{"id":269,"date":"2011-12-08T13:04:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2011-12-08T13:04:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T17:04:07","slug":"week-fourteen-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Week Fourteen, Thursday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m not gonna get all my picks done before tonight&#8217;s exciting AFC North matchup kicks off (though given what a compelling game it&#8217;s almost certain not to be, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be able to finish the rest while I sort of watch), so here&#8217;s my take on that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cleveland (+14) at Pittsburgh<\/strong><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s what you need to know about this game: Cleveland doesn&#8217;t score much (the Browns have averaged just better than 14 points a game so far this season. Pittsburgh&#8217;s D is among the best in the league at keeping opponents off the board (they&#8217;ve given up an average of just 16.3 points per game so far this season). The Steelers are neck-and-neck with the Ravens in a race for the AFC North crown, in which the winner probably gets a first-round by and may get home field through the playoffs, and the loser gets the near certainty of having to play all of its post-season games on the road. And the Browns defense couldn&#8217;t stop a one-legged dachshund with one bad eye and one blind eye from rushing for 150 yards. That&#8217;s the long way of saying this game is a disaster waiting to happen. Steelers by 20.<\/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=269\" 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+http%3A%2F%2Fthisfootballblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D269\" 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+http%3A%2F%2Fthisfootballblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D269\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m not gonna get all my picks done before tonight&#8217;s exciting AFC North matchup kicks off (though given what a compelling game it&#8217;s almost certain not to be, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be able to finish the rest while I sort of watch), so here&#8217;s my take on that. Cleveland (+14) at Pittsburgh Here&#8217;s what [&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-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}