{"id":4981,"date":"2018-10-04T07:23:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T07:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2018-10-08T03:17:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T03:17:40","slug":"nfl-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2018\/10\/04\/nfl-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I have been watching the NFL this year, when my schedule permitted it&#8230; which has not been every week, alas.<\/p>\n<p>What can I say?\u00a0 Life is cruel and full of pain.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets and their new kid quarterback looked like world-beaters in week one.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, sure, Darnold threw a pick-six on his first pass in the league, at which point I texted to my brother-in-law, &#8220;Please just kill me now.&#8221;\u00a0 But he shook it off and turned things around and for the rest of the game he looked like the second coming of Joe Willie.\u00a0\u00a0 For a whole week I had hope.<\/p>\n<p>Then the Jets played another game.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, league rules prohibit them from playing the Detroit Lions every week.\u00a0\u00a0 Against other teams, Darnold has looked like what he is &#8212; a rookie quarterback.\u00a0 And losses have followed losses.<\/p>\n<p>As for Big Blue, I really thought that last year&#8217;s record was a freakish aberration, and the addition of Saquon Barclay and the new studs on the OL would make the Giants much much better.\u00a0\u00a0 So far, that has proved utterly untrue.\u00a0\u00a0 Barclay looks as good as advertised, but the O line is still a turnstile and Eli is getting smacked in the face way too often.<\/p>\n<p>It looks to be a long long year.<\/p>\n<p>((Comments permitted ON FOOTBALL ONLY))<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4987\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SadJets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SadJets.jpg 700w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SadJets-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I have been watching the NFL this year, when my schedule permitted it&#8230; which has not been every week, alas. What can I say?\u00a0 Life is cruel and full of pain. The Jets and their new kid quarterback looked like world-beaters in week one.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, sure, Darnold threw a pick-six on his first pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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\/4981"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4998,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}