{"id":828,"date":"2001-12-16T17:11:24","date_gmt":"2001-12-16T17:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/?p=828"},"modified":"2001-12-16T17:11:24","modified_gmt":"2001-12-16T17:11:24","slug":"and-thats-why-they-play-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2001\/12\/and-thats-why-they-play-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"And that&#8217;s why they play the game&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up Jay Fiedler last week in my Fantasy League. I&#8217;ve been playing Griese, but he&#8217;s hurt, and Fiedler&#8217;s had comparable numbers so far, so it seemed a decent switch up, especially since I was forced into it.<br \/>\nFanball.com prognosticated for this week:  <i>Fiedler should pass for over 200 yards with at least one touchdown against San Francisco.<\/i><br \/>\nWanna know what he did:  149 passing yards, 0 TD passes, <b>3<\/b> interceptions (costs me points), sacked <b>6<\/b> times (costs me points) 33 rushing yards, and a <b>fumble<\/b> (costs me points)<br \/>\nNet score for this guy? -12 points.  I could have kept Griese on the roster and PLAYED him and even though he&#8217;s not playing, I&#8217;d have made 12 more points.<br \/>\nPunchline?  Doesn&#8217;t matter.  I&#8217;m in 3rd place, the guy I&#8217;m playing is in 4th, and he can&#8217;t pass me even if he beats me, so I&#8217;m in the playoffs regardless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up Jay Fiedler last week in my Fantasy League. I&#8217;ve been playing Griese, but he&#8217;s hurt, and Fiedler&#8217;s had comparable numbers so far, so it seemed a decent switch up, especially since I was forced into it. Fanball.com prognosticated for this week: Fiedler should pass for over 200 yards with at least one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2001\/12\/and-thats-why-they-play-the-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And that&#8217;s why they play the game&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-fanboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}