{"id":26503,"date":"2014-06-26T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T05:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26503"},"modified":"2014-06-26T06:43:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T11:43:50","slug":"qotd-football-players-are-not-the-brightest-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/26\/qotd-football-players-are-not-the-brightest-people\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Football players are &#8220;not the brightest people&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Football is football. I mean, come on guys, we\u2019re talking about a bunch of football players,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not tough to learn an offense. At the end of the day, you have a formation, you have protection, you have a direction to run the ball and you have a route to run as a receiver. It\u2019s not that tough. If you can\u2019t learn an NFL offense, then obviously you shouldn\u2019t be there. \u2026 I\u2019m saying, we\u2019re not the brightest people, so therefore how hard can an NFL offense be?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Flacco, quoted by Sarah Ellison in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoreravens.com\/news\/article-1\/Late-For-Work-625-Joe-Flacco-Opens-Up-About-Relationship-With-Gary-Kubiak\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Late For Work 6\/25: Joe Flacco Opens Up About Relationship With Gary Kubiak&#8221;, <em>BaltimoreRavens.com<\/em><\/a>, 2014-06-25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football is football. I mean, come on guys, we\u2019re talking about a bunch of football players,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not tough to learn an offense. At the end of the day, you have a formation, you have protection, you have a direction to run the ball and you have a route to run as a [&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":[26,41],"tags":[910,179],"class_list":["post-26503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-quotations","tag-baltimore","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Tt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26503","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=26503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26508,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26503\/revisions\/26508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}