{"id":688,"date":"2008-01-13T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=688"},"modified":"2008-01-13T15:14:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T21:14:54","slug":"a-good-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"A Good Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My NFL team is the Green Bay Packers, for a variety of reasons. But I try to like the Falcons as well, since I grew up with them. That they&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/news;_ylt=AtnmcaV9kDz7yJOPJHEu.Ms5nYcB?slug=ap-falcons-dimitroff&#038;prov=ap&#038;type=lgns\">hired<\/a> New England&#8217;s scouting director as GM is the first piece of good news I&#8217;ve heard about this team since Arthur Blank bought them. Now if we can just get a coach who is not a conceited dickhead (Parcells) or a job-jumping scoundrel (Petrino), we&#8217;ll be in good shape.<\/p>\n<p>The draft is going to reveal a lot about where this team is going. If they reach and draft a QB in the first round, they have no idea what they are doing. They can take Brohm or Brennan in a later round and be set. If they take Jake Long or somebody to build from the lines, they&#8217;re in good shape.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My NFL team is the Green Bay Packers, for a variety of reasons. But I try to like the Falcons as well, since I grew up with them. That they&#8217;ve hired New England&#8217;s scouting director as GM is the first piece of good news I&#8217;ve heard about this team since Arthur Blank bought them. Now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=688\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Good Step<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-b6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}