{"id":1425,"date":"2009-04-25T07:44:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T12:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/25\/stafford-goes-first\/"},"modified":"2011-01-11T07:25:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T12:25:32","slug":"stafford-goes-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/25\/stafford-goes-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Stafford goes first."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The funny thing about Stafford signing with the Lions, reportedly one of the richest contracts in NFL history, is that I thought he was not playing with a full deck.  I mean seriously, who wants to go to Detroit?  That franchise is a wreck that may take a miracle to rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to write an article about how Stafford\u2019s intelligence must be over rated.  After all, he did well on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/sports\/content\/sports\/uga\/stories\/2009\/03\/22\/matthew_stafford_wonderlic.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/sports\/content\/sports\/uga\/stories\/2009\/03\/22\/matthew_stafford_wonderlic.html', 'Wonderlic');\" target=\"new\">Wonderlic<\/a>, but he still wanted to go to Detroit?  Makes you wonder WTF is wrong with him?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After his dazzling pro day workout in Athens last week, word is now that the Bulldogs\u2019 quarterback \u2014 rated by many as the best quarterback in this year\u2019s NFL Draft \u2014 scored the highest score on the Wonderlic test of any other quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>Stafford reportedly scored 38.<\/p>\n<p>USC\u2019s Mark Sanchez scored 28 and Kansas State\u2019s Josh Freeman 27.<\/p>\n<p>The test, which measures problem-solving ability, features 50 questions and a 12-minute time limit.<\/p>\n<p>Though the test is rarely completed, the Wonderlic is typically regarded as a good way to measure a player\u2019s intelligence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now we know that not only is Stafford a smart guy, he is going to be incredibly wealthy.  Sounds like he is living the high life.<\/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>The funny thing about Stafford signing with the Lions, reportedly one of the richest contracts in NFL history, is that I thought he was not playing with a full deck. I mean seriously, who wants to go to Detroit? That franchise is a wreck that may take a miracle to rebuild. I was going to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/25\/stafford-goes-first\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stafford goes first.<\/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":[29,55],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-nfl","tag-uga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","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=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3377,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/3377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}