{"id":30883,"date":"2015-11-23T13:22:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T17:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=30883"},"modified":"2015-11-23T13:54:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T17:54:03","slug":"new-york-jets-waive-goodbye-to-quinton-coples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2015\/11\/23\/new-york-jets-waive-goodbye-to-quinton-coples\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Wa(i)ve Goodbye to Coples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The New York Jets today announced that they have waived former first-round draft pick, outside linebacker Quinton Coples.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have waived OLB Quinton Coples.<\/p>\n<p>DETAILS- <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8Ca6uYkFCF\">https:\/\/t.co\/8Ca6uYkFCF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/668837079879704576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Just one day after Coples saw the field for only five snaps against the Houston Texans, Gang Green parted ways with the former North Carolina product.<\/p>\n<p>Coples had high hopes entering the 2015 season after averaging just 5 sacks per year through his first three pro campaigns. \u00a0However, slowly but surely his playing time dwindled and the writing was on the wall that he was not a fit for the Jets and Bowles.<\/p>\n<p>A converted defensive lineman, Coples showed potential during his rookie season in which he had 5.5 sacks playing along the interior defensive line on a limited basis before being moved to outside linebacker where he never appeared to be a natural fit.<\/p>\n<p>His 6.5 sacks last season were a career high but he leaves the Jets having not registered a single sack in 2015 while picking up just 4 tackles.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to join up and log in to our forums to discuss the Jets&#8217; decision to part ways with Coples right <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/topic\/124509-quinton-coples-waived\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Naughton &nbsp; The New York Jets today announced that they have waived former first-round draft pick, outside linebacker Quinton Coples. We have waived OLB Quinton Coples. DETAILS- https:\/\/t.co\/8Ca6uYkFCF &mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) November 23, 2015 Just one day after Coples saw the field for only five snaps against the Houston Texans, Gang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":30663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1337,213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5856.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-827","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30885,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30883\/revisions\/30885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}