{"id":1280,"date":"2014-11-02T15:45:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2017-08-29T19:55:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:55:53","slug":"jets-crash-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2014\/11\/02\/jets-crash-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Crash Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is meaningless and full of pain.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the Jets week after week has become an exercise is masochism.<\/p>\n<p>I will grant that Michael Vick looked better today than Geno Smith has all season&#8230; but he&#39;s still not a long term answer at QB.&nbsp; Matt Simms did get to play for a couple of series, and showed some real promise, I thought.&nbsp; His numbers won&#39;t look good, but the line gave him no protection and his receivers dropped a number of balls.&nbsp; At least his passes were on target.<\/p>\n<p>This season is a lost cause.&nbsp; The worst things the Jets could do now would be to start winning.&nbsp; They don&#39;t have a prayer of making the playoffs, and every win will just push them down on the draft chart.&nbsp; Rex would do well to start Simms the rest of season.&nbsp; See if he is the answer at QB.&nbsp; Geno Smith is a bust, face it, and while Vick might win more games than Simms short term, he doesn&#39;t have enough years left.&nbsp; The Jets need a younger QB to build around.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, being a fan, I will continue to watch every game I can.&nbsp; Even if it does feel like being beaten weekly with baseball bats. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is meaningless and full of pain. Watching the Jets week after week has become an exercise is masochism. I will grant that Michael Vick looked better today than Geno Smith has all season&#8230; but he&#39;s still not a long term answer at QB.&nbsp; Matt Simms did get to play for a couple of series, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}