{"id":358,"date":"2013-10-24T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T19:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2013-10-24T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T19:46:10","slug":"week-eight-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Week Eight, Thursday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t even know up from down right now. That&#8217;s how busy I am. So I&#8217;ve got one really pointless pick to offer at the moment, and it&#8217;s really, really, really what not to expect.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong><a title=\"Carolina Panthers web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.panthers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina<\/a><\/strong> (-6) <strong>at <strong title=\"Tampa Bay Buccanneers web site\"><a title=\"Tampa Bay Buccanneers web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buccaneers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>I don&#8217;t think you can even call this a home game for the Bucs right now. They&#8217;re unraveling. The fans in Tampa are <a title=\"Fire Schiano\" href=\"http:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2013\/10\/24\/tampa-radio-station-buys-19-fire-schiano-billboards\/\" target=\"_blank\">fed up and looking for a change<\/a>. It&#8217;s hard to imagine a stadium full of noisy Buccaneers fans unnerving the Panthers at this point, isn&#8217;t it? Meanwhile Carolina is surging a bit and the Panthers probably feel like they&#8217;ve still got a chance to battle their way into the postseason. They don&#8217;t, but that doesn&#8217;t matter. They&#8217;ll come out on top in this game, probably by significantly more than six. Maybe as much as three times that.<\/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=358\" 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+Eight%2C+Thursday+Night+http%3A%2F%2Fthisfootballblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D358\" 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+Eight%2C+Thursday+Night+http%3A%2F%2Fthisfootballblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D358\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t even know up from down right now. That&#8217;s how busy I am. So I&#8217;ve got one really pointless pick to offer at the moment, and it&#8217;s really, really, really what not to expect. Carolina (-6) at Tampa Bay I don&#8217;t think you can even call this a home game for the Bucs right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}