{"id":1095,"date":"2007-12-30T14:09:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T18:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/12\/30\/atlantas-season-of-misery-almost-over\/"},"modified":"2007-12-30T14:09:25","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T18:09:25","slug":"atlantas-season-of-misery-almost-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/12\/30\/atlantas-season-of-misery-almost-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta&#8217;s season of misery almost over."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it so wrong to hope that the Falcons go out with a whimper today against Seattle?\u00a0 The reality is that the Falcons are in position to get the fourth overall pick in next year\u2019s draft.\u00a0 Right now they sit behind Miami, St. Louis, and the Jets, but win today and they may move in front of Oakland, Kansas City, and Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>Paint me not a fan, but as Dunn said, this is a lost season.\u00a0 Before the season started, I said I struggled to find more than five wins.\u00a0 Now that the season is almost in the books, I hope that I was over optimistic by a couple of wins.<\/p>\n<p>Go Seahawks?\u00a0 Not really, but the Falcons need all the help they can get to recover from this season of misery, and getting a top four pick would certainly help.<\/p>\n<p>If the Rams can manage to beat the Cardinals (not likely), the Jets can beat the Chiefs (a toss up), and Atlanta tanks against Seattle, the Falcons will be in position to grab the second overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>Happy days are just around the corner.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it so wrong to hope that the Falcons go out with a whimper today against Seattle?\u00a0 The reality is that the Falcons are in position to get the fourth overall pick in next year\u2019s draft.\u00a0 Right now they sit behind Miami, St. Louis, and the Jets, but win today and they may move in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/12\/30\/atlantas-season-of-misery-almost-over\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atlanta&#8217;s season of misery almost over.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}