{"id":1541,"date":"2011-09-11T11:38:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2011-09-11T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T15:38:40","slug":"football-season-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/09\/11\/football-season-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Season Already?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When&#8217;d that happen?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-AhJN4iq9i0s\/TmzVoLnQQyI\/AAAAAAAALeU\/Jqxo8l4Mobc\/s912\/giantshelmet_apple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Giants Apple\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-AhJN4iq9i0s\/TmzVoLnQQyI\/AAAAAAAALeU\/Jqxo8l4Mobc\/s912\/giantshelmet_apple.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With all the injuries (gee, that sounds familiar) the Giants aren&#8217;t being picked to win much of anything, but if there is one thing that holds true across all sports, its&#8217; that the experts are just guessing. \u00a0Maybe the unknown players will turn out to be better than expected. \u00a0Eli Manning has been getting downgraded by many off a sub-par season, so chances are he&#8217;ll out-perform what&#8217;s expected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Jets are \u00a0&#8216;world beaters, who the Giants again&#8217; story line seems to be the popular narrative this season, but the actual games rarely adhere to the stories reporters want them to. \u00a0The Giants seem to have an easy first half scheduleso perhaps they take advantage of that, reassess who&#8217;s healthy and who&#8217;s contributing, and play good football in the second half and make the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When&#8217;d that happen? With all the injuries (gee, that sounds familiar) the Giants aren&#8217;t being picked to win much of anything, but if there is one thing that holds true across all sports, its&#8217; that the experts are just guessing. \u00a0Maybe the unknown players will turn out to be better than expected. \u00a0Eli Manning has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/09\/11\/football-season-already\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Football Season Already?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1133,818],"tags":[2257,1134,2256,1135,322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}