"modified":"2023-04-14T12:34:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T16:34:13","slug":"gerald-mccoy-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/gerald-mccoy-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerald McCoy announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Buccaneers DT Gerald McCoy, 35, announced his retirement on Friday. The six-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle was a dominant defensive lineman early in his career and earned himself six-consecutive Pro Bowl nods (2012-2017) in nine seasons with the Bucs.<\/p>\n<p>The former No. 3 overall pick was named a first-team All-Pro in 2013 after generating a career-high 9.5 sacks. He also earned two second-team All-Pro nods (2014, 2016).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">THANK YOU!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NxE9K4TfJK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NxE9K4TfJK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gerald McCoy (@Geraldini93) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Geraldini93\/status\/1646862533851062272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In nine seasons with the Buccaneers, McCoy earned 54.5 sacks &#8212; fourth-most in team history &#8212; 297 tackles, 140 quarterback hits, 79 tackles for loss, six forced fumbles, four fumble recoveries and 22 passes defended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Buccaneers DT Gerald McCoy, 35, announced his retirement on Friday. The six-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle was a dominant defensive lineman early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":433241,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18796],"acf":{"announce":"He was six-time Pro Bowl nods in nine seasons in NFL","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\/433240"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433240"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433240"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}