{"id":2713,"date":"2005-10-07T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2017-12-28T11:33:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T17:33:28","slug":"espn-columnist-does-not-see-shadow-predicts-early-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/07\/espn-columnist-does-not-see-shadow-predicts-early-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Columnist Does Not See Shadow, Predicts Early Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=whitlock\/051006\" target=\"_new\">for me<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>9. The 0-4 Green Bay Packers will win the NFC North.<\/p>\n<p>OK, the division might be the worst in the history of the league, but I envision the Packers going 8-4 or 9-3 the rest of the season. The Packers are not as bad as their winless record.<\/p>\n<p>Had the Packers huddled and taken their time before their final fourth-down play against the Carolina Panthers, Brett Favre and the Packers would&#8217;ve finished off their rally and upset the Panthers on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Packers will win their next three &#8212; vs. Saints, at Vikings, at Bengals &#8212; and finish the season on a five-game winning streak &#8212; at Bears, vs. Lions, at Ravens, vs. Bears and vs. Seahawks. In between those strings of victories, they&#8217;ll grab a win on &#8220;MNF&#8221; against the Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Packers still fire Mike Sherman after he leads them to a division crown? Probably.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Me, I will be happy if they just beat the Bears and will fall into ecstatic shock if they beat the Vikings.  Anything else is gravy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least for me: 9. The 0-4 Green Bay Packers will win the NFC North. OK, the division might be the worst in the history of the league, but I envision the Packers going 8-4 or 9-3 the rest of the season. The Packers are not as bad as their winless record. Had the Packers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19165,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/19165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}