{"id":18667,"date":"2013-03-20T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T04:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=18667"},"modified":"2013-03-20T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T04:00:05","slug":"espn-com-slams-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2013\/03\/20\/espn-com-slams-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN.com Slams Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We realize that the thoughts of the mainstream media have zero impact on the outcome on the field.\u00a0 That said, <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/nflnation\/post\/_\/id\/74371\/espn-coms-nfl-pre-draft-power-rankings-2\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com put out their pre-draft power rankings<\/a> and there was no love sent in the direction of the NY Jets.\u00a0 The Seahawks, 49ers and Broncos were ranked 1, 2 and 3.\u00a0 The order in which they are ranked can be debated, but it is hard to debate the logic of those franchises being at the top of the class for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Where did the Jets end up?\u00a0 #31.\u00a0 The only team that ESPN ranked lower than the Jets is the Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/p>\n<p>The only way you can describe that ranking is with the word harsh.\u00a0 John Idzik has taken the fiscally responsible approach and ESPN is not impressed.\u00a0 Idzik will have to have a good draft in order to avoid being passed by the Jaguars.<\/p>\n<p>Rex Ryan is usually good for 6 wins based on defense alone.\u00a0 If the Jets offense can improve even slightly over last year (a big if), the Jets will be a middle of the pack team at worst.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us what you think about these <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/topic\/109992-espn-pre-draft-power-rankings\" target=\"_blank\">NFL power rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We realize that the thoughts of the mainstream media have zero impact on the outcome on the field.\u00a0 That said, ESPN.com put out their pre-draft power rankings and there was no love sent in the direction of the NY Jets.\u00a0 The Seahawks, 49ers and Broncos were ranked 1, 2 and 3.\u00a0 The order in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"category-power-rankings"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/topten.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-4R5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18669,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667\/revisions\/18669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}