{"id":154,"date":"2008-12-04T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2008-12-04T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T16:45:00","slug":"week-fourteen-thursday-night-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Week Fourteen, Thursday Night Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not gonna be near a computer much for the rest of the day and I&#8217;m not finishing my week fourteen picks until I know a few things (like whether Minnesota&#8217;s gonna be able to field a defense), so here&#8217;s what little I&#8217;ve got to say about this ridiculous Thursday night game. I&#8217;ll follow up with the rest of my picks later.<\/p>\n<p><b>Oakland (+9.5) at San Diego<\/b><br \/>The Chargers may be a disappointment (to some, that is; their ineptitude in year two under Norv Turner has neither surprised nor disappointed me), but the Raiders are once again one of the worst teams in the NFL. That&#8217;s no surprise either. And at this point the Raiders are only disappointing in that it&#8217;s hard to believe the league tolerates such poor organizational management in an era in which it&#8217;s attempting to promote the concept of competitive balance. (Then again, the Detroit Lions have been taking bad management to new levels for decades.) I won&#8217;t be enduring this game in any bigger way than I endured Monday night&#8217;s snoozer. It&#8217;ll be on, yes, but I&#8217;ll be &#8230; let&#8217;s just say multitasking. Chargers win 17-9.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/?p=154\" send=\"false\" layout=\"button_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Week+Fourteen%2C+Thursday+Night+Pick+http%3A%2F%2Fthisfootballblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D154\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Week+Fourteen%2C+Thursday+Night+Pick+http%3A%2F%2Fthisfootballblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D154\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not gonna be near a computer much for the rest of the day and I&#8217;m not finishing my week fourteen picks until I know a few things (like whether Minnesota&#8217;s gonna be able to field a defense), so here&#8217;s what little I&#8217;ve got to say about this ridiculous Thursday night game. I&#8217;ll follow up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}