{"id":1423,"date":"2009-04-23T19:34:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T00:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/23\/super-bowl-contending-falcons\/"},"modified":"2011-01-11T07:26:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T12:26:07","slug":"super-bowl-contending-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/23\/super-bowl-contending-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl contending Falcons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so the Falcons traded for one of the best TE to play the game (best as in the past).  Not sure if I am happy about giving up a second round pick next year; second round picks can be starters if you are smart about your draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\" http:\/\/myespn.go.com\/blogs\/nflnation\/0-7-345\/Leaving-won-t-be-easy-for-Gonzalez.html\" target=\"new\">article<\/a> has me tickled pink \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTony Gonzalez said after his trade to Atlanta on Thursday that it is \u201csomewhat bittersweet\u201d to be traded to the Super Bowl contending Falcons away from the struggling Chiefs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously.  When have you read Falcons and Super Bowl contending in the same sentence?  Hold the door; don\u2019t jump to conclusions so quickly and temper the Falcons Super Bowl talk.<\/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=\"https:\/\/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>OK, so the Falcons traded for one of the best TE to play the game (best as in the past). Not sure if I am happy about giving up a second round pick next year; second round picks can be starters if you are smart about your draft picks. This article has me tickled pink &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/23\/super-bowl-contending-falcons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Super Bowl contending Falcons?<\/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=\"https:\/\/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-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3378,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}