{"id":1294,"date":"2014-10-20T10:29:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T10:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2017-08-29T20:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:00:29","slug":"no-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2014\/10\/20\/no-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"No Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL was certainly the No Fun League for me this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets lost on Thursday to the despised New England Patriots.&nbsp; The Giants lost yesterday to the hated Dallas Cowboys.&nbsp; So not only did both of my teams go down, but they went down to their most bitter rivals, two teams I loathe.&nbsp; Gak.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets played a much better game than most expected, it must be said.&nbsp; Rex Ryan is a terrific coach, but I fear he is going to be fired at the end of this season.&nbsp; He shouldn&#39;t be.&nbsp; The fault is not his.&nbsp; The GM has simply not given him enough to work with.&nbsp; Starting at the QB position.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Jets are not going anywhere with Geno Smith or Michael Vick behind center.&nbsp; Bring back Mark Sanchez.&nbsp; Bring back Chad Pennington.&nbsp; Bring back Vinnie Testaverde.&nbsp; Hell, bring back Joe Willie Namath.&nbsp; Or maybe give Matt Simms a chance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Giants&#8230; well, losing Victor Cruz was a crippling blow.&nbsp; Though I do have high hopes for our new WR, Odell Beckham.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#39;t think this is playoff year for either of my teams.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets did make big news over the weekend by trading for Percy Harvin.&nbsp;&nbsp; He&#39;s an explosive player, and they only gave up a 6th round draft choice to get them, so that may help some.&nbsp;&nbsp; Will it help enough to save Rex Ryan&#39;s job?&nbsp; I fear not, but one can hope. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL was certainly the No Fun League for me this week. The Jets lost on Thursday to the despised New England Patriots.&nbsp; The Giants lost yesterday to the hated Dallas Cowboys.&nbsp; So not only did both of my teams go down, but they went down to their most bitter rivals, two teams I loathe.&nbsp; [&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":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294"}],"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=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}