{"id":375,"date":"2013-12-05T17:01:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T21:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2013-12-05T17:01:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T21:01:13","slug":"week-fourteen-thursday-night-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Week Fourteen, Thursday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damned near forgot there was a game tonight. Because, yeah, it&#8217;s exactly that compelling. Here&#8217;s what not not even anyone in Jacksonville or Houston cares whether they should or shouldn&#8217;t expect. (Ugh.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong><a title=\"Houston Texans web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.houstontexans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><\/strong> (-3) <strong>at <strong><a title=\"Jacksonville Jaguars web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jaguars.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>The Texans are <em>supposed<\/em> to be a better team than the Jaguars. Statistically speaking, the Texans mostly <em>are<\/em> a better team than the Jaguars (except that they&#8217;re way worse at taking the ball away from opponents, which is largely because they&#8217;re worse at that than every team in the league other than the Jets). But in reality, the Texans aren&#8217;t a better team than the Jaguars. <a title=\"Jacksonville Jaguars at Houston Texans, November 24, 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/gamecenter\/2013112404\/2013\/REG12\/jaguars@texans?icampaign=GC_schedule_rr#menu=highlights&amp;tab=recap\" target=\"_blank\">Not at all<\/a>. Here&#8217;s how I know. And I&#8217;m taking the home team that should be worse to beat the road team that should be better. But I won&#8217;t find out whether I got it right until Friday morning, because, really, I have much better things to do tonight. Don&#8217;t you? Jacksonville by a field goal.<\/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=375\" 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%3D375\" 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%3D375\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damned near forgot there was a game tonight. Because, yeah, it&#8217;s exactly that compelling. Here&#8217;s what not not even anyone in Jacksonville or Houston cares whether they should or shouldn&#8217;t expect. (Ugh.) Houston (-3) at Jacksonville The Texans are supposed to be a better team than the Jaguars. Statistically speaking, the Texans mostly are a [&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-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisfootballblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}