{"id":272,"date":"2011-12-15T21:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T01:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2011-12-15T21:18:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T01:18:03","slug":"week-fifteen-thursday-night-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Week Fifteen, Thursday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not gonna get to the full raft of games before tonight&#8217;s game kicks off (in, like, five minutes). So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got for the nonce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jacksonville (+11) at Atlanta<\/strong><br \/>\nYeah, I guess the Jaguars did look pretty good <a title=\"Buccanneers at Jaguars\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/gamecenter\/2011121108\/2011\/REG14\/buccaneers@jaguars#menu=highlights&amp;tab=recap\" target=\"_blank\">beating up on the Buccaneers<\/a> on Sunday. That&#8217;s nice and all, but I&#8217;m not sure it translates in any way to traveling (not far, but still) on a short week and finding a way to compete with an actual, playoff-contending NFL football team. <a title=\"Matt Ryan at NFL.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/player\/mattryan\/310\/profile\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Ryan<\/a> isn&#8217;t the league&#8217;s best quarterback, but he&#8217;s got a great football head and he knows how to control the game at the line of scrimmage. Against a defense like Jacksonville&#8217;s, which shows you exactly what you&#8217;re going to get, that&#8217;s a powerful weapon to have. Too powerful for the Jags to overcome. Falcons by 17.<\/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=272\" 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+Fifteen%2C+Thursday+Night+http%3A%2F%2Fthisfootballblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D272\" 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+Fifteen%2C+Thursday+Night+http%3A%2F%2Fthisfootballblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D272\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not gonna get to the full raft of games before tonight&#8217;s game kicks off (in, like, five minutes). So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got for the nonce. Jacksonville (+11) at Atlanta Yeah, I guess the Jaguars did look pretty good beating up on the Buccaneers on Sunday. That&#8217;s nice and all, but I&#8217;m not sure it [&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-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}