{"id":16821,"date":"2012-09-08T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T05:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16821"},"modified":"2014-05-09T14:25:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:25:42","slug":"split-decision-from-the-two-scotts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/08\/split-decision-from-the-two-scotts\/","title":{"rendered":"Split decision from the two Scotts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Viking_Head.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Viking_Head\" width=\"80\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10672\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2012\/09\/07\/nfl-picks-week-1-are-you-ready-for-are-you-ready-for-some-football\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Reid and Scott Feschuk<\/a> are doing their weekly NFL picks again this season. To my surprise\/shock\/horror, they have the Minnesota-Jacksonville game as the &#8220;Sure Thing&#8221;. Fortunately, they disagree on which &#8220;sure thing&#8221; is really the &#8220;sure thing&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Jacksonville (plus 3.5) at Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reid<\/strong>: You ever notice that Christian Ponder\u2019s Christian name is Christian? Imagine if his surname was Sur. That would totally rock! But here\u2019s my point: Christian Ponder always conjures to my mind the image of a pilgrim. You know, the kind with belt buckles on their hats who casually persecute Indians and run around drowning hysterical teenage girls. They\u2019re better known these days as Republicans. You know what <em>doesn\u2019t<\/em> come to mind when you\u2019re thinking about Minnesota\u2019s Cotton Mather? Touchdown completions.<\/p>\n<p>Fact is that Ponder is just no damn good. In fact, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s ever been a truly successful Puritan quarterback in the NFL. (Kurt Warner doesn\u2019t count because everyone knows he made a deal with Satan to destroy Trent Green\u2019s career.) But I\u2019ll guarantee you this much: That belt-buckling Christian Ponder is a damn sight better than the Blaine Gabbert Project that\u2019s inexplicably still underway in Jacksonville. MJD may be back but the Jags are going to set the standard for awfulloosity this year in the NFL. Eat the points and don\u2019t worry. Minnesota will win this game by a wide margin. <strong>Pick: Minnesota<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feschuk<\/strong>: Wow, I had no idea Minnesota was going to lose this game until you picked them as your inaugural Sure Thing. Makes sense though: Adrian Peterson is rushing back too quickly from yet another major injury and should be good for maybe five or six carries before he blows out his Achilles or falls down a well. <strong>Pick: Jacksonville<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Reid and Scott Feschuk are doing their weekly NFL picks again this season. To my surprise\/shock\/horror, they have the Minnesota-Jacksonville game as the &#8220;Sure Thing&#8221;. Fortunately, they disagree on which &#8220;sure thing&#8221; is really the &#8220;sure thing&#8221;: Jacksonville (plus 3.5) at Minnesota Reid: You ever notice that Christian Ponder\u2019s Christian name is Christian? Imagine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,57],"tags":[717,845,126,179],"class_list":["post-16821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-humour","tag-christianponder","tag-jacksonville","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4nj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25585,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821\/revisions\/25585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}