{"id":21629,"date":"2013-08-29T10:32:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T14:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=21629"},"modified":"2022-04-01T04:37:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T08:37:26","slug":"matt-simms-for-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2013\/08\/29\/matt-simms-for-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Simms For Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Simms has an opportunity tonight to lock down the #3 QB job for the New York Jets.\u00a0 The son of former Giants great Phil Simms will start the preseason finale against the Philadelphia Eagles.\u00a0 Mark Sanchez is out with an injured shoulder, Geno Smith isn&#8217;t expected to play and Greg McElroy is hurt as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">According to source, Greg McElroy re-injured his knee in practice this week, leading to Harrell signing. Matt Simms starting tomorrow. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NYJ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NYJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Costello (@BrianCoz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianCoz\/status\/372736239876571136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Simms, who played for Don Bosco Prep in NJ, has looked good this preseason.\u00a0 He has a strong arm and against the Jaguars he was 5 of 5 and looked like he was set to claim the 3rd QB job.\u00a0\u00a0 Recently signed <a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2013\/08\/28\/jets-sign-a-qb-graham-harrell\/\">Graham Harrell<\/a> is expected to back up Simms against the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets will have to make a decision shortly after the game.\u00a0 NFL rosters must be trimmed to 53 players by August 31st at 6pm.\u00a0 Based on his performance tonight, Matt Simms can stake a claim to one of those spots.<\/p>\n<p>New York Jets fans are discussing <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/topic\/111895-matt-simms-to-start-thursday\/\">Matt Simms<\/a> in our forum.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MattSimms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21630 aligncenter\" alt=\"Matt Simms\" src=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MattSimms.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MattSimms.jpg 675w, https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MattSimms-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MattSimms-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Simms has an opportunity tonight to lock down the #3 QB job for the New York Jets.\u00a0 The son of former Giants great Phil Simms will start the preseason finale against the Philadelphia Eagles.\u00a0 Mark Sanchez is out with an injured shoulder, Geno Smith isn&#8217;t expected to play and Greg McElroy is hurt as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21630,"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":[1337,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-camp-reports"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MattSimms.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-5CR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629","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=21629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21632,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629\/revisions\/21632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}