{"id":334,"date":"2010-01-09T01:12:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T06:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2010\/01\/09\/nfl-wild-card-weekend-2\/"},"modified":"2010-01-09T01:12:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T06:12:52","slug":"nfl-wild-card-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2010\/01\/nfl-wild-card-weekend-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Wild Card Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturday<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Jets @ Cincinnati(-2.5)<\/em><br \/>\nI don\u2019t like this game at all. I know the Bengals were tanking it last week and Benson didn\u2019t play, but I\u2019m also not confident that they can just flip the switch. This is a coin flip, so I guess I\u2019ll take the points.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eagles @ Dallas(-3.5)<\/em><br \/>\nWow, two teams with spotty late- and post-season records. However, Romo has been absolutely on fire lately and the Eagles still have to deal with the loss of their center, which I still think is a big deal. I\u2019ll give the points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Ravens @ New England(-3.5)<\/em><br \/>\nAll the pundits are downgrading the Pats because of the loss of Welker and how badly they played the run against Houston last week. (That was quite a game, by the way.) However, Wilfork was out last week, and he\u2019s their run-stopper. I think they can overcome the loss of Welker for one game; Edelman played really well against the Texans. Also, the Pats are at home and they play much better there than on the road. I\u2019ll give the points, though I can\u2019t see how the Pats can win on the road next week.<\/p>\n<p><em>Packers @ Arizona, pick<\/em><br \/>\nSince the Vikings had won, the Cards had nothing to play for and showed nothing last week. They\u2019ll play better this time and I don\u2019t think they\u2019ll get blown out. On the other hand, the Packers\u2019 O-line has been playing better of late, their defense looks good and, most importantly, Boldin is probably out for this game. OK, that means Green Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Jets @ Cincinnati(-2.5) I don\u2019t like this game at all. I know the Bengals were tanking it last week and Benson didn\u2019t play, but I\u2019m also not confident that they can just flip the switch. This is a coin flip, so I guess I\u2019ll take the points. Eagles @ Dallas(-3.5) Wow, two teams with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2010\/01\/nfl-wild-card-weekend-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NFL Wild Card Weekend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}