{"id":1804,"date":"2009-10-26T07:34:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/26\/more-on-turner-slowing-down\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:23:09","slug":"more-on-turner-slowing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/26\/more-on-turner-slowing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Turner slowing down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does anyone know what is wrong with Turner?  Pat Yasinskas of the <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/nfcsouth\/post\/_\/id\/4356\/whatever-happened-to-michael-turner\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/nfcsouth\/post\/_\/id\/4356\/whatever-happened-to-michael-turner', 'NFC South Blog');\" target=\"new\">NFC South Blog<\/a> at ESPN goes into detail pointing out that without a running game, the Falcons are in trouble.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Turner and the running game haven\u2019t been looking fine and what happened Sunday against Dallas may have demonstrated there\u2019s a problem that\u2019s getting worse instead of better. Turner carried 18 times for 50 yards. That\u2019s a 2.8 average, which would translate into a 0.8 if this were a grade-point average.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tired legs?  He had a couple of big plays in preseason.  Undocumented injury?  At some point you would think that someone would come to Turner\u2019s defense and point out that he has some sort of problem.  Is he just spent after last year?<\/p>\n<p>If the problems with the running game and Turner can be sorted out, I hope the coaches figure out what is wrong in time to keep the Saints offense off the field this Monday night.<\/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>Does anyone know what is wrong with Turner? Pat Yasinskas of the NFC South Blog at ESPN goes into detail pointing out that without a running game, the Falcons are in trouble. But Turner and the running game haven\u2019t been looking fine and what happened Sunday against Dallas may have demonstrated there\u2019s a problem that\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/26\/more-on-turner-slowing-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on Turner slowing down<\/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":[12,29],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","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=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}