{"id":6348,"date":"2020-07-31T08:38:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T14:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2020-07-27T17:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T23:39:21","slug":"its-not-easy-being-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2020\/07\/31\/its-not-easy-being-green\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Easy Being Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is hard when you&#8217;re a Jets fan.<\/p>\n<p>Kermit knows the truth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Muppet Show: Kermit - &quot;Bein&#039; Green&quot;\" width=\"573\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z4ZxxHbJGbY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The New York Jets, having not won a SuperBowl since 1969 or been in the playoffs since 2010, often have very high draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes they select a bust.\u00a0 In those cases, the players are cut.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, however, they get a really terrific premium talent, the kind of generational player you can build a contender around.\u00a0 In those cases, the Jets get a few years out of the player&#8230; and THEN trade him away.<\/p>\n<p>For more draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>Which they then use to select more players, who will either be busts, or terrific players.<\/p>\n<p>Who will then be traded away.<\/p>\n<p>For more draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>Darrell Revis. \u00a0 Chad Pennington. \u00a0 And now Jamal Adams.<\/p>\n<p>If Sam Darnold turns out to be a franchise quarterback, an All Pro player, a future Hall of Famer&#8230; one wonders where they will send him, and what draft picks we&#8217;ll get.<\/p>\n<p>If he turns out to be a bust, of course, we&#8217;ll keep him&#8230; just until we draft the next franchise quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Jets.\u00a0\u00a0 Building For The Future Since 1969.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is hard when you&#8217;re a Jets fan. Kermit knows the truth. The New York Jets, having not won a SuperBowl since 1969 or been in the playoffs since 2010, often have very high draft picks. Sometimes they select a bust.\u00a0 In those cases, the players are cut. Sometimes, however, they get a really terrific [&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\/6348"}],"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=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6350,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions\/6350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}